International News

Bloomberg China Evergrande Group, the country’s most indebted developer, reversed losses in Hong Kong trading after the company clarified that operations remained normal and it was compliant in dealings with a banking unit. The shares rose 3.7% on Monday after earlier sliding 5.3%. Evergrande said various “rumours,” including that it was resorting to widespread price discounts, were false. Chinese developers ...

Bloomberg Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant controlled by Walmart Inc, is in talks to raise at least $3 billion from investors including SoftBank Group Corp and several sovereign wealth funds, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup is targeting a valuation of about $40 billion and is in discussions with Singapore’s GIC Pte, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, ...

Bloomberg For the second time in six months, Chinese provinces are rationing electricity as the nation’s grids struggle to manage a surge in demand. This time, it’s partly because residents are blasting their air conditions to keep cool during an unusually warm summer. Cities in Guangdong, a manufacturing hub in the south that’s home to 130 million people, have been ...

Bloomberg Nium, a Singapore-based fintech startup backed by state-owned investor Temasek Holdings Pte, agreed to buy payments firm Ixaris for an undisclosed amount to expand in Europe before pursuing an initial public offering in the US. All of Ixaris’s 86 employees in London and Malta will join Nium, according to an emailed statement from Nium. Ixaris, based in London, is ...

Bloomberg The Group of Seven (G-7) rich nations secured a landmark deal that could help countries collect more taxes from big companies and enable governments to impose levies on US tech giants such as Amazon Inc and Facebook Inc. The agreement by the G-7 finance ministers in London satisfies a US demand for a minimum corporate tax rate of “at ...

Bloomberg Italy may get the first part of a more than 200 billion-euro ($243 billion) European Union (EU) pandemic recovery-fund package as soon as next month, Il Messaggero cited Public Administration Minister Renato Brunetta as saying. The country stands to receive 25 billion euros “between July and August,” the newspaper quoted him as saying in an interview. Measures approved recently ...

Bloomberg Swedish mortgage rates can decline by as much as 0.15 percentage points as larger market participants seek to reverse a slide in market share, SBAB CEO Klas Danielsson was cited as saying by newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Still, such a decline in mortgage rates “won’t be decisive” in spurring further house price gains, according to the chief executive of the ...

Bloomberg UK companies are on a hiring spree after the government relaxed lockdown rules, employing permanent staff at the fastest pace in 23 years and advertising the most vacancies in three years. The figures from consultant KPMG and online job placement agency Adzuna add to evidence that the economy is bouncing back strongly from last year’s recession. That will feed ...

Bloomberg German joblessness fell in May, adding to signs that the economy is starting to turn the page on the coronavirus pandemic as restrictions are loosened. The drop of 15,000 put the total number of unemployed at 2.74 million, keeping the rate at 6%, according to Federal Labour Agency. Germany’s infection rate has fallen sharply over the last five weeks ...

Bloomberg Canada’s labour market weakened for a second month amid widespread restrictions to control a third wave of Covid-19. The economy lost 68,000 jobs in May, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. That adds to the 207,100 positions lost in April. The unemployment rate rises to 8.2%, from 8.1%. Economists in a Bloomberg survey had predicted a loss of 25,000 jobs, ...