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Bloomberg Facebook Inc. has suspended apps by Crimson Hexagon, a company founded by a Harvard University researcher who has a close relationship with the social network, after the Wall Street Journal inquired about the firm’s contracts with governments. US government agencies and a Russian nonprofit with ties to the Kremlin are among clients of Crimson Hexagon, a data analysis firm, ...

Bloomberg It’s so hot in Texas that the power grid keeps breaking demand records, and it’s forecast to get so warm in California next week that natural gas prices have risen to a nine-year seasonal high. The Dallas-Fort Worth area shattered a 93-year-old daily heat record, reaching 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius), the sixth straight day of triple-digit temperatures. It ...

Bloomberg It may not be obvious amid the screaming headlines — about currency manipulation, Fed jawboning, Russia summit, yuan weakening, etc. — but US stocks continue their low-volatility, bull-market grind higher. The 2,800 level on the S&P 500 has been bested three sessions in a row on a closing basis — and is on pace for a fourth. That level ...

Bloomberg Egypt is considering adding companies to the list of state-run firms in which investors can secure majority stakes as it readies to launch a programme aimed at reviving the battered public sector. The government is planning to start with the sale of Heliopolis Housing and Eastern Tobacco in October, Public Enterprise Minister Hisham Tawfik said. So far, however, a ...

Bloomberg Energy executives say the fuel Chancellor Angela Merkel has picked for Germans as a bridge towards a cleaner future could turn out to be another dead end without political guarantees to draw investment. “I can’t imagine a rational investor who would invest in large-scale gas capacity” without government assurances, said Uniper SE Chief Executive Officer Klaus Schaefer in Berlin. ...

Bloomberg A US judge threw out New York’s lawsuit seeking to hold five of the world’s biggest oil companies financially responsible for contributing to climate change. US District Judge John Keenan dismissed the city’s claims against Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp, BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and ConocoPhillips, ruling that the federal Clean Air Act controls carbon dioxide emissions ...

Bloomberg European utilities fell after UK energy company SSE Plc said the dry, mild weather that cut quarterly profit could hurt full-year results. The Stoxx Europe 600 Utilities index dropped to a two-week low, led by Orsted AS, the world’s biggest offshore wind-farm developer. SSE, the second-worst performer, fell the most since May and UK energy supplier Centrica Plc slumped ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration’s plan to subsidise unprofitable coal and nuclear plants may cost as much as $35 billion a year, according to a study backed by trade groups opposed to the idea. Giving power plants an out-of-market annual payment of $50 per kilowatt of capacity — roughly the average operating shortfall for plants running at a deficit — would ...

Bloomberg KKR & Co. said it is taking over Taiwanese company LCY Chemical Corp. in a deal valued at $1.56 billion, as the global buyout firm seeks to make additional majority stakes purchases in Greater China. A consortium led by New York-based KKR agreed to acquire all of LCY’s shares for NT$56 each, a 17.3 percent premium to July 20’s ...

Bloomberg Online fashion retailer Farfetch UK Ltd is buying a Chinese digital marketing agency to help sell luxury brands to consumers on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat messaging service. Farfetch is acquiring CuriosityChina and will integrate it into its services division, providing the likes of high-end shoe designer Manolo Blahnik with packages of digital solutions. It’s been trying to boost its ...