HNA Jets Into Global Marketplace

Private-equity buyer HNA Group was back in the headlines this week with an announcement that it would buy Singaporean logistics specialist CWT Ltd. for nearly $1 billion. That came just a month after HNA agreed to pay $775 million for 51% of the oil products and logistics business of Swiss trading and mining giant Glencore PLC, extending a dizzying stream of overseas buying over the last three years. The largest of those include its agreements last year to pay $6.5 billion for a quarter of hotel giant Hilton Inc., and its $6 billion purchase of computer parts distributor Ingram Micro Inc.