Bloomberg Electric vehicles (EV) may be commonplace sooner than most people think, and that could signal a bonanza for Chilean lithium producer Soc. Quimica y Minera de Chile SA. Larrain Vial, Chile’s largest brokerage firm, sees global EV penetration at almost 21 percent by 2025, well above the market consensus of 8 percent to 20 percent, Alexander Varschavsky, a senior …

Bloomberg Cracking down on fossil fuels could actually boost profits for the world’s biggest oil companies, though the industry must shift toward cleaner fuels or be left behind by investors, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Major producers including Exxon Mobil Corp., BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc can slash carbon emissions and still see “materially higher” returns on …

Bloomberg Singapore home prices may rise as much as 10 percent by the end of next year and are on track to double by 2030 as faster income growth overpowers recent property curbs and higher interest rates, according to according to Morgan Stanley. Home prices rose in four of the five previous rate hike cycles, Morgan Stanley analysts said in …