Bloomberg Forget Asian hunger for energy or where liquefied natural gas (LNG) costs the most, at the moment it’s all about tanker rates. Northwest Europe has seen a boom in LNG imports this month, with cargoes arriving from atypical sources including Peru and Egypt, while the US and Russia are also sending tankers into the most liquid gas market outside ...

Bloomberg Steelmakers in China and the rest of the world need to do more to reduce overcapacity, according to Guido Kerkhoff, CEO chief executive officer of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp AG. While China made good progress in curbing over-production, there’s room for even more cuts, Kerkhoff said. China has reshaped industry in past three years by closing plants, tightening environmental controls and ...

Bloomberg Chinese firms combating tight funding conditions are bracing for the next shoe to drop: a record amount of perpetual bonds up for redemption. Some 48.9 billion yuan ($7 billion) of perpetual notes will have first call dates this quarter, which means they either have to repay the debt or be forced to increase interest rates by as much as ...