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Trump wins easier path to undo ‘clean power plan’

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump won a court ruling making it easier for him to rescind the Clean Power Plan, his predecessor’s program for weaning American power producers off of coal and other fossil fuels. The US Court of Appeals in Washington put a 26-state lawsuit challenging the plan on hold for 60 days without deciding whether the initiative is ...

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Spain shows renewed momentum in first quarter

  Bloomberg The Spanish economy showed signs of renewed momentum in the first quarter with growth accelerating faster than expected. Output grew 0.8 percent in the three months through March, the National Statistics Office said in a preliminary report. That compares with 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter and beats the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists predicting ...

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IBM pay plan narrowly passes as 46% investors oppose move

  Bloomberg IBM’s compensation plan for top executives drew record shareholder opposition after the board boosted Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty’s pay package over 60 percent last year. About 46 percent of the votes cast at the April 25 annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, went against the board’s pay plan for top bosses, according to a regulatory filing. That’s IBM’s ...

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