Bloomberg YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history. With each step, it gave those activists, regulators and lawmakers more reasons to attack its free-wheeling, user-generated business model. Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s chief executive officer, announced her goals in April. “My top priority,” she wrote, “is responsibility.” Her company spent the year trying ...

Bloomberg Sony Corp is working around the clock to manufacture its in-demand image sensors, but even a 24-hour operation hasn’t been enough. For the second straight year, the Japanese company will run its chip factories constantly through the holidays to try and keep up with demand for sensors used in mobile phone cameras, according to Terushi Shimizu, the head of ...

Bloomberg Dish Network Corp’s Sling TV is gearing up for a big election news cycle, with the addition of Fox News, MSNBC and CNN’s HLN to its live TV streaming service. But the change comes with a price increase, the second since its launch almost five years ago. Subscriptions to the multiscreen Blue plan will rise to $30 a month ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank ordered lenders to adopt a new loan-pricing regime for all credit from next year, marking an end to the previous benchmark and another step towards liberalising the financial system. Financial institutions should stop using the old lending rate as the pricing reference for all credit from January, while gradually converting existing loans to a new base ...

Bloomberg President Ivan Duque named a University of Illinois-trained economist with policy-making experience to take a seat on the board of Colombia’s central bank. Arturo Jose Galindo was chief of the Inter-American Development Bank’s strategy development division. He previously worked as an economist at the Colombian central bank and as an adviser to the nation’s banking association. He will replace ...

Bloomberg The pound is set for a yearly gain against the dollar, but it may struggle to take off further in the first quarter of 2020. Sterling has recovered almost 10% since hitting an almost three-year low in September, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s snap election in December lifted political deadlock in Westminster. The re-elected government’s solid majority should help ...

Bloomberg India’s financial regulator predicted that an improvement in banks’ bad-loan ratios will reverse, as a slowing economy hurts borrowers’ ability to repay. In its latest Financial Stability Report, the Reserve Bank of India said soured debt at Indian lenders will rise to 9.9% of total credit by September 2020, after dropping the most in 15 years to 9.3% a ...

Bloomberg The biggest US banks, including bellwethers JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc, gained as a hearty US consumer continued to signal good news for lenders. BofA rose as much as 1% to the highest since October 2008 and Citi climbed as much as 1.5% to the highest since January 2018. Other top preformers included ...

Bloomberg Benchmark sovereign bonds gained in India after the central bank said it will buy long-end debt for a second week, stepping up the pace of its unconventional policy to lower borrowing costs. The 10-year yield slid 8 basis points to 6.51% at the close, taking the week’s drop to 10 basis points. It touched a three-week low of 6.49% ...

Bloomberg A new batch of messages between Boeing Co. employees on the development of the 737 Max paints a “very disturbing picture” of concerns about the plane, according to an aide to a House committee. The documents were turned over to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency said in a statement. The disclosure came the same day that Boeing ousted ...