Bloomberg Mexico has fast-tracked measures granting more authority to the state utility at the expense of clean energy companies, ignoring regulator and industry concerns over the economic and environmental impacts of the new measures. The proposal by the Energy Ministry was approved and published in Mexico’s official gazette. It comes after the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement, known as Conamer, ...

For the hotel chef who can’t afford his nine prescriptions, losing a job could be a matter of life and death. Even among the employed, fear of what’s around the corner is almost as paralysing. It’s enough to put the minor inconveniences of working from home — the unrealistic homeschooling curricula, the crick in your lower back, the maddeningly slow ...

When research firm GlobalData surveyed Americans on which stores they were most looking forward to visiting once the Covid-19 pandemic subsided, one household name came out near the bottom, and well below its department-store peers: JC Penney. That helps to explain the news that the retailer — which began life in 1902 as a store called The Golden Rule — ...