International News

Bloomberg Seven years worth of Ford Motor Co.’s most-popular SUV model are a step closer to recall in the US over mounting reports of exhaust fumes leaking inside. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has taken an interim step towards prompting the recall of 1.3 million 2011-2017 Ford Explorers, including 2016-2017 Explorer Police Interceptor models, according to a posting on ...

Bloomberg Portuguese Finance Minister Mario Centeno expects greater demand for his nation’s debt from a broader array of investors to spur lower borrowing costs both for the government and corporations, after the country’s credit rating was restored to investment grade status by S&P Global Ratings. “This has a very significant impact,” Centeno said in a telephone interview. “It allows a ...

Bloomberg Anthem Inc. reversed course and said it will offer Obamacare plans in Virginia, after a pullback by another insurer threatened to leave the state with large gaps in coverage. Anthem revised its 2018 offerings, saying in a statement that it would now offer plans in 68 cities and counties in Virginia. Around the US, insurers face deadlines at the ...

Bloomberg Consumer spending in Miami and Fort Lauderdale plunged more than 57 percent from a year earlier as Hurricane Irma caused residents to evacuate or take shelter, according to a report from First Data Corp. Information released by the Atlanta-based company, which tracks shopping activity through the transactions it processes, shows consumption peaked September 5 and then cratered September 8, ...

Bloomberg Could a Cardiff, Wales-based wafer company be the next big thing for UK technology investors? Investors trying to sniff out hidden Apple Inc. suppliers are betting on it, sending the shares of IQE Plc up more than 300 percent this year. The company is the second-best performer in the FTSE AIM 100 Index year-to-date and has also beaten every ...

Bloomberg Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. has received interest from potential buyers of the Excelsior hotel in Hong Kong in what would be a test of the resilience of demand for the city’s commercial real-estate assets that has sent prices soaring. There were at least five bids for the property valued at $3.8 billion, including a Chinese-backed consortium of Sun Hung ...

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said $975 million will not be enough to rebuild the southern city of Marawi, citing massive damage caused by the conflict between government troops and IS-linked militants that’s been running for almost four months. Duterte also said he wants the budget that was slashed from the Commission on Human Rights to be spent instead on ...

Bloomberg Toshiba Corp. is aiming to finalise a deal to sell its memory chips business to a group led by Bain Capital at a September 20 board meeting, despite opposition from partner Western Digital Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. Toshiba’s effort faces resistance because the Bain group now includes several Western Digital competitors, including Seagate Technology Plc, ...

Bloomberg Rising gold prices and government measures to enforce compliance in the Indian jewellery industry are deadening demand in the world’s second-largest bullion market at the start of the traditional festival season when buying usually explodes. “If you ask me, I wouldn’t purchase gold even if it was Diwali,” Prathamesh Mallya, chief analyst at Angel Commodities Broking, said, referring to ...

Bloomberg NTPC Ltd., India’s biggest electricity producer, has boosted natural gas-fired generation as a drop in hydropower, nuclear and wind energy increases demand for thermal power, according to company officials with knowledge of the situation. Plant utilisation at NTPC’s gas-fired stations has almost tripled to 60 percent in the past three to four days, said the officials, who asked not ...