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Singapore property curbs to stay

  Bloomberg Singapore’s residential property curbs are set to stay in place for at least another year amid signs the city’s housing market is stabilizing, the chief executive officer of Southeast Asia’s biggest developer said. “We see volume picking up and the price declines have slowed,” Lim Ming Yan, the president and CEO of CapitaLand Ltd., said in a Bloomberg ...

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Audi China dealers demand $4bn to cover sales losses

  Bloomberg Audi dealers in China are demanding 28 billion yuan ($4 billion) to cover losses over the past three years that they blame on the automaker adding too many distributors, potentially worsening a sales decline that saw BMW and Mercedes-Benz overtake the luxury brand last month. The dealers met in Sanya, China, and issued a statement saying their newly ...

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Warburg Pincus in talks for Tata stake

  Bloomberg Warburg Pincus is in advanced discussions to buy a stake in the engineering unit of Tata Motors Ltd., the manufacturer of Jaguar sports cars and Land Rover sport utility vehicles, people with knowledge of the matter said. The private equity firm is in talks to buy a significant minority holding in Tata Technologies Ltd. for about $450 million, ...

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Singapore, Hong Kong restart dual-class push to snag IPOs

  Bloomberg Hong Kong and Singapore are at it again. The Asian financial hub rivals are reviving a debate on dual-class shares as global competition for the hottest initial public offerings intensifies. Singapore is a few steps ahead. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last week gave his approval to dual-class shares and other measures proposed by a panel to drive ...

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‘India’s growth will rebound after cash ban’

  Bloomberg India’s growth will bounce back after a sharp slowdown triggered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clampdown on cash, said central bank Governor Urjit Patel. “Almost everyone agrees that the impact is going to be a sharp ‘V,’ that we would have a downgrade of growth for a short period of time,” Patel told CNBC-TV18 in an interview telecast ...

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Coal-loving Indonesia investor doubles down after 39% gain

  Bloomberg Indonesian stock fund manager Agus Yanuar has trounced his peers and the Jakarta Composite Index over the past year by riding a rebound in commodity prices. Now, the chief investment officer at PT Samuel Aset Manajemen says he’s sticking to his guns. Yanuar’s SAM Indonesian Equity Fund has returned 39 percent in 12 months, more than double its ...

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S’pore tourism slumps

  Bloomberg Singapore forecasts slower growth in tourist arrivals this year, citing global economic and political uncertainties and stiffer competition from neighbors in the region. Visitors may increase zero percent to 2 percent in 2017, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Growth was 7.7 percent last year with a record 16.4 million tourists led by visitors from China, India and ...

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Carmakers’ plea for fuel economy review sets stage for showdown

  Bloomberg Automakers enjoying lucrative sales of trucks and sport utility vehicles are hoping President Donald Trump makes good on his vows to deregulate. Environmental groups are saying fuel efficiency standards won’t be watered down without a legal challenge. “We’ll see him in court,” Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, said of the group’s planned response if the ...

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British blue chips snub investor calls to reveal CEO pay ratios

  Bloomberg Some of Britain’s biggest companies are bucking calls to reveal more data about executive pay, risking a fresh rift with major investors who are urging the government to combat ballooning wage inequality. Four of the 16 FTSE 100 companies that responded to a Bloomberg survey — GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Aviva and Anglo American — said they won’t publish a ...

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Agnico to invest $1.2bn in gold projects in Canada

  Bloomberg Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. plans to invest more than $1.2 billion in Canada’s subarctic in the next three years as it builds one new mine and expands another. North America’s fourth-largest gold miner by market value is moving ahead with plans to develop its Meliadine project and a deposit near its Meadowbank mine in Nunavut, the company said ...

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