Bloomberg Power prices for Monday evening in the UK surged to the highest in a month as supplies are poised to drop with very little wind forecast. The contract for the hour through 6 p.m. London time jumped to $1,589 a megawatt-hour, the highest since December 16 on the N2EX exchange. At the same time, wind output is forecast ...

  GlaxoSmithKline Plc is right to snub Unilever Plc’s 50 billion-pound ($68 billion) proposal to buy the UK drugmaker’s consumer healthcare arm. Unilever’s offer may be in the ballpark, but the consumer-goods giant can justify stretching further — and could easily be forced to. The asset is a unique business with scale and strong brands, including Panadol painkillers and Sensodyne ...

Over the years, as social media companies gorged themselves on the data of billions of people to fuel vast profits, the information flow never went the other way. Now the tables are turning. One of the most promising pieces of legislation in Congress tackling tech giants’ undue influence, out of reportedly 30 or so bills, would force such firms to ...