Bloomberg British consumers are starting to feel the pinch from a rally in global energy markets, with supplier Igloo saying it will hike prices. The cost of energy for a typical home buying natural gas and electricity will rise 12.1% from August 2, Igloo said on its website. The move follows a surge in the wholesale price of gas and ...

This is one of the most joyous weekends in the American calendar, high summer and the commemoration of the nation’s historic leap towards freedom from colonial dominion 245 years ago. The British, some readers may be surprised to learn, cherish no matching holiday to celebrate our deliverance from decades of funding the defense of those ungrateful folks. If Americans were ...

While the US, the United Kingdom and Russia are expected to sit high on any list of cyber nations, one surprise name also mixes with the best, highlighting the value of having solid allies over technical prowess. Malaysia came in eighth out of 194 states in this year’s Global Cybersecurity Index by the International Telecoms Union, a United Nations agency. ...

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, ...

Bloomberg India’s Cars24 Services Pvt is in talks with Yuri Milner’s DST Global and other investors for a funding round that could double the used-vehicle site’s value to $2 billion, a person familiar with the discussions said. India’s biggest online marketplace for pre-owned cars is set to raise $200 million to $250 million from existing backers including DST, which may ...

Bloomberg A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by the London School of Economics. An overwhelming 82% of respondents surveyed for the report ‘City of dreams no more, a year on: worklessness and active labour market policies in ...

Bloomberg The recent divergence between Asia’s investment-grade and riskier bonds is poised to continue, analysts say, as investors turn sour on Chinese developers. Yields for Asia’s high-yield dollar bonds rose 41 basis points in the second quarter, according to a Bloomberg Barclays index, versus a 5 basis-point decline for investment-grade debt. They’ve increased for six straight weeks, the longest stretch ...

Bloomberg Thailand won’t be able to meet its monthly vaccination target of 10 million doses as deliveries from AstraZeneca Plc, the backbone of its inoculation program, will be 40% to 50% fewer than expected because some supplies are allotted for export. AstraZeneca will deliver 5 million to 6 million doses per month for use in Thailand starting in July because ...