The capacity of the global oil refining sector contracted by 350,000 barrels per day in the second quarter of 2025 on the closure of PetroChina’s Dalian plant and Petroineos’s Grangemouth plant. While total net capacity may rise in the second half of 2025 with new...
Bloomberg Intelligence’s China retail sales outlook of 4.1% growth is shaped by the government’s ability to stimulate spending, with a final round of support expected to unleash over 1.2 trillion yuan in consumer spending.
In this edition of Data Spotlight, we examine supply chain and facilities data, the effects of guidance surprises on stocks, and how investors use data analytics to anticipate potential revenue surprises.
AI’s shift to inference at scale from model development is tilting data-center demand toward databases, especially those used by chatbots, coding agents and other AI agents, Bloomberg Intelligence analysis shows.
The surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is turning data centers into giant energy users. Electricity demand from AI training and services is set to quadruple within a decade, making data centers one of the fastest-growing electricity users on the planet.
