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California avoids blackouts, braces for another day of heat

Bloomberg California narrowly averted another round of rotating blackouts after officials made desperate pleas to conserve power as reserves falls below critical levels during a record breaking heat wave. The state’s grid operator gave the all-clear signal shortly before 9 pm local time as temperatures fall after sundown. Earlier in the evening, officials declared a stage-two grid emergency — one ...

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China pledges to expand its stock connect programme

Bloomberg Chinese regulators vowed to accelerate the opening up of its capital markets and deepen reforms to attract more foreign investors. The regulator will expand the scope of investments allowed in the stock connect program link with Hong Kong, and allow foreign investors to trade more commodities futures products, China Securities Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai said at the ...

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Massive swings in options-overrun stocks leave manager baffled

Bloomberg Nancy Tengler has managed money for 35 years. She’s confident in her positions. When one of her companies reports good earnings, she expects it to go up. But nothing prepared her for what happened on Aug. 26 in Salesforce.com Inc., when its quarterly results ignited a paroxysm of buying that pushed the shares 26% higher in a day. Tengler’s ...

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