Bloomberg The itch is back for Paul Mead. After almost a decade investing in vineyards and startups in his native New Zealand, the former Barclays Plc and Enron Corp trader wants to return to the power market. What’s luring Mead is the realisation that efforts to slow global warming through renewable energy and electrification are creating new ways to make ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co and a Vietnamese company signed a memorandum of understanding to develop an LNG power plant near Ho Chi Minh City. The signing between GE and EVN Genco3 took place during an event with President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien in Hanoi. O’Brien, in Vietnam for a visit which includes meetings with government officials and ...

As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boasted in a tweet in October, he will be leaving behind a small counterterrorism force. It’s tempting to view the development with a sense of relief. A full withdrawal from Afghanistan, or ...