Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. may decide soon on building another factory in China as the company pursues a goal of expanding sales in the country by 1 million units by 2022, according to its CEO. “First step is adding capacity in the existing operation. We still have some room to expand,†Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa said Monday during an ...
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JLR posts loss amid decline in demand
Bloomberg Jaguar Land Rover posted a quarterly loss amid a decline in deliveries of its sport utility vehicles (SUV) F-Pace and Discovery Sport from a year earlier. The luxury unit of Tata Motors Ltd. reported a loss of $276 million in the three months ended on June 30, the automaker said. The parent also posted a loss of $277 million. ...
Read More »Starbucks to begin coffee delivery in China with Alibaba
Bloomberg Starbucks Corp. will be joining forces with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to begin delivering its drinks and baked goods in China, according to people with knowledge of the plans, rolling out an effort to stave off competitors and turn around sales in the country. Ele.me, the meals delivery service owned by Alibaba, will handle the logistics in a deal ...
Read More »EU hurtles towards a pyrrhic Brexit victory
There were a few “Amens†coming from the UK after Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, reportedly told The Sunday Times that “there is no objectivity or good faith from the European side†when it comes to the bargaining over the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union. He urged UK Prime Minister Theresa May to hold ...
Read More »BoJ has found some cover for tapering
When a central bank feels the need to tell the world that its monetary policy is “continuous†and “powerful,†you know investors will conclude that it’s neither. Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has finally created some cover for stealth tapering. The BOJ left its main stance unchanged on Tuesday. It’s holding the short-term policy rate (which it charges banks ...
Read More »Walking dead reincarnated at Credit Suisse Group
Credit Suisse Group AG was not long ago ranked alongside Deutsche Bank AG as a basket-case bank whose CEO was a possible “dead man walking.†Yet Tidjane Thiam has shaken off that prognosis by essentially copying his Swiss rival UBS Group AG. He’s shrunk his firm’s trading unit to focus on wealth management, all while cutting costs. And it’s paid ...
Read More »Trump’s tech tariffs are awesome, for SE Asia
Donald Trump may well be the best thing that’s happened to Southeast Asia’s humble electronics industry in quite a while. Relatively small, and frankly not as sexy as their North Asia cousins, makers of components and devices with factories dotted around the region may get some time in the spotlight thanks to the US administration’s decision last month to levy ...
Read More »Japan is going global as America looks inward
If a random American were to be asked “Which countries are at the forefront of globalisation?†or “Which countries are the guardians of the liberal order?,†it seems unlikely that Japan would be among the countries they named. The Land of the Rising Sun is typically thought of as a closed-off country, with little immigration, a protectionist trade policy and ...
Read More »GDP growth data shows how little things have changed
The second-quarter gross domestic product data released recently showed a robust 4.1 percent increase. It wasn’t “historic,†as President Donald Trump proclaimed, but it was undoubtedly solid. With midterm elections a little more than three months away, it is no surprise the release became fodder in our endless national political debate. Lots of misinformation and questionable claims were proffered. But ...
Read More »Gauging the Fed’s reaction to Trump’s tweet
Judging from commentary in markets late last week, an additional factor now features in the calculus of some Fed watchers as they look forward to this week’s two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting: how policy makers will respond to President Donald Trump’s tweets suggesting that the central bank refrain from raising interest rates and risk â€taking away our big competitive ...
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