The latest private equity deal in the UK — the biggest in more than a decade — raises an awkward question for investors in the London stock market. How can the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket chain be worth more to a consortium comprising Canadian pensioners and US buyout and real-estate investors than to the home crowd? It looks like the starkest ...

What’s harder? Spotting a unicorn in a dense forest or pulling one away from the cliff? Or, in less pictorial terms, venture capital or investing in promising but distressed assets? Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which built a sprawling consumer tech empire through lots of equity investments, will soon find out as it increases its stake in the online retailer Suning.com ...

Bloomberg State-run NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power generator, aims to take its renewables unit public to help fund a 2.5 trillion rupees ($34 billion) clean energy expansion, according to a company official with knowledge of the plans. The New Delhi-based producer wants to list its NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd unit in the next fiscal year, which begins in April 2022, ...