Bloomberg Delinquent loans worth as much as 700 billion rupees ($10 billion) in India’s power sector are in the process of being resolved, according to the nation’s largest bank, helping lenders avoid dragging seven accounts to bankruptcy court under new norms laid out by the regulator. State Bank of India identified 34 stressed accounts in the power sector, with dues ...

Bloomberg The charts are saying to sell energy shares. Cornerstone Macro Head of Technical Analysis Carter Worth is recommending an underweight on the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 over the past week and a half. Worth said his call comes from analyzing the chart patterns of each of the stocks that compose the Russell 3000 Energy sector. “What we ...

Bloomberg Oando Plc is looking to boost crude output from next year as the Nigerian producer breaks the back of a $2.5 billion debt burden built up through the 2014 acquisition of oil and gas assets from US giant ConocoPhillips. The borrowings will be almost 90 percent lower by the third quarter of 2019 and the company is now preparing ...

Bloomberg Colombia’s Ecopetrol SA plans to expand its oil and gas reserves through acquisitions, while also increasing its presence in the US. The state-owned oil company has identified assets that it may consider buying, Chief Executive Officer Felipe Bayon said at the New York Stock Exchange. “We’re trying to make it happen this year.” “It needs to be the right ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. is not only doubling down on the iPhone X, it’s tripling down. The world’s most valuable company plans to launch three new phones soon that keep the edge-to-edge screen design of last year’s flagship, according to people familiar with the matter. The devices will boast a wider range of prices, features and sizes to increase their appeal, ...

Bloomberg Londoners are buying more homes outside the capital as prices remain too high, even after the end of a decade-long housing boom. In the first half, Londoners bought more than 30,000 homes outside the city, a 16 percent rise from a year ago and 61 percent more than in the same period a decade earlier, according to research by ...

Bloomberg Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s blood-thinning drug Xarelto didn’t prevent clotting in high-risk patients after they were released from the hospital, a setback for one of the manufacturers’ best-selling drugs. About 12,000 medically ill patients at increased risk of blood clotting took part in the trial, known as the Mariner study. The results were presented at the European ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk’s stunning tweet that he wanted to take Tesla Inc. private and had funding secured was a classic Musk moonshot — given credibility only by the sense that if anyone could possibly pull such a brazen feat, he was the guy. The initial scoffing after that August 7 post gave way to hiring of bankers to a board ...

China’s consumer growth is a key plank underpinning the investment thesis for many of the country’s big technology companies. But the torrent of revenue from domestic customers is getting expe- nsive, forcing the likes of Tencent Holdings Ltd, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Sina Corp to pony up more cash just to keep the numbers humming along at the accustomed ...

Remarks by Fed officials at the symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, confirmed the consensus market expectation that the US central bank will hike interest rates two more times this year, delivering the biggest annual tightening in more than a decade. The increases would be carried out even as the Fed is reducing the size of its $4 trillion balance sheets. ...