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Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser says the US and China are “closer and closer” to a trade deal, and that top-tier officials would be talking again this week via “a lot of teleconferencing.” Larry Kudlow’s “guarded optimism, maybe more than guarded optimism” on CBS’s “Face the Nation” came after China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that progress was ...

Bloomberg The parent company of Gree Electric Appliances Inc is considering selling almost all of its stake in the Zhuhai-based Chinese appliance giant in a deal that could be worth up to $6.4 billion. A 15 percent stake will be sold at a price no less than the average stock price of the last 30 trading days, Gree Electric said ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s financial regulator said it hasn’t uncovered any impropriety by DBS Group Holdings Ltd in arranging the sale of securities by troubled Singaporean water and power company Hyflux Ltd in 2016. DBS, Southeast Asia’s biggest lender, complied with regulatory requirements as both manager and distributor of the perpetual securities, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said. Hyflux scrapped a pact ...

Bloomberg One of China’s top commodity traders, Tewoo Group, is selling copper at below market rates as it grapples with a liquidity crunch, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company, which is owned by the local Tianjin government, is offloading some refined copper stocked in bonded zones as it unwinds financing deals with some banks, said the ...

Bloomberg One of Asia’s biggest sugar refiners is in talks to sell the sweetener in China, lured by the country’s “new generation” of consumers. MSM Malaysia Holdings Bhd is nearing the final stages of discussions to set up partnerships in China’s downstream sugar industry, Executive Director Khairil Anuar Aziz said. The refiner is looking to sell sugar for popular snacks ...

Bloomberg Flows into Indian equity mutual funds hit a five-month high in March, induced by the rally that recently lifted the $2.2 trillion stock market to a record. Stock funds took in about $1.7 billion, the highest since October, and more than double over the previous month, data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India, or AMFI, show. Indian ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump is preparing a novel campaign strategy for a president who is pulling the US from the international Paris accord on climate change, cheer-leading for coal, one of the dirtiest source of power, and suggesting that wind turbines cause cancer. He’s going to tout his environmental credentials. Administration officials are developing talking points on climate change and cultivating ...

Bloomberg Pinterest Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $1.28 billion in an US initial public offering that could value the company below the amount it reached in its last private valuation. The maker of online inspiration boards is offering 75 million shares for $15 to $17 apiece, according to a filing on Monday. Based on the total number ...

Bloomberg Investment firms Intermediate Capital Group and Merieux Equity Partners have agreed to acquire Italian generics drugmaker Doc Generici from CVC Capital Partners for an undisclosed amount. The pharmaceutical company may have been valued at about 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), people familiar with the matter said previously. Bloomberg reported last week that ICG and CVC were close to a ...

Bloomberg Germany’s economy will grow by less than half the rate previously expected this year, and risks to outlook include global trade disputes and a disorderly Brexit, according to the nation’s five leading research institutes. The gross domestic product of Europe’s largest economy will expand by 0.8 percent in 2019, the institutes predicted in their latest outlook published in Berlin. ...