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Bankruptcy within months is a possibility for the parent company of a U.S. subsidiary that received U.S. Department of Energy funding to build two groundbreaking concentrated solar power (CSP) projects.

SYDNEY, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The Australian Taxation Office on Thursday published the names of nearly 600 companies which it said paid no tax last financial year, in an apparent move to force large multinationals to stop using legal loopholes to avoid paying tax.

Younicos recently signed agreements for $50 million in growth capital to further scale its deployment of intelligent energy storage solutions.

SBG Cleantech Ltd, the clean energy joint venture company between Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., India’s Bharti Enterprises Pvt. and Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, won its first solar project in India, a government official said.

Qatar plans to commission the $10bn Barzan gas project in 2016 and significantly boost production capacity in the following year.

SAO PAULO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot has accused jailed financier André Esteves of influence-peddling and bribery in a corruption probe at state firms, newspaper Valor Econômico said on Wednesday, a day before lawyers expect the nation's top court to decide whether to release the billionaire banker.

Dec 16 (Reuters) - General Electric Co predicted on Wednesday a double-digit rise in operating earnings in 2016 to between $1.45 and $1.55 a share and said it would return about $26 billion to shareholders, sending its stock up sharply.

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Halcon Resources Corp on Wednesday announced a one-for-five reverse stock split, effective Jan. 5.

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