Bloomberg Source Energy Services Ltd., Canada’s largest distributor of fracking sand, is seeking to raise C$175 million ($130 million) in an initial public offering, reviving the deal after it was postponed last month as oil prices fell, according to people familiar with the sale. The Calgary-based company plans to sell the shares at C$10.50 apiece, down from the previous …

  Bloomberg The scent of doom is returning to China’s local government bond market. S&P Global Ratings pulled the trigger on the first ever downgrade of a Chinese local-government financing vehicle, citing the city in eastern Jiangsu province’s high debt burden. Traders and analysts are uneasy as well, with 18 of 29 polled in a Bloomberg News survey saying they’d …

  Bloomberg Jonathan Tepper, the founder of a London-based research firm who a year ago warned that Australia had one of the biggest housing bubbles in history, has attacked regulators for acting too late to cool the market as they ignored their own warning signs and were hostile to suggestions property was too expensive, according to the Weekend Australian. The …