Bloomberg Tasmania will invest $33 million to build a renewable hydrogen industry, as the island state plots a course to commercial exports of the clean fuel by 2030. Australia’s smallest state seeks to benefit from its abundance of hydropower generation and the falling cost of large-scale production from renewables to make emissions-free hydrogen for export to Asia. Hydrogen projects are …

Bloomberg European stocks surged and US equity futures jumped as expectations grow that policy makers and governments will act to guard against the economic threat of the coronavirus. Treasuries were steady as the number of infections continued to grow. Futures on the S&P 500 Index had fluctuated at the start of the day after the underlying gauge climbed the most …

Bloomberg As foreign investors exit Philippine equities at a record pace amid the sell-off brought on by the coronavirus, some domestic fund managers are scooping up blue-chip bargains. Local stock valuations have become too attractive to pass up, according to Helen Oleta, head of trading at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp, and Robert Ramos, chief investment officer at East West Banking …