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Bloomberg Some liquefied natural gas (LNG) sellers aren’t in a rush to deliver their multimillion-dollar cargoes. With uncertain demand and no signs yet of bitter cold, some traders are preferring to keep their fuel inside vessels in the hope prices will rise. While the sight of stationary cargoes might not be unusual in the more-established oil market, technology has only ...

Bloomberg Developing countries have added more clean power capacity than fossil fuel generation for the first time ever, charging ahead of wealthier nations in the global green energy push, according to Bloomberg NEF. Wind and solar generation accounted for just over half of the 186 gigawatts of new power capacity in developing nations last year, according to BNEF’s annual Climatescope ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’ll likely push forward with plans to increase tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, indicating he would also slap duties on all remaining imports from the Asian nation if negotiations with China’s leader Xi Jinping fail to produce a trade deal. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Monday, said ...

Bloomberg General Motors Co.’s attempt to rejuvenate its business once again is made more difficult by a dramatic slowdown in the world’s largest vehicle market: China. During previous shakeups, including its bankruptcy and recovery almost a decade ago, the US carmaker could rely on steadily growing demand in China that helped it weather cooling sales at home. Not this time ...

Bloomberg Now is the time for equity investors to bet on India’s election results, even though the polls aren’t likely till May, according to FundsIndia. Investing five to six months before the elections in 2009 and 2014 earned an average three to six percent more than the Indian benchmark return in the five-year period to the next vote, said Vidya ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s housing market is suffering its worst declines since 2016 — by multiple measures. New-home sales this month are on track to be the lowest by volume since January or February of that year, according to Midland Realty data. Meanwhile, used-home prices have fallen for eight weeks, the longest losing streak since 2016, according to the Centa-City Leading ...

Bloomberg Wu Yajun’s transfer of a $7 billion stake to her daughter caps the property developer’s comeback after a 2012 divorce robbed her of the title of China’s richest woman. It also marks the distance that billionaire Wu has come since quitting an “iron rice bowl” job in 1988. Her property empire Longfor Group Holding Ltd. has almost doubled in ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump dropped a rhetorical bomb on UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s efforts to get a Brexit agreement through parliament, warning the deal she reached with the EU could jeopardise Britain’s ability to strike a trade pact with the US. “Right now as the deal stands she may not — they may not — be able to ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc, which has lost a fifth of its value in a tech market rout since October, is poi-sed for another setback after US President Donald Trump suggested that 10 percent tariffs could be placed on mobile phones, like the iPhone, and laptops made in China. The company already is facing reports of suppliers cutting forecasts, signalling the new ...

Bloomberg Google runs the risk of hefty fines from the European Union’s (EU) beefed-up data-protection watchdogs after consumer groups accused the search-engine giant of abusing tools that track users’ location. Seven European consumer organisations on Tuesday said they would file complaints with their national regulators, who now have powers to levy penalties of as much as 4 percent of a ...