Bloomberg The worst has passed for oil prices, which are now too low to ensure investment in the new supplies needed during the rest of the decade, IHS Markit Ltd.’s Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin said. Crude futures, trading near $48 a barrel will rise next year to the “mid-$50 range,” Yergin said in an interview. The market is rebalancing ...

  Bloomberg Indian clothes maker T.R. Vijaya Kumar thinks it’s time for his country to take on Bangladesh, Vietnam and even China for leadership in the global apparel industry. He’s a second-generation manufacturer, who’s transformed his small family undershirt business in southern India into an apparel exporter of 1,700 employees and aims to double its sales by 2020. When it ...

  Bloomberg China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd., the country’s second-largest developer by market value listed in Hong Kong, said first-half profit jumped 21 percent on gains from property sales as the nation’s residential prices soared. Net income rose to HK$19.7 billion ($2.5 billion) from HK$16.3 billion a year earlier, the company said in a Hong Kong stock exchange filing. ...

  Bloomberg Thirteen Japanese nuclear reactors were constructed with steel from the same company used in a French power plant that’s under scrutiny for anomalies found in the reactor vessel’s structure. Six utilities used steel from Japan Casting & Forging Corp., they all said in separate statements. The steelmaker was identified by Japanese authorities last month as supplying steel to ...

  Bloomberg China reported it added about 43 million barrels of crude to its strategic reserves between the middle of 2015 and early this year, in a rare release of such data by the world’s second-biggest oil user. The statement posted on the website of the country’s National Bureau of Statistics is the first update the government has given on ...

  Bloomberg The global nickel market will discover the severity of the Philippines’ mining audit next Thursday as President Rodrigo Duterte’s government presents the findings of the checkup and announces support for communities affected by any further suspensions. Benchmark prices surged. The audit in the world’s largest mined nickel supplier has been completed after 16 teams fanned out across the ...

  Berlin / AFP Always wanted to know what it would be like to watch a TV talkshow in the studio? Or zoom in on a particular player in a Bundesliga game rather than see a wideshot of the field? The technology is there for such “live” 3D television experiences from the comfort of your home, according to the Fraunhofer ...

  AFP From curved televisions and futuristic virtual reality headsets to intelligent kitchens, Berlin’s mega consumer electronics show offers a mind-boggling array of the latest in high-tech gizmos. Here are a few of the most eye-catching gadgets at IFA: IT NOT ONLY WASHES AND DRIES This Panasonic washing machine also folds your laundry. The Japanese white goods maker said the ...

  AFP Microsoft is putting its machine brains into a Liebherr refrigerator. The US technology giant and Liebherr are collaborating on a new “SmartDeviceBox” that take the kitchen appliance beyond cooling comestibles to reminding people what they need at the market, Microsoft principal data scientist TJ Hazen said in a blog post. The box is an internet-connected module that fits ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. may bring at least $5 billion of its offshore cash back to the U.S. next year, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook suggested in an interview on Irish radio. “We provisioned several billion dollars for the U.S. for payment as soon as we repatriate it, and right now I would forecast that repatriation to occur next year,” ...