There’s one surprise entrant in the group of oil companies announcing plans this year for how they’ll reduce emissions: PetroChina Co. China’s oil companies, unlike their peers in the US and particularly Europe, don’t traditionally treat climate targets as a major issue. Beijing, after all, isn’t even promising to hit its emissions peak until 2030. The large fund managers that ...

A spate of looting in Chicago in mid-August should remind us that the problem of concentrated urban poverty still exists in the US. While looting is often an outgrowth of protests — not only in big cities like Chicago, but also more recently in places such as Kenosha, Wisconsin — it also can represent a response to a sense of ...

Bloomberg Vodafone Group Plc’s India unit said it plans to raise as much as 250 billion rupees ($3.4 billion) selling shares, debt to shore up its finances as it takes on bigger rivals Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd, which have been luring subscribers from the struggling No. 3 wireless carrier. The board of Vodafone Idea Ltd approved ...