FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The number of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles (EV) jumped 60% in 2019, the biggest increase in three years and outpacing sales of battery-powered cars, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In its a... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese firms implemented 1.4 trillion yuan ($203 billion) in debt-to-equity swaps and disposed of 2 trillion yuan in soured debt last year as they moved to allay financial risk, the country’s banking and insurance regulator said on Monday.... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will roll out an infrastructure plan on Monday that already f... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators met with administration officials on Tuesday to discuss drafting legislation to spend $1 trillion on improving the country’s infrastructure, a goal that President Trump made a priority in the 2016 elec... More »
Oil and petrochemical plants along the U.S. Gulf Coast intend to go ahead with plans for near record spending on expansions next year, despite Hurricane Harvey driving up labor costs and slowing work, experts said. More »
U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Representative Bill Shuster (R-PA) holds strips of paper used by air traffic controllers to keep track of planes during an event where U.S. President Donald Trump proposed reforms to the U.S. a... More »
Elaine Chao testifies before a Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be transportation secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria To preserve federal funding f... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah (not pictured) in the Rose Garden after their meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas U.S. President Donald Trump said on W... More »
Richard LeFrak, President and CEO of LeFrak Organization, answers questions from a reporter during the Reuters Global Real Estate and Infrastructure Summit in New York, June 14, 2010. REUTERS/Keith Bedford A group advising U.S. President Donald Trump on infras... More »
A construction site is seen in central Bangkok, Thailand March 8, 2017. Picture taken March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Nearly two years after Thailand’s junta approved $40 billion for big transport projects to spur economic revival, it has spent barely two p... More »
A local ferry floats past as passengers aboard the cruise ship ‘Carnival Legend’ stand on a balcony at the Overseas Passenger Terminal located at Sydney’s Circular Quay in Australia, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray A parking nightmare in Sydney harbor left t... More »
The BlackRock logo is seen outside of its offices in New York January 18, 2012. B REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the world’s largest asset manager, will offer infrastructure funds for the first time through independent financial ad... More »
The following timeline charts the schedule for Quebec’s pension fund, the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, to finance and oversee the construction of a new 67 kilometer (41.63 miles)public transit system in Montreal, the third largest automated transpor... More »
FILE PHOTO – Polices officers watch a train pass in a subway station in Montreal, May 10, 2012. REUTERS/Olivier Jean Quebec’s public pension fund, the Caisse, is about to take on one of its toughest investment challenges yet – helping the commuters of Montreal... More »
SAN FRANCISCO The California Public Employees’ Retirement System recently bought a stake in a private Indiana toll road with a troubled history, one sign of how popular infrastructure investments have become among U.S. pension funds. In May, CalPERS bought a 1... More »
KUNMING, China/VIENTIANE For the southwestern city of Kunming, China’s plan to extend a high-speed rail link 3,000 km (1,875 miles) south to Singapore is already a boon: pristine expressways, a gleaming station and something of a real estate boom, as young buy... More »
NEW YORK BlackRock Inc is accelerating its push in Latin America, making plans for its first launch of a private equity infrastructure fund targeting that market, a company document showed. The launch is anticipated this year, according to the document, an inf... More »
BEIJING China completed investment of 5.3096 trillion yuan ($817.83 billion) on 11 types of key projects by the end of January, the country’s state planner said in a briefing on Monday. The types of key projects include information networks, environmental prot... More »
