Bloomberg The UK government will probably wait until March to announce measures to help consumers facing record bills amid the nation’s worst energy crisis in decades. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to give an outlook for the economy and public finances in his Spring Statement on March 23. It would be “unusual” for any aid to be announced by ...

  What should be an ordinary commercial dispute between Amazon.com Inc and the founders of a near-bankrupt retailer is shining a harsh light on the quality of legal and regulatory protection investors actually receive in India. The long drawn-out saga has thrown up two questions for prospective investors, or those who already have business interests in India. First, what does ...

Some things just don’t last long. On January 19, consumer goods giant Unilever Plc walked away from a deal that came to light just over the weekend. It declined to increase its 50 billion-pound ($68.2 billion) proposal to buy GlaxoSmithKline’s Plc’s consumer health arm. Citing financial discipline is an elegant way for Chief Executive Officer Alan Jope to extract himself ...