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Bloomberg Singapore’s government outlined a plan to expand healthcare facilities for foreign workers as coronavirus cases in the city-state jumped, reversing a downward trend. The Ministry of Health confirmed an additional 932 cases, the vast majority of whom are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories. Five are Singaporeans or permanent residents. That brings total confirmed cases to almost ...

Bloomberg India has started running special trains to help people separated from their families by a nationwide lockdown to reach back home. The government started running the trains from May 1 to move migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other people stranded across the country due to the lockdown, the Ministry of Home Affairs said. The lockdown, which was scheduled ...

Bloomberg India’s top carmakers couldn’t ship a single vehicle to dealers in April as they shut production after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s biggest stay-at-home restrictions to stop the coronavirus from spreading. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, which produces about half the cars on India’s roads, and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, the nation’s biggest SUV maker, recorded no sales ...

Bloomberg Over a fifth of the UK’s listed companies issued a profit warning in the first quarter of 2020, compared with 17% in the full year of 2008, according to a report by consultants EY. The economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed up the number of profit warnings in the UK, with 301 issued in the quarter ...

Bloomberg Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund has been bulking up on stocks that got hammered during March’s historic market decline, adding to stakes in companies such as Carnival Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The fund has acquired holdings of 5% or more in seven US-traded companies since mid-March, according to filings by Oslo-based Norges Bank. The list includes ...

Bloomberg Canada’s newspapers are asking the federal government to follow France and Australia in forcing companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook, Inc. to pay to display their news content. “Both France and Australia have set deadlines to have mandatory solutions in place by July. That means paying for copyrighted content and sharing the advertising dollars and data that ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp. said it would replace most of its board as part of a broad overhaul of its governance structure as the California power giant pushes to exit bankruptcy. PG&E said only three of the 14 current directors will remain after the company exits Chapter 11 by mid-year, according to a statement. The utility’s chair, Nora Mead Brownell, will ...

Bloomberg Zero-percent financing deals hit a record last month as carmakers kept the US auto market from collapsing. More than one in every four new vehicles sold in April did so with 0% loans, according to market researcher Edmunds. By opening up the lending spigots, the US avoided a reprise of the almost 80% drop automakers experienced in China in ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) is starting to see consumer spending edge higher after plunging with the start of the coronavirus lockdown. The nascent increase, which follows a 30% drop, is showing up as consumers buy more groceries, restaurant meals, clothing and gasoline, Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said in an interview on CNBC. US aggregate spending averaged about ...

Bloomberg Calogero Lo Vetro couldn’t wait to get back to work, describing the scene he saw on his return as “something from a sci-fi movie,” with health monitors decked out like space men checking staff at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Mirafiori plant during its preliminary reopening. Lo Vetro, a quality-control officer at the Turin area factory whose models include Fiat’s ...