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Bloomberg Xpeng Motors, the Chinese electric carmaker planning another fundraising round, said it has produced 10,000 sport utility vehicles. The company, which is backed by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said in a statement it made its 10,000th G3 SUV in the city of Zhengzhou. Among the hundreds of EV startups in China, NIO Inc and WM Motor Technology ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc is revamping its organisation in Asia to put more focus on China as the company prepares to start manufacturing in the world’s largest electric-car market, people familiar with the matter said. The company is dismantling its Asia Pacific business unit and forming a new division for Greater China that will cover the mainland as well as Hong ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trud-eau’s government decided to proceed with the construction of a major crude oil pipeline, saying the project has met strict requirements on safety and consultation with Canadian indigenous groups. Trudeau’s cabinet approved the expansion of Trans Mountain, a state-owned pipeline that runs from Alberta to Vancouver. The project will add 590,000 barrels of daily shipping capacity, ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp., the California utility giant that went bankrupt five months ago amid crippling wildfire liabilities, has reached a $1 billion settlement with local government agencies that were harmed by blazes its equipment ignited. The company has been juggling the interests of wildfire victims, activist investors and state lawmakers and regulators as it tries to come up with a ...

Bloomberg Adobe Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped Wall Street estimates, signalling the Photoshop maker’s expanding prod-uct suite is continuing to fuel growth. Sales increased 25 percent to $2.74 billion in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, the San Jose, California-based company said in a statement. Analysts, on average, projected $2.7 billion. For more than a decade, Chief ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s plans to create a new cryptocurrency that can be used for everything from commerce to money transfers is facing pushback from angry US lawmakers. House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters urged the company to halt development of the token until Congress and regulators can examine it. Other lawmakers demanded hearings and questioned whether the coin, called ...

Bloomberg New York’s Senate has passed the state’s own version of the Green New Deal — a climate bill that will set the most aggressive clean energy target in the country, more than triple the state’s solar capacity and unleash wind power off the coast. The legislation, which was approved 41-21 and is expected to clear the Democratic-led Assembly, would ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The value of non-oil foreign merchandise trade through Abu Dhabi ports increased to as much as AED51.8 billion from January to March 2019, 3.1 percent up from AED 50.2 billion in the comparable period last year, according to figures released by Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre (SCAD). This was the result of a 37.7 percent increase in ...

Bloomberg Oil rose, reversing earlier declines, as the European Central Bank said it may pump more stimulus into the region’s economy and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies made progress in setting a date to discuss extending supply cuts. Futures gained as much as 4.5 percent in New York. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates drew up to AED111.7 billion in FDI flows during the period from 2016 through 2018, bringing its overall volume of foreign investments to circa AED511 billion. According to the World Investment Report 2019, released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the UAE ranked 27th globally in attracting FDI flows ...