Bloomberg State-run miner Coal India Ltd warned production of the fuel may be hampered, risking new threats to the nation’s energy supply, if the company isn’t able to raise prices. The world’s largest coal producer is facing cost pressures from a looming rise in salaries and on higher prices of diesel used to power mine equipment. Some of the ...

  Bloomberg The renewable energy arm of China Resources Power Holdings Co has picked banks including ABC International Holdings Ltd and China International Capital Corp for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter. The power generation company’s unit is also working with HSBC Holdings Plc and Morgan Stanley on a proposed first-time share ...

  Bloomberg Indian Oil Corp Ltd, the country’s biggest oil refiner and a large user of hydrogen, expects prices of the cleanest form of the fuel to halve after the government scrapped fees on wheeling renewable power across the country. The offer to waive transmission charges on green energy from one state to the other can reduce costs by as ...

  China’s leaders could be forgiven for gloating a little next week, the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing. Their nation was arguably the biggest winner from Sino-American rapprochement. But it’s in danger of forgetting what made that victory possible. In February 1972, the country on which Nixon bet the equivalent of a geopolitical house was ...

Hong Kong officials have typically reacted with nonchalance to questions about the city’s record population exodus. Financial flows show the territory retains its hub status, business confidence is unshaken, those departing are denying themselves a role in a prosperous future. Or so some of the familiar arguments run. The Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC) staffing struggles offer a different perspective. ...

  The Ukraine crisis may yet produce the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Or it may produce some strange new hybrid of cyberattacks, “little green men” and maskirovka (military deception) that won’t quite match our preconceived notion of war. Or — though this now seems the lowest-probability scenario — President Vladimir Putin may turn out to be Russia’s answer ...

  The latest Republican objection to Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to the US Federal Reserve concerns a possible conflict of interest she had while serving on the board of a financial technology company. Far more disturbing — and far more justifiable as an objection — are her ideas about how to use the Fed to fight climate change. Using monetary ...

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc is making additional cuts to its international flight plans this summer because of ongoing delays in deliveries of Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners, a setback for the carrier just as global travel is expected to begin recovering from a pandemic slump. The airline will delay until November from June the start of a flight between ...

  Bloomberg Rice Krispies are the latest victim of US supply-chain troubles. Shoppers around the country have taken to social media to probe the absence of the Kellogg Co cereal brand from their grocery-store shelves. The company confirmed the problems, citing a temporary shortage due to manufacturing constraints. “We do not have an estimated date on when it will be ...

Bloomberg Steve Dickson, who led the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through a tumultuous period following fatal crashes of Boeing Co’s 737 Max and the Covid-19 pandemic, is stepping down from the agency at the end of March. Dickson informed FAA’s employees in an email of his plan to depart less than three years into his five-year term. He called ...