Bloomberg Netflix Inc., which has been spending billions of dollars on TV shows and movies for its online video service, lined up a $500 million revolving credit facility through five lenders including Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The company has the option to increase the credit line by $250 million, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. ...
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Ford’s Turkey production plant shuts down
Bloomberg An extended shutdown of a Ford production facility in Turkey is due to a supply shortage of a transmission produced in Bordeaux, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named because the issue hasn’t been publicly announced. The Ford Otosan plant in Yenikoy, Kocaeli province, a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. ...
Read More »Starbucks suffers worst rout in two years, targets China
Bloomberg Starbucks Corp. suffered its biggest stock decline in almost two years after cutting its forecast, renewing fears about sputtering growth at the world’s largest coffee chain. The shares dropped as much as 8.2 percent to $54.63 in New York, the biggest intraday plunge since August 2015. Slowing growth in the US forced Starbucks to cut its profit forecast for ...
Read More »HNA Group seeks more arrangers for delayed property IPO
Bloomberg HNA Commercial REIT is seeking to add arrangers to its planned Singapore initial public offering as Bank of America Corp. walks away from the deal, people with knowledge of the matter said. The property trust, backed by embattled Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co., has been reaching out to investment banks to gauge their interest in taking a senior role ...
Read More »Toshiba to give Western Digital sale notice as fight is on
Bloomberg Western Digital Corp. said it will move forward with arbitration to get a say over Toshiba Corp.’s sale of its chip unit after the Japanese company agreed to provide notice before closing. The companies announced they’d reached an agreement providing for two weeks’ advance notice. The two manufacturers, which are in a joint venture to produce memory chips, submitted ...
Read More »UK joins France, says goodbye to fossil-fuel cars by 2040
AT&T shares jump most in 8 years on surprise mobile gains
Bloomberg AT&T Inc. shares surged the most in more than eight years after the telecommunications giant posted a surprise wireless subscriber gain in the second quarter, showing it can fend for itself in a cutthroat price war. Second-quarter earnings topped estimates, and wireless customers rose by 127,000, compared with analysts’ average projection for a loss of 22,713. An offer for ...
Read More »Hyundai to bring new SUV to US after discounts
Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Co. is banking on a new compact SUV to reinforce its lineup and help arrest a slide in sales in its biggest markets, after misjudging the consumer shift away from sedans that forced the South Korean automaker to increase incentives for consumers. The compact model, called the Kona after a seaside town in Hawaii, will be introduced ...
Read More »Britain not to accept chlorine-washed chicken in US deal
Bloomberg Britain won’t allow in imports of American chlorine-washed chicken as part of the post-Brexit trade deal it’s seeking with the US, the cabinet minister responsible for food and farming said. “I’ve made it perfectly clear, and indeed this is something on which all members of the government are agreed, that we are not going to dilute our high animal-welfare ...
Read More »Orban’s migration policy gets slapped down by EU court
Bloomberg Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak Premier Robert Fico suffered setbacks to their controversial migration policies at the European Union’s top court. An adviser to the EU’s Court of Justice said provisional EU rules to relocate refugees from member states such as Greece and Italy, key entry points to the bloc, should also apply to Hungary and Slovakia. ...
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