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Chad army pushes out ‘enemy forces’ in north

Bloomberg Chad’s army dislodged what it described as enemy fighters from a town near its northern border with Libya after heavy fighting in a conflict the government has so far given few details about. The central African nation’s announcement that the army was successful in fighting insurgents in the town of Miski came a week after President Idriss Deby replaced ...

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Corporate America’s debt boom looks like a bust for economy

Bloomberg Despite strong incentives in the Republican tax plan for American executives to expand, invest and ultimately boost the US economy’s growth potential, a lot of the debt companies are issuing appears to be motivated by something else. Non-financial corporate debt stands at 45.6 percent of gross domestic product, near the highest in post-war record keeping. Despite that, non-residential investment ...

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California wildfires: PG&E reports second failure in power-line

Bloomberg PG&E Corp may be poised for further volatility on Monday after disclosing a second power-line failure on the morning that California’s deadliest fire began. A circuit in Concow, Butte County, failed at about 6:45 am on November 8, the utility said in a filing to the state’s Public Utilities Commission. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known ...

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