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Moment of truth for Musk as made-in-China Teslas roll out

Bloomberg Elon Musk’s decision to assemble Tesla Inc cars in China required years of planning and billions of dollars in spending. Now comes the challenging part. The electric Model 3 sedans rolling off the assembly line at Tesla’s Shanghai plant — its first outside the US — face a market where total vehicle sales are expected to fall for a ...

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Cellnex starts 2020 acquiring towers from Morgan Stanley

Bloomberg Cellnex Telecom SA, the Spanish tower operator that has announced about 7 billion euros ($7.8 billion) of acquisitions since going public in 2015, is making its first deal of the year with the purchase of assets in Portugal. Cellnex, based in Barcelona, will acquire all of the towers held in a joint venture between Altice Europe NV, Morgan Stanley ...

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US court awards HP $439m in damages

Bloomberg HP Inc was awarded $439 million in damages against Quanta Storage Inc and its US subsidiary after a federal judge tripled a jury’s 2019 award for damages caused by a widespread scheme to inflate the price of optical disk drives. In October, a Houston jury ordered Quanta to pay HP $176 million in damages. US District Judge David Hittner ...

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Samsung to unveil new devices next month

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co said it will introduce new products at an event in San Francisco next month. The launch of “new, innovative devices that will shape the next decade of mobile experiences” will take place on February 11 at 11 am local time, the South Korean company said. In a teaser, it showed a rectangle and a square, a ...

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Pinterest bulls see a marketer’s goldmine in the making

Bloomberg Pinterest Inc has shed more than a quarter of its market value since the end of October, falling below its April initial public offering price. Yet many market watchers still think the social-media company has the right formula to boost advertising revenue and win over investors. Almost half of Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg recommend buying the stock ...

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Oil industry braces for Mideast turmoil after Soleimani killing

Bloomberg The US assassination of one of Iran’s most powerful generals has the oil industry bracing for something it has long feared and anticipated — direct military confrontation between the two adversaries. In the hours after President Donald Trump ordered the killing at Baghdad airport of Qassem Soleimani, who led Iran’s Quds force, crude oil surged, American workers began to ...

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China’s new measures to shore up troubled banks

Bloomberg China’s financial regulator said it will implement a series of measures to shore up nation’s troubled smaller banks and insurers while continuing a clampdown on shadow financing, property speculation. The regulator will introduce measures to eliminate bad loans and promote mergers, capital injections and the restructuring of high risk institutions, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission said in ...

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Dubai distributes 4,200 housing plots to citizens in two years

DUBAI / WAM The Director General of Dubai Municipality, Dawood Al Hajri, revealed that Dubai Municipality has distributed about 4,200 residential plots to citizens in a number of areas of the emirate during 2018 and 2019 and the allocation of these plots comes in implementation of the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime ...

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UAE condemns Turkey’s plan to send troops to Libya

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has condemned a decision by Turkey to send military forces to Libya in a stark violation of the international community’s and UN Security Council’s resolutions on Libya, according to Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1970 of 2011 to prevent the sale or supply of arms to Libya without its approval. Such a ...

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Inflation target at risk if oil hits $90: Philippines

Bloomberg Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas estimates oil prices will have to surge and persist at $90 a barrel for it to impact the central bank’s inflation forecast, Governor Benjamin Diokno said. It’s “too early to say,” Diokno said in a text message when asked if the latest geopolitical development between the US and Iran could threaten inflation targets and impact ...

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