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Bloomberg As some Chinese tycoons slow acquisitions to focus on digesting their massive debt loads, one property billionaire is moving the other way. Sunac China Holdings Ltd. Chairman Sun Hongbin over the past year oversaw an acquisition spree that culminated with Monday’s $9.3 billion purchase of assets from Dalian Wanda Group Co. While the deal set a record for China’s ...

Bloomberg Indian shares advanced a second day, with the key indexes extending record highs, paced by a rally in software exporters. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex added 0.1 percent to close at 31,747.09 at the 3:30 p.m. close in Mumbai, while the NSE Nifty 50 Index gained 0.2 percent. The Sensex closed at an all-time high level for the third ...

Bloomberg Electricity drew in more investment than fossil fuel supply for the first time last year as the energy industry prepared for electrification of everything from cars to buildings and industrial processes. Power generation and electricity grid expansions took in $718 billion, 42 percent of the $1.7 trillion invested in energy last year, according to a report by the International ...

Bloomberg OPEC needs to “shock and awe” the oil market for prices to gain, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries must increase output cuts aimed at shrinking a global glut with little public announcement in order to jolt investors, the bank said in a July 10 report. Without such action and no evidence of ...

Bloomberg Everyone knows the rapidly shrinking energy sector has seen its influence on equity indexes wane. But oil-and-gas companies are also losing pull in a corner of the market they once dominated: value stocks. How far have they fallen? As recently as 2012, correlations between the S&P 500 Value Index and the benchmark’s energy companies were often close to 1, ...

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the oil company that spent more than $50bn to buy natural-gas producer BG Group Plc, is looking to expand demand for fuel in transport to ensure its output is consumed. Shell is studying developing a global network of liquefied natural gas supply hubs for vehicles including ships, Steve Hill, executive vice president for gas and ...

Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos has hired the same legal representation used by Brazilian utility Eletrobras to audit its contracts with Odebrecht SA and affiliate Braskem SA amid an ongoing investigation into those two companies by the US Department of Justice. Hogan Lovells US LLP, which for the past two years has been leading an internal audit of state-owned Eletrobras related to ...

Bloomberg A proposal that Libya and Nigeria could have to accept limits on their crude production probably wouldn’t be enough to put OPEC’s faltering efforts to eliminate a global supply glut back on track. The two African nations — exempt from the supply curbs agreed last year due to internal strife — have added enough production in the last two ...

Bloomberg The transatlantic trade deal US President Donald Trump is offering UK Prime Minister Theresa May will ultimately prove easy to promise and hard to deliver. That’s the warning of business leaders and trade analysts after Trump told May last week that the post-Brexit accord she hankers after can be lined up “very, very quickly.” The challenge for the UK ...

Bloomberg Google will find out this week if it owes 1.12 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in back taxes to France, just days after it was slapped with a record antitrust fine by the European Union. Paris judges are set to rule as soon as Wednesday whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google illegally dodged French taxes by routing sales in the country out ...