Bloomberg China, the driver of global demand, is forecast to become the world’s largest gas-buying country with net imports approaching the level of the European Union by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency’s the World Energy Outlook. China already overtook South Korea as second-largest LNG importer last year and is on track to surpass Japan. By 2040, it will ...

Bloomberg The surprise resignation of an Indian tech billionaire has pulled corporate India deeper into the #MeToo firestorm that’s been sweeping through the American business community for more than a year. Walmart Inc. announced that Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal was leaving the company after an independent probe into allegations of assault. While Bansal denies any wrongdoing and the investigators didn’t ...

Bloomberg A glut of sugar from India, the world’s second-largest producer, has hit the London exchange as traders sold the sweetener to settle the expiration of December futures. ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. took delivery of about 350,000 metric tons of white sugar, with Singapore-based trader Wilmar International Ltd. selling the majority, said people familiar with the process, who asked not ...