Bloomberg Germany’s economy is losing steam but will do slightly better than government forecasts as fears grow over rising coronavirus infections, according to the country’ s five leading research institutes. Gross domestic product will contract by 5.4% in 2020 and grow 4.7% next year, the experts predicted in their latest bi-annual outlook published on Wednesday. In their spring report, they ...

Bloomberg Wealthy buyers of mansions and penthouse apartments in London are finding that the pandemic isn’t throwing bargains their way. Luxury homes that changed hands for more than $13 million in the second quarter sold at an average 95% of their asking prices, according to latest data from broker Knight Frank. That was the smallest discount since the end of ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp. is preparing to cut the lights to 162,000 Californians in 24 counties in its latest effort to keep strong winds from knocking down live wires and igniting wildfires. PG&E will make a final decision on the power cuts, with the first customers expected to go dark later that day, Mark Quinlan, an incident commander for the San ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s consumer inflation recorded its fastest pace for the month of September since 2003 as food and fuel prices rise, supporting the case for the central bank to keep its key rate unchanged later this month. The benchmark IPCA index rises 0.64% from August, above the 0.54% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Annual inflation accelerated to ...

Bloomberg European stocks rise with US futures as investors prepared for some of the biggest banks to report earnings including Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. The pound pared declines after the UK signalled it will continue efforts to reach an agreement with the European Union on their future relationship beyond Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s October 15 ...

Bloomberg Chinese domestic equities are worth more than $10 trillion for the first time since 2015, when a record crash erased half the market’s value in months and saddled millions of investors with losses. The world’s second-largest stock market added $3.3 trillion since a low in March, helped by Beijing’s policies to encourage trading, a flurry of new listings that ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Mubadala Investment Company on Tuesday announced that it is pumping 200 million euros into Evotec SE, a German pharmaceutical company that specialises in drug discovery solutions. Evotec SE said that it resolved a capital increase from its authorised capital without pre-emptive rights against cash. Evotec will issue a total of 11,478,298 new shares to Mubadala Investment ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) on Tuesday announced the launch of its latest investment service “Covered Short Selling” (CSS) to support the exchange’s strategy of diversifying investment and providing investors with a broader range of hedging mechanisms. By doing so, it will attract a new segment of specialised and experienced investors, driving both liquidity and trading ...

Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the world economy still faces an uneven recovery until the coronavirus is tamed even as it offered a less-dire view of this year’s recession following massive stimulus from central banks and governments. The fund now forecasts world gross domestic product (GDP) to shrink 4.4% this year, compared with the 5.2% drop seen ...

Dubai / WAM Union Properties announced on Tuesday its financial results for the three-month period ended on September 30, with a net profit of AED509.2 million (approximately 12 fils per share), while the profit for the nine-month period of the current year reached to AED348.8 million (approximately 8 fils per share). With these realised profits, the group has cleared all ...