Bloomberg India is witnessing a listless growth in electricity demand, possibly signalling more slowdown in Asia’s third-largest economy. Electricity requirement from distribution utilities in February rose 1.3 percent from a year earlier and barely changed from January’s 1.1 percent, the weakest growth in two years, according to the power ministry’s Central Electricity Authority. Data for power generation, a proxy for ...

Bloomberg Publicis Groupe SA agreed to buy digital marketing firm Epsilon from Alliance Data Systems Corp. for $4.4 billion in cash, propelling the French advertising group further beyond a weakening conventional ad business in its biggest takeover yet. Epsilon’s services span loyalty programs to email marketing and its Conversant unit collects consumer data including transactions, location and web activity. The ...

Bloomberg For all the ink spilled over climate change and the global energy transition, the world’s biggest energy companies are focusing on where it all began: American oil. Chevron Corp.’s $33 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.will make the US company the largest producer in the dusty plains of the Permian Basin by giving it control of an oil-rich area ...