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Sasol to sell 30% Mozambique gas pipe stake for $361m

Bloomberg Sasol Ltd agreed to sell a 30% stake in a natural gas pipeline running from Mozambique to South Africa for as much as 5.1 billion rand ($361 million) in order to pay down debt. The deal rounds out an accelerated asset-sale program that has helped Sasol reduce borrowings that ballooned amid cost overruns at a giant US chemicals project ...

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Mexican power plants boost dirty fuel oil use

Bloomberg Fuel that is so dirty that the global shipping industry banned its use last year is being burned at the highest level in three years in Mexican power plants. With the global shipping industry shunning sulfurous fuel oil to curb emissions, storage tanks in Mexico are overflowing with the stuff. The solution for Mexico is to push more of ...

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Marathon plans $10b buyback after Speedway sale

Bloomberg Marathon Petroleum plans to repurchase as much as $10 billion of stock after the US oil refiner completed the sale of its Speedway fuel retail chain. The plan starts with a cash tender offer to buy as much as $4 billion of shares, or about 10% of its current market value, the company said. The repurchase would be the ...

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Philippine Air mulls Chapter 11, in talks to reduce its fleet

Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc is in talks with plane lessors about reducing its fleet size and has told them it’s considering a Chapter 11 filing in the US to carry out a restructuring, according to people familiar with the plan. The airline could return at least two Airbus SE A350s to lessors and four of the 10 Boeing Co. 777s ...

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Go Air seeks approval for $490m India IPO

Bloomberg Go Airlines India Ltd, a no-frills carrier controlled by the Wadia Group, has sought approval from India’s markets regulator to raise as much as 36 billion rupees ($490 million) through an initial public offering. The company may consider a pre-IPO share issue of as much as 15 billion rupees, the airline said in its prospectus, adding the IPO size ...

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Delta to require ‘that new hires be vaccinated against Covid-19’

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc will require that new hires be vaccinated against Covid-19, aiming to protect employees and customers as demand for domestic air travel continues to climb. The carrier has “made great progress to achieve herd immunity,” a trajectory it wants to maintain with the new standard, Delta said. Vaccination isn’t required for current workers, though more than ...

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Boeing jumps after FAA clears repair plan for return of 737 Max

Bloomberg Boeing Co jumped after regulators signed off on repairs that would end a temporary grounding of newer 737 Max models, clearing the way for the planemaker to resume deliveries of a jetliner crucial to its financial turnaround. The planemaker sent two service bulletins to 737 Max operators, providing instructions to repair a flight-deck electrical issue that sidelined 106 Max ...

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Vietnamese agency seeks airport in disputed island

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority is proposing the construction of an airport in the disputed Spratly Islands, Thanh Nien newspaper reported. The aviation agency seeks to include a Spratlys airport in the transport ministry’s 2021-2030 master plan, Thanh Nien reported, citing the proposal sent to the ministry. The aviation agency’s May 10 proposal also includes airports on non-disputed islands of ...

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Canada Goose falls on spending plans

Bloomberg Parka maker Canada Goose Holdings Inc struck an upbeat tone for the coming year, with plans to add 10 stores, launch a footwear line and spend more on marketing, all while forecasting record revenue. With no tourism recovery in sight and spending plans putting pressure on margins, investors flinched. The Toronto-based company reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ forecasts, ...

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China tech giants bet $19bn on global electric car frenzy

Bloomberg China is shaping up to be the first real test of Big Tech’s ambitions in the world of carmaking, with giants from Huawei Technologies Co to Baidu Inc plowing almost $19 billion into electric and self-driving vehicle ventures widely seen as the future of transport. While Apple Inc has long had plans for its own car and Alphabet Inc ...

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