Bloomberg Sunoco LP’s bondholders are creating an obstacle for a $3.3 billion deal struck by the company to sell more than 1,100 gas stations and convenience stores to 7-Eleven Inc. A group of creditors has told the company it intends to oppose Sunoco’s attempt to change the terms of the credit pact governing about $1.6 billion of bonds — a …

Bloomberg As money rushes into China’s fledgling biotechnology sector, Eli Lilly & Co. and other foreign drugmakers are scaling back. Eli Lilly, along with GlaxoSmithKline Plc, announced plans the past few months to cut research teams in China, after Novartis AG shuttered a biotech research unit there a year ago. “This closure comes after careful study and consideration, and is …

Bloomberg The US has been disappointed this year at China’s lack of progress in pursuing market-oriented reforms, said a senior administration official, ratcheting up the pressure on the world’s second-largest economy ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit there next month. While China made progress in previous decades toward market pricing and reducing the number of state-owned enterprises, the US is …