Bloomberg UBS Group AG is weighing acquisitions and joint-ventures for its asset management business to help it compete with larger rivals, people with knowledge of the matter said. Targets may include UK and US asset managers focussed on retail clients and specialised asset managers in areas such as real estate, the people said, asking not to be identified because the …

Bloomberg India sought to defuse growing tensions with its central bank following reports that the government had cited a never-used legal provision in trying to resolve disagreements with the monetary authority. The Finance Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday it respects the autonomy of the Reserve Bank of India. That was after news broke that government officials had written …

Bloomberg Fears of a prolonged market downturn, slowing international sales, stepped-up competition in the US and flat-out confusion about how Amazon.com Inc. makes money are all reasons behind the company’s dizzying 25 percent drop in value from its September high. The world’s largest online retailer had been an investor darling, with shares more than doubling over the past two years …

Bloomberg HNA Group Co. has been trying for months to offload passenger planes it ordered from Airbus SE, according to people familiar with the matter, as the indebted airline-turned-glo-bal acquirer wrestles with liquidity challenges. The Chinese group asked the leasing arms of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Minsheng Banking Corp., amo-ng others, to take over at …

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is paying the price of chasing market share in its own backyard as the cost of integrating jets from collapsed rival Air Berlin Plc weighs on earnings. Lufthansa shares fell 9.5 percent, the biggest intraday drop in more than 2 years, after the German carrier’s latest results missed analyst estimates, forcing it to trim expansion plans …

Bloomberg Once again, the world is transfixed with an undersea search to solve the mystery of why an airliner plunged into the ocean. With images of the years-long unsuccessful search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 still fresh, the Indonesian government has dispatched 34 boats and more than 800 military and civilian personnel in search of a Lion Air plane that …

Bloomberg Oil slid to a two-month low as escalating US-China trade tensions imperiled global growth at a time when American crude inventories are swelling. Futures declined as much as 2.6 percent in New York on Tuesday. The US is preparing another round of tariffs on Chinese imports if talks between the presidents of the world’s two largest econo-mies falter. Meanwhile, …

Bloomberg Keep pouring money into coal-fired plants and it won’t be just the fuel that’s getting burned. As much as $60 billion of coal power assets may be stranded in the next decade across Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, according to a new study by Carbon Tracker, which cited tighter environmental policies and competition from cheaper renewable energy. That analysis …

Bloomberg India’s top court has directed the federal electricity regulator to decide within 8 weeks on approving revised tariffs for three power producers in the western state of Gujarat due to increased cost of imported coal. The Gujarat government sought the top court’s intervention to implement a state government panel’s report that recommended implementing a cost-reflective tariff, which would mirror …

Bloomberg Simec Atlantis Energy Ltd., a renewable energy developer, plans to extend its tidal stream project in Scotland by adding two new turbines. The MeyGen facility currently has a capacity of 6MWs, and the extension will bring it to 10MWs. It’s partially funded by a $19mn support package from the European Commission. Atlantis is trying to bring costs down by …