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Tesla desperately needs a crossover hit

  When Tesla Inc. chief executive officer Elon Musk was asked if his burgeoning collection of startup companies might lead him to step away from the electric automaker, he said he’d stick around as long as he could “positively contribute” to its success. “The most valuable thing I could contribute is product design and technology,” he told analysts on the ...

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Trump delay stalls $50mn energy projects

  Bloomberg By the time Midwesterners fire up their furnaces this fall, the $2 billion Nexus pipeline is supposed to be pumping natural gas to heat homes from frosty Ohio to frostier Ontario. But six months out, the 255-mile (410-kilometer) pipeline exists only on paper. Until President Donald Trump fills key vacancies at an energy regulator, Nexus and other sprawling ...

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Energy Transfer spills through Ohio on rise

  Bloomberg The number of spills tied to a natural gas pipeline that Energy Transfer Partners LP is building through Ohio is mounting. And so is the tension between the Dallas-based pipeline giant and state regulators. Last month, the company reported two spills that sent almost 50,000 barrels of drilling fluids flowing into Ohio wetlands while working to install its ...

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Iran to go along with OPEC decision on extending cuts

  Bloomberg Iran will go along with whatever decision OPEC makes at its meeting later this month on whether to extend oil production cuts beyond June, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said. “All indications are that the members want a renewal of the deal and we will go along with what they agree upon,” Zanganeh said on Saturday on the ...

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Indonesia still a darling for investors ignoring earnings

  Bloomberg Two thirds of Indonesia’s major companies missed earnings estimates in the first quarter, but that’s done little to stop investors from pouring into this enduring emerging-market darling. Overseas funds pumped the most money into the market in April for any month since mid-2014, even as Indonesia’s capital region saw its business-friendly governor lose a re-election campaign. The Jakarta ...

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India’s first infrastructure trust IPO gets 8.5 times demand

  Bloomberg India’s first bond-like securities giving investors exposure to the nation’s infrastructure projects received bids for 8.5 times the number of units offered. IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd., the Mumbai-based road operator, will list the hybrids known as infrastructure investment trusts on May 8. The IRB InvIT Fund’s initial public offering was fully subscribed on Friday, the last day of ...

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IBM falls as Buffett reports reduced stake

  Bloomberg Warren Buffett is acknowledging what many investors have already realized: IBM’s long-promised reinvention is slow, painful and nowhere near close to the end. In an interview with CNBC, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed that he sold about a third of the firm’s investment in the computer-services giant during the first half ...

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Kraft Heinz under pressure as sales drop

  Bloomberg Kraft Heinz Co., rebuffed in its bid to buy Unilever earlier this year, is struggling to reignite sales in the absence of a deal. First-quarter revenue dropped to $6.36 billion, the food giant said. That missed the $6.46 billion average of analysts’ projections. Earnings also fell short of estimates, suggesting that Kraft Heinz’s much-vaunted cost cutting didn’t do ...

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Drugmaker wins FDA nod for new ALS drug

  Bloomberg Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. won US approval for its medication to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease, the first new drug for the condition in more than two decades and just the second approved option for patients with the rare and deadly muscle-weakening ailment. Radicava will cost about $145,000 a year before any discounts and rebates, with assistance available to ...

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