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Bloomberg Singapore, one of the world’s easiest places to do business, is making it simpler for investment managers to register funds locally as the city-state goes after a bigger slice of the $69 trillion global asset-management industry. While many asset managers have offices in Singapore, most of their funds are still registered in offshore jurisdictions. A new corporate structure bill ...

Bloomberg Thailand expects to select a consortium by January to build a 225 billion baht ($6.9 billion) high-speed rail link connecting three international airports, one of the largest transport projects in its history. The agency overseeing the plan, the Eastern Economic Corridor Office, aims to make as much progress on the project as possible ahead of elections due from February ...

Bloomberg Renesas Electronics Corp., the second-biggest supplier of semiconductors used in cars, plans to acquire Integrated Device Technology (IDT) Inc. for about $6.7 billion to expand beyond the automotive sector into data centres and communications devices. The Japanese company will pay $49 a share, it said in a statement, about a 16 percent premium to the US company’s Monday close ...

Bloomberg Volvo Car Group will temporarily idle its brand new car factory in South Carolina after Hurricane Florence spurred orders to evacuate areas in the path of the Category 4 storm. “We have decided to shut down our plant tomorrow in light of the evacuation order that’s now in place for Charleston, Dorchester and Berkeley counties,” Stephanie Mangini, a Volvo ...

Bloomberg UK wage growth accelerated over the summer amid the lowest jobless rate in more than four decades. Earnings excluding bonuses rose an annual 2.9 percent in the three months through July, more than the 2.8 percent economists forecast. In July alone, basic wages rose 3.1 percent, the most since 2015, and vacancies are at record levels, the Office for ...

Bloomberg American carmakers are losing ground in a shrinking Chinese market, and their problems are mostly tied to a lack of competitiveness rather than the trade war, an industry body said. The market share of US brands fell to 10.7 percent in the first eight months of 2018 from 12.2 percent a year earlier, according to the China Association of ...

Bloomberg Europe’s space champions are urging buyers at home to favor their technology over that of foreign rivals, as competition intensifies from the likes of Elon Musk’s Space X. As executives from the space industry meet in Paris this week for the World Satellite Business conference, French satellite operator Arianespace is calling on Europe to translate its space sovereignty ambitions ...

Bloomberg The biggest mergers-and-acquisitions boom in Indian history has investment bankers preparing for even more dealmaking to come. Transactions involving Indian companies have reached $104.5 billion in 2018, trouncing the previous annual record with almost four months left in the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The tally may surpass $100 billion again in 2019, said Sanjeev Krishan, a ...

Bloomberg Protracted Brexit talks are weighing on the recovery prospects of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the carmaker that is already under pressure to keep up as the global automobile industry moves toward electrification and automation, according to its Indian owner. The focus of Tata Motors Ltd., which bought the maker of the iconic British marquees in 2008, is to ensure ...

Bloomberg China’s car sales fell for a third straight month as an intensifying trade dispute with the US and slowing economic growth are threatening to end the vehicle market’s almost three-decade expansion. Retail sales of cars, SUVs and multipurpose vehicles declined 7.4 percent to 1.76 million units in August, the China Passenger Car Association said in a statement. That compares ...