After European governments sought to do “whatever it takes” to protect people from the economic effects of pandemic lockdowns, politicians are once again taking out their checkbooks to help consumers — this time to ride out a post-reopening jump in energy prices. France will hand out 580 million euros ($682 million) to help poor households cope with rising costs ahead ...

Bloomberg Naturgy Energy Group SA’s board said that IFM Global Infrastructure’s 4.9 billion-euro ($5.8 billion) bid for almost a quarter of the Spanish utility is “reasonable.” “From a purely financial point of view and in the current circumstances, the price of the offer is reasonable,” the company said in a regulatory filing. IFM initially offered 23 euros a share for ...

One of the biggest geopolitical developments of the last two years has been the quiet decline of Huawei Technologies Co In 2019, the Chinese telecommunications behemoth was racing toward dominance of the world’s 5G networks. It was a symbol of Beijing’s apparent rise to technological primacy. Today, however, Huawei isn’t thinking about supremacy: “Our aim is to survive,” its chairman ...