Southeast Asia today is viewed as the last likely bastion of strong growth in coal demand globally. But just as Indian coal-fired power generation fell an entirely unprecedented 26TWh or -3% during 2019, we note expectations for sustained decades-long growth in Southeast Asian coal-fired power generation is far from a locked-in certainty.

Solar power was responsible for 3.6% of the India’s overall power production in fiscal 2019/20,

Энергетическое взаимодействие России и Индии осуществляется в стабильном и интенсивном режиме, отметил Александр Новак в ходе разговора.

China's coal imports over the January to April period jumped 26.9% to 126.73 million tonnes,

Jiangsu is China’s biggest provincial gas market with consumption growing by 6.3pc in 2019 to 28.7bn m³

The pan-European STOXX 600 held at a near seven-week high with a 0.7% gain,

Volatile movement is expected even as crude futures appear to have found a floor currently, after a dramatic week that saw the NYMEX contract slip into negative territory for the first time.

The U.S. dollar was weaker against the Japanese yen and the euro

The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 1.5%, following gains in Asian markets after the Bank of Japan pledged to buy unlimited amount of bonds to keep borrowing costs low.

The Nikkei share average fell 1.97% to 19,280.78, slipping further from Friday’s near six-week high of 19,922.

The upsized package will total 117.1 trillion yen ($1.086 trillion), with fiscal measures making up less than half of it, the Ministry of Finance said.

China on Friday reported a contraction of 6.8% in its Q1 GDP, but economic activity improved in March from January-February.

The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 3.05% higher at 9,266.75, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex rose 3.22% to 31,588.60. Both the indexes finished the holiday-shortened week more than 1% higher.

The rupee declined in line with emerging market peers amid worries of a steep global recession due to the pandemic and hit a record low of 76.82 against the dollar.

France's Framatome has signed a long-term service contract with the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company Limited (TNPJVC) to support operations of units 1 and 2 at the Taishan nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. The 1750-megawatt EPRs entered commercial operation in December 2018 and September 2019, respectively.