Bloomberg Chinese video-game live-streaming platform DouYu International Holdings Ltd and its shareholders raised $775 million after pricing its US initial public offering at the bottom of its marketed range. The company, which delayed its IPO amid market jitters in May, sold 44.9 million American depository shares for $11.50 each, according to a statement. Its existing investors sold 22.5 million shares ...
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French-US clash over tech tax casts shadow over G-7
Bloomberg A French-US clash over digital taxation overshadowed the start of a Group of Seven (G-7) finance chiefs meeting as France refused to flinch on its levy that would hit tech giants from Facebook to Alphabet’s Google. Just before an encounter with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the G-7 near Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire pledged to ...
Read More »Ericsson earnings miss estimates, says 5G in Asia to weigh on profit
Bloomberg Ericsson AB posted earnings that missed analyst estimates for the first time in six quarters and warned its rollout of 5G mobile networks in Asia would weigh on profits, in a rare setback to CEO Borje Ekholm’s turnaround efforts. With Ericsson battling Finland’s Nokia Oyj and China’s Huawei Technologies Co for pole position in 5G, Ericsson said the first ...
Read More »Siemens to resume $6.7b train deliveries to Deutsche Bahn
Bloomberg Siemens AG will resume deliveries on a 6 billion-euro ($6.7 billion) high-speed train order from its biggest customer, Deutsche Bahn AG, ending a three-month freeze that followed the discovery of an equipment fault, according to a person familiar with the matter. An announcement of the resumption in the handover of its flagship ICE 4 trains to the German rail ...
Read More »European car sales fall 7.9% in June, resume downward spiral
Bloomberg European car registrations fell sharply in June, resuming a downward spiral this year that has seen profit warnings at German manufacturer Daimler AG and a quarterly automotive division loss at rival BMW AG. Sales dropped 7.9 percent to 1.49 million cars, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said, the worst monthly decline since December. France and Spain had falls of ...
Read More »Blue Apron surges most on Beyond Meat partnership
Bloomberg Blue Apron Holdings Inc rallied the most since going public two years ago after announcing a tie-up with a hot brand: Beyond Meat Inc. The struggling meal-kit company will begin introducing products from the alternative-meat startup on its menus in August, New York-based Blue Apron said in a statement. The shares rose as much as 78 percent, their biggest ...
Read More »US antitrust boss is playing kingmaker in T-Mobile deal
Bloomberg Makan Delrahim, the US Justice Department’s antitrust chief, is trying to shape a deal combining T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp that he can pitch as a win for consumers. Here’s how he may do it. If the $26.5 billion deal is approved, it’s likely to include conditions that give satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp enough airwaves, prepaid ...
Read More »Telenor shares drop as stalling revenue growth cuts outlook
Bloomberg Telenor ASA, Norway’s state owned carrier and biggest operator in the Nordic region, slid as much as 4.4 percent after its earnings dropped in the second quarter and it cut its full-year outlook amid increased competition in its key markets. The company posted earnings before interest depreciation and amortisation of 11.1 billion kroner ($1.3 billion), missing an estimate of ...
Read More »Amazon faces probe as EU antitrust chief plans summer finale
Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is to be investigated by the European Union as the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager prepares for a summer finale to her five-year crackdown on US technology giants. The Dane, who heads the EU’s competition division, is poised to open a formal investigation into Amazon within days, according to two people familiar with the case, who asked ...
Read More »Britain wages rise at fastest pace since 2008 in tight labour market
Bloomberg UK wages grew at the fastest pace in 11 years in the three months through May and unemployment remained at its lowest rate since the mid-1970s. Average earnings excluding bonuses rose 3.6 percent, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. The number of people in work rose 28,000 to a record high, leaving the jobless rate at a ...
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