Bloomberg Dominion Energy Inc.’s $7.9 billion takeover of a troubled South Carolina utility was approved by state regulators, clearing way for a deal that nearly collapsed over costs from a failed nuclear project. The unanimous vote comes nearly a year after Dominion proposed buying Scana Corp, which spent about $4.9 billion to expand the V.C. Summer nuclear plant then walked ...

Bloomberg Occidental Petroleum Corp will look for ways to cut costs other than dropping rigs, in response to the recent slump in oil prices, according to Chief Executive Officer Vicki Hollub. “We’re going to keep our rigs running and we’re going to figure out how to reduce costs in some other way that’s not impacting people who are depending on ...

Bloomberg Premier Oil Plc is considering a bid for a package of North Sea oil and gas assets put on the block by US oil major Chevron Corp that’s worth about $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The first round of bids is due before the end of the month, the people said, asking not to be ...

Bloomberg Xinyi Energy Holdings Ltd, an owner and operator of solar farms in China, is postponing a Hong Kong initial public offering of as much as $582 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The unit of Xinyi Solar Holdings Ltd has no timetable for relaunching the deal, said one of the people, who asked not to be ...

Bloomberg China took more steps to defuse trade tensions with the US, confirming it will remove the retaliatory duty on automobiles imported from America and preparing to restart purchases of American corn. The 25 percent tariff imposed on vehicles as a tit-for-tat measure will be scrapped starting from January 1, the finance ministry said. China also may buy at least ...

Bloomberg India’s largest listed property developer expects many of its smaller peers to go belly-up as creditors cut financing after a shock default. “Weaker balance sheets are going to fall off, while large listed developers will get though current liquidity crisis,” Saurabh Chawla, outgoing chief financial officer of DLF Ltd., said. Smaller developers have already been struggling amid a slump ...

Bloomberg China plans to give foreign companies greater access to its economy and is drafting a replacement of its plan to dominate advanced technologies by 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources briefed on the strategy. Beijing’s changes would come in response to pressure from US President Donald Trump, who launched a tit-for-tat tariff dispute with China this year ...

Bloomberg Forty years ago, 18 villagers of Xiaogang in Anhui Province banded together to disobey the orders of China’s government, risking their lives by deciding to farm individually instead of collectively. Now, they’re celebrated as the pioneers of Reform and Opening Up — the process of turning China into a market-based economy that celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. As ...

Bloomberg Envoys at a United Nations conference adopted a set of steps on fighting climate change meant to guide efforts to rein in greenhouse gas pollution worldwide. The diplomats drawn from energy and environment ministries in almost 200 countries backed rules to implement the three-year-old Paris Agreement, which called for drastic reductions in the use of fossil fuels by the ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc fell with shares on course to close at their lowest level since April, as more analysts joined the chorus of bears and skeptics warning about the prospects for iPhone sales. The stock dropped as much as 2.9 percent, and shares are on track for their 10th negative week of the past 11. At current levels, Apple is ...