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Bloomberg China’s biggest electric-car maker will gain a stock market listing in an asset swap valuing the state-backed manufacturer at 28.8 billion yuan ($4.5 billion) and giving investors a bigger chance to participate in the world’s largest market for new-energy vehicles. One of BAIC Group’s publicly traded affiliates, Chengdu Qian Feng Electronics Co., will buy Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., also ...

Bloomberg An arm of China’s sovereign fund is competing with buyout firms in the bidding for Nature’s Care Manufacture Pty, as the Australian supplement brand’s owner makes a second attempt at a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. China Jianyin Investment Ltd., a unit of state-run China Investment Corp. that’s known as JIC, is among suitors invited to ...

Bloomberg Wanda Hotel Development Co. corrected a statement on a planned sale of assets that had appeared to contradict an English-language version of an announcement at the unit of billionaire Wang Jianlin’s property-to-entertainment conglomerate. The Chinese-language announcement of a pending acquisition was mistaken and should have referred to a “very substantial disposal”, the hotel unit said in a Hong Kong ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. is nearing a deal to invest about $400 million in Ping An Insurance (Group) Co.’s health-care portal ahead of the Chinese company’s initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Ping An unit, known as Good Doctor, aims to file an IPO application with the Hong Kong stock exchange as soon as the ...

Bloomberg Offshore bonds volumes from India are set to gather pace after a banner year as companies tap the lowest borrowing costs in a decade to pay for buying assets locally and abroad. That’s the view of Citigroup Inc., which forecasts sales of debt denominated in US dollar, euro and yen in 2018 to be as good as last year ...

Bloomberg Singapore should remain open to adjusting levels of foreign workers while not threatening job and wage opportunities for native residents, Monetary Authority of Singapore Managing Director Ravi Menon said. “It is not about how many foreign workers industry wants or society can afford to have, but what number and kind of foreign workers we need to maximise the job ...

Bloomberg Sanofi SA agreed to buy Bioverativ Inc., a spinoff from biotech giant Biogen Inc., for about $11.6 billion in a bid by France’s biggest drugmaker to gain treatments for rare blood disorders. The deal values haemophilia drugmaker Bioverativ at $105 a share, according to a statement from Sanofi. Sanofi shares fell 2.6 percent to 71.05 euros at 9:18 am ...

Bloomberg For the modern foreign-exchange trader, it’s now possible to find a date, hail a cab and trade $100 million—all through their mobile phone. The world’s biggest financial market is embracing the iPhone era as investors find new ways to work when they’re not on the trading floor. In a JPMorgan Chase & Co. survey of more than 400 institutional ...

Bloomberg Financial markets in Britain and the EU will face instability and significant business disruption if the UK exits the EU in March 2019 without a transition deal or final settlement on a number of crucial issues, a finance industry trade group warned. There are at least five key areas where financial firms need clarity from UK and EU policymakers ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May set out a plan to defend capitalism from capitalists, after the collapse last week of construction company Carillion Plc put at risk public-sector projects from roads to hospitals. In an article for the Observer newspaper, May pledged new rules to deal with executives “who try to line their own pockets by putting their workers’ ...