Bloomberg Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc sold 128.5 billion yen ($1.13 billion) in bonds, taking advantage of Japan’s ultra-low borrowing costs. The US company priced a multi-part debt offering on Friday, marking its fourth bond deal in the Japanese currency in as many years. With a coupon of 0.203%, the US company priced its 5-year debt at a rate ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The European Commission hopes to attract more GCC investors and financial institutions to fund its €800 billion NextGenerationEU programme, than the current one percent, said Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Budget and Administration. NextGenerationEU is a temporary recovery instrument to help Europe repair the immediate economic and social damage brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

  Bloomberg The conglomerate led by Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, announced plans to invest $76 billion towards clean energy projects, dwarfing an earlier commitment of $10 billion by the world’s biggest fossil-fuel billionaire. Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by Ambani, has signed pacts with the state government of Gujarat for a total investment of 5.96 trillion rupees ($81 billion), according ...