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Trump officials still pushing for a coal bailout, says regulator

Bloomberg High ranking officials in the Trump administration are still pushing to bail out money-losing coal plants, more than a year after an earlier proposal to revive the industry failed. Any new effort to save coal plants may find a friend in Kentucky Republican Neil Chatterjee, now chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the very agency that rejected the ...

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East Capital says its $3.4bn deal is just the beginning

Bloomberg East Capital Group, a Swedish asset manager that specialises in emerging markets, is looking for more takeover targets after buying a $3.4 billion manager in its local market. The Monyx Asset Management AB purchase, which was closed this month, reflects a consolidation trend in the industry as smaller managers struggle, according to East Capital Chairman Peter Elam Hakansson, who ...

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India scraps special status for Kashmir, escalating tensions

Bloomberg India has revoked the special constitutional status of Kashmir in a move that’s drawn protests in parliament and risks worsening its already fraught security relationship with rival Pakistan in the disputed region. It took Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government just a couple of hours to erase seven decades of autonomous state government in Kashmir, which analysts say is aimed ...

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