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PG&E creditor group pushing to scuttle $31b restructuring plan

Bloomberg A group of creditors angling for control of PG&E Corp. is pushing to scuttle the bankrupt utility’s $31 billion restructuring plan. An ad hoc committee of unsecured lenders filed a motion to terminate the period of exclusivity that PG&E has to file a plan for emerging from Chapter 11, according to a court filing. That period ends on September ...

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Bristol-Myers agrees to divest Celgene’s drug to close deal

Bloomberg Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. agreed to divest one of Celgene Corp.’s most lucrative drugs in order to close their planned $74 billion merger. Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, Bristol-Myers will sell off the psoriasis pill Otezla to appease antitrust regulators’ concerns, the company said in a statement. Bristol- Myers shares fell 7.6 percent to $45.57 in New ...

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Khamenei scorns talks after being sanctioned by Trump

Bloomberg Iran’s supreme leader scorned the idea of negotiations to ease his country’s tense standoff with the US in his first comments since being sanctioned by Donald Trump. “If we agree in negotiations to their demands, they will make the nation miserable,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, arguing Washington was attempting to strip Iran of its economic and defense capabilities. “And ...

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