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Bloomberg The profits of Chinese industrial enterprises rebounded in May for the first time since November 2019, signaling the economy is continuing to recover from the coronavirus shutdowns Industrial profits rose 6% to 582.34 billion yuan ($82 billion) last month from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Sunday. That compared with a decline of 4.3% …

Bloomberg India, the third-biggest oil consumer, expects fuel demand to return to normal earlier than projections by the International Energy Agency and OPEC. “If you look at the trend of the past few weeks, I’m confident that by the end of second quarter, demand will be as usual,” India’s oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the BloombergNEF Summit, referring to …

Bloomberg Electricite de France (EDF) faces a possible $11 million fine after being accused by French regulators of providing false information on the Hinkley Point C nuclear project and lacking transparency concerning new circumstances that ramped up its cost. In October 2014, EDF announced it would build the UK’s first nuclear reactors since 1995 after reaching a deal with the …

Bloomberg A collective of more than 200 farmers in a rural part of the Netherlands got financing to build one of the largest onshore wind farms in the country. Windpark Zeewolde BV secured 500 million euros ($561 million) of debt from Rabobank to construct the 322-megawatt wind farm about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Amsterdam. The group plans to …

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s government has put pressure on Japan’s Hitachi Ltd not to sell a nuclear-power project in the UK to China, The Sunday Times reported, without saying where it got the information. Hitachi is weighing options for the Horizon nuclear project in Anglesey, according to the report. The company said in January 2019 that it would halt …

Bloomberg In the north of England about 450 engineers are toiling away to build a new large gas plant. It could be one of Britain’s last. SSE’s 840-megawatt Keadby plant is the latest gas plant under construction in the UK. At the start of June a gas turbine weighing as much as an Airbus A-380 arrived on-site from Germany, keeping …

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc dismissed the UK’s plan to relax quarantine requirements for people arriving from France, Greece and Spain as “more idiotic rubbish” and called for the restrictions to be scrapped entirely. The government plans next week to publish a full list of the countries with which it will establish so-called air bridges — exempting incoming travelers from self-isolating …

Bloomberg British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group, will cut 350 pilots and put another 300 in a “pool” for re-hire when needed as part of a deal reached with cockpit crew, The Sun reported. Most of the pilots facing compulsory redundancies worked from Gatwick airport in London, according to the report, which didn’t say where the information …

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc will inform almost 2,600 pilots about a possible furlough while encouraging a total of 7,900 eligible aviators to accept an early retirement package, according to a memo sent to staff. “Even with the increased travel demand we’ve seen in recent weeks, we expect revenue to be at only 25% of what it was last summer …

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc said it would sell flights to capacity starting from July 1, abandoning caps on passenger loads that were designed to promote social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Customers still will be notified when they’re booked on crowded flights and can move their reservations at no cost, the airline said in a statement. Starting from June …