Bloomberg Nigeria aims to raise an initial $10 billion in funding to implement its energy transition plan ahead of COP27 climate talks later this year, the country’s vice president said. Africa’s most populous country needs at least an additional $10 billion a year and a total $410 billion to deliver on its net-zero targets by 2060, Vice President Yemi ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s steel consumption should double within the next 10 years thanks to “gigantic opportunities” and a need to build more infrastructure in Latin America’s biggest economy, said ArcelorMittal SA’s executive in Brazil. Demand for the industrial metal will potentially grow due to the need to build more housing, renewable energy projects, ports as well as oil-and-gas assets, especially ...

  Bloomberg India’s Avaada Group signed an initial pact to invest 400 billion rupees ($5 billion) in a green ammonia project in the country’s northern state of Rajasthan, the company said. The renewable energy producer plans to build a 1 million ton-a-year green ammonia facility in the solar energy-endowed province, creating direct employment for 3,500 people, Avaada said in an ...

  Bloomberg PetroChina Co. posted its best-ever first-half earnings as the nation’s top oil and gas driller benefited from soaring global energy prices, and said that government stimulus is starting to lift Chinese oil demand. The firm reported 82.39 billion yuan ($12 billion) in net income for the first half of the year, up 55% from the same period in ...

  Bloomberg Venezuela is in talks with the global energy giant Siemens Energy AG to repair power plants as part of a government plan to rebuild a crumbling electricity grid plagued by constant blackouts and a lack of maintenance. Siemens is working with the government on potential contracts aimed at repairing gas- and diesel-burning generation facilities that serve the capital, ...

China’s central bank protests too much. Beijing is wary of overdoing its efforts to shore up the troubled financial system and faltering economy, but continues to be pushed into rolling out new measures. Fresh steps are announced almost daily, though many are modest in scope. China faces at least another year of lackluster expansion, and global growth will endure significant ...

Credit Suisse Group AG’s poaching of Dixit Joshi from Deutsche Bank AG to become its new chief finance officer means the Swiss bank now has outsiders in three top executive roles. They all have plenty of experience fixing problems in their former roles. The new leadership team should have the cool ruthlessness to make unbiased decisions about what Credit Suisse ...

  Every week, the people who trade electricity in the UK get to quiz the managers of the national grid for an hour. The conference call, which anyone can monitor, offers an insight into what the men and women on the front line of the power market are worried about. Listening to them is getting scarier by the week — ...

  The United States government will find out soon enough what “moral hazard” means. Clearly it does not know already, or President Joe Biden would not have announced that his administration would forgive US student debt worth around 1.6% of GDP. It’s natural to ask, as critics have, whether the new policy is fair. Should regular taxpayers subsidise those who ...

  Bloomberg Air New Zealand posted its third straight annual loss but indicated the worst is over and it expects earnings to improve now that borders have reopened. The Auckland-based airline announced a loss before significant items and tax of NZ$725 million ($450 million) for the year ended on June 30 compared with a NZ$444 million loss a year earlier. ...