Bloomberg KKR & Co agreed to acquire French solar and biomass power producer Albioma SA in a deal valued at about 1.6 billion euros ($1.7 billion), in the latest sign of investor demand for renewable energy assets. The buyout firm offered 50 euros per Albioma share, plus a cash dividend of 84 cents, according to a statement, confirming an ...

Bloomberg Russia halted gas flows to Poland and Bulgaria in a major escalation, and said it will keep supplies switched off until the two countries agree to Moscow’s demands to pay for the fuel in rubles. European gas prices surged 20% on Russia’s sudden move to turn its vast energy resources into a weapon against Ukraine’s allies. But prices later ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is failing so spectacularly, it’s making him even more dangerous. Running out of ways to de-escalate while saving face, he appears to think that he has no choice but to escalate. What will that look like? His problem is that his failures are becoming too obvious to hide even for Russia’s propaganda machine. He attacked Ukraine ...

Forget the basement window. Boeing Co has somehow managed to fall out of a dungeon. Some three years after a second Boeing 737 Max crashed and prompted a worldwide grounding of the best-selling jet, not a quarter has passed without some kind of fresh bad news out of the planemaker. The release of first-quarter results was no exception. Boeing burned ...

  The green energy revolution is making greater progress than expected. Solar and wind power have seen exponential cost declines, and electric vehicles seem to be a market winner. That’s all good news, but improving green energy is not the same as addressing climate change. There is good chance that even optimistic projections for green energy will come true — ...

  Any doubt that the Bank of Japan is comfortable with a weak yen should now be eliminated. The central bank is effectively doubling down on the trademark super-easy monetary stance it began developing decades ago — just as the Federal Reserve and its peers become more aggressive in raising rates. In a statement after its policy meeting, the BOJ ...

Bloomberg J Sainsbury Plc said profit will fall this year as normal shopping habits return following the end of lockdowns and as shoppers feel squeezed by the higher cost of living. The supermarket chain forecast underlying profit before tax of 630 million pounds ($788 million) to 690 million pounds in the year through March, citing “significant external pressures and uncertainties.” ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE has agreed on a partnership with Italy’s ITA Airways that will see the two companies work together towards eventual deployment of the planemaker’s CityAirbus NextGen flying taxi in the country. A memorandum of understanding details cooperation in areas including recruitment of local partners, identification of markets and the creation of pilot projects, the companies said in ...

Bloomberg Air New Zealand will move its head office to a new campus at Auckland Airport, vacating its central city site to reduce costs and get all staff at a single location. The airline has approved in-principle a project to centralise its Auckland workforce at a refurbished airport campus by 2024, it said. It will also proceed with construction of ...

  Bloomberg Aerospace and defense giant Raytheon Technologies Corp cut its 2022 sales forecast and warned of potential supplier constraints as it ends commercial ties with Russian customers and a titanium supplier. “We’re done in Russia. Full stop,” Raytheon’s Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes said of the aerospace and defense conglomerate’s dealings with Russia in the wake of the nation’s ...