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Auditing firm BDO has advised its member firms not to take outside equity investments amid a wave of interest in the sector from buyout giants around the world....

Germany has rejected TotalEnergies SE's request to improve the financial terms on its costly offshore wind projects, according to people familiar with the matter, a decision that could weigh on the French oil company's profits....

A bond of Ineos Group Holdings SA is the worst performer among the European companies that sold debt since summer as the chemicals firm grapples with higher energy costs and increasing competition....

London cocoa prices posted the biggest intraday gain since August, with traders likely covering huge bearish positions after a briefer-than-expected delay to EU deforestation laws and concerns over Ivory Coast supplies....

Shell Plc is appealing a court decision that overturned the environmental permit for an oil exploration block off the west coast of South Africa....

Dubai-based Dubizzle Ltd. has postponed its initial public offering, a day before bookbuilding for the deal was set to begin....

Investor holdings of physically-backed gold exchange-traded funds reached their highest level in three years just as bullion suffered its biggest one-day plunge since 2013....

The Argentine peso strengthened, snapping a five-day losing streak amid continued market intervention by both the local and US governments....

Anthropic is in early talks with Google for a massive cloud deal — potentially worth tens of billions — giving the AI startup access to Google's powerful TPU chips. It's the latest move in the arms race for computing power driving the AI boom. Bloomberg Tech co-host Ed Ludlow broke the story and he joined Bloomberg Open Interest to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Europe's top banking regulator should be given a mandate to ensure the continent's banks aren't just safe but can also stay competitive, according to Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing....

US stocks opened little changed on Wednesday as investors assessed another slew of mixed earnings reports. Netflix Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. led decliners after reporting disappointing results, while Capital One Financial Corp. was among top gainers after a positive surprise....

South Korea and the US are focusing on the structure of a $350 billion investment pledge by Seoul, rather than a currency swap, according to Finance Minister Koo Yun Cheol....

A top South African banker criticized the nation's Black economic empowerment laws as a misfire that's failed to spread wealth or opportunity after more than three decades....

The financing arm of General Motors Co. plans to sell a three-year bond on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the deal....

Ghana will seek a $200-a-ton premium from buyers for sustainably grown and traceable cocoa as the world's second-largest producer prepares for the European Union's deforestation regulations....

The Bank of England is “closely monitoring” standards in leveraged finance markets and watching out for signs of forced selling by investors after the high-profile collapse of two US companies, according to an executive at the bank....

Issuance of green bonds rose to $72 billion globally last month, boosted by sales from Europe and Asia, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was the most since June's $85 billion tally....

Short sellers have begun taking profits from a wager against some of the largest private credit lenders in the US after their share prices were roiled by concerns about valuations in the wider credit market....

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the nation was on the verge of wrapping up a trade deal with the US after President Donald Trump slapped hefty tariffs on its exports to the world's largest market....

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the European Union must do more to integrate financial trading that's currently splintered across hundreds of exchanges....