Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC’s average daily exports to key foreign buyers so far in April fell to lowest in three months, as warmer weather and lower spot prices started to lure European clients away from Russian gas. The gas giant exported an average of 407 million cubic meters a day to countries outside the former Soviet Union in the first 15 ...

  Bloomberg Jeep, the iconic American SUV brand, wants to convince the world it’s going green, even if it doesn’t yet have the electric vehicles to show it. The itinerary of Christian Meunier, the global head of Jeep, shows the two worlds the brand is straddling. For a few days, he was off-roading in Moab, Utah, in electric concept versions ...

Russia has invaded and devastated Ukraine without the smallest provocation. Most North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) nations, led thank goodness by the US — two years ago, we could have expected nothing from the White House — join in condemning President Vladimir Putin’s aggression. Some are supplying military aid. Yet there is nothing like unanimity in Europe, never mind elsewhere, ...

California has become the focus of a battle over how companies should address the lack of diversity on their boards: Should they actively seek out directors who aren’t White males, or should they simply seek to treat all candidates equally? A Superior Court judge has ruled in favour of the latter approach, declaring unconstitutional a law requiring publicly traded companies ...

  W Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel “The Painted Veil” features a harrowing description of a cholera outbreak in a provincial Chinese city. “The great city lay in terror; and death, sudden and ruthless, hurried through its tortuous streets … The people were dying at the rate of a hundred a day, and hardly any of those who were attacked by ...

  Life isn’t getting easier for the Federal Reserve. US inflation remains way above target, supply blockages show no sign of easing, the labour market is stretched — and the pressure on prices continues to build. Many investors are expecting a faster pace of tightening from the Fed; but overdoing it risks pushing the economy into recession. Striking the right ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc is calling back its workers in Shanghai to prepare for the initial resumption of production as soon as next week, after a weeks-long suspension because of the city’s strict lockdown to contain the Covid outbreak, people familiar with the matter said. The electric vehicle pioneer told some employees to enter a so-called “closed-loop” production system on April ...

  Bloomberg DiDi Global Inc will hold an extraordinary general meeting on May 23 to vote on delisting its shares from the New York Stock Exchange, a sign the ride-hailing giant is heeding Beijing’s call to address concerns about how its data is handled abroad. The company said in statement it won’t apply to sell shares on any other stock ...

  Bloomberg Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd is considering listing a special purpose acquisition company in Singapore that could raise as much as S$200 million ($147 million), according to people familiar with the matter. The Malaysian independent oil and gas explorer has held talks with potential advisers on the potential Spac initial public offering, said the people, who asked not to be ...

  Bloomberg A group of investors led by BlackRock Real Assets and Mubadala Investment Co infused 40 billion rupees ($525 million) into the renewable energy unit of Tata Power Co, the Mumbai-based company said. The investor group will get about 10.53% stake in Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd for the funds injected through equity and compulsorily convertible instruments, Tata Power ...