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DHL to expand India warehouses on e-commerce boom, sales tax

Bloomberg India’s bustling e-commerce transactions and a planned new national tax system that’s expected to boost freight movement are prompting Deutsche Post DHL Group to expand warehouse capacity in one of the world’s fastest growing major economies. “We see business-to-consumer as the next big challenge, a big growth area and we really want to tap into that through businesses such ...

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Undervalued Sony poised to rise 39%

Bloomberg Sony Corp. shares are undervalued and could rise as much as 39 percent, Oasis Management’s Seth Fischer said at the Sohn Conference in Hong Kong. Sony has undergone a massive turnaround since Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai took the helm in 2012, jettisoning unprofitable businesses such as its Vaio personal computer unit, the chief investment officer of the Hong ...

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China ready to buy more treasuries as yuan stabilizes

Bloomberg China is prepared to increase its holdings of US Treasuries under the right circumstances, as officials judge the assets are becoming more attractive than other sovereign debt and as the yuan stabilizes, according to people familiar with the matter. Treasuries surged on the news, driving yields to the lowest since November. The people didn’t specify the exact circumstances for ...

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Ginza land prices jump 51% in four years

Bloomberg Land prices in Tokyo’s central Chuo ward, home to the famous Ginza shopping district, have jumped by 51 percent in four years. In Osaka, they are up by nearly half. Booming construction of hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and apartments, financed by record lending for real estate by Japanese banks, has driven the gains. Now some investors surveying Japan’s ...

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Drug prices become target for FDA as chief expands purview

Bloomberg The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is considering using the agency’s powers to bring more price competition to the market for generic drugs, targeting high-priced products by prioritizing the approval of additional competing treatments. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in an interview that the agency is looking at how to push applications to the front of ...

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German factory orders fall after two months of expansion

Bloomberg German factory orders fell after two consecutive months of expansion in a sign that growth in Europe’s largest economy may be steadying after a strong start of the year. Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, dropped 2.1 percent in April, after expanding an upwardly revised 1.1 percent in March, data from the Economy Ministry in Berlin showed on ...

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Dish hit with record $280 million fine for illegal robocalls

Bloomberg Dish Network Corp. must pay $280 million to the US and four states for using robocalls to consumers on do-not-call lists, marking what the government says is a record fine for telemarketing violations. US District Judge Sue Myerscough issued the order, directing the company to pay $168 million to the federal government and $84 million to California, Illinois, North ...

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Anglo American names new chairman

Bloomberg The century-old mining giant Anglo American Plc named Stuart Chambers as its new chairman less than a year after he steered UK chipmaker ARM Holdings Plc through a $32 billion takeover. Chambers, a former chairman at ARM and Rexam Plc, will join Anglo’s board in September and take over the post in November, the company said in a statement ...

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DEWA signs AED1.7bn contract with Siemens

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed an AED1.7 billion Operating Plant Service Agreement (OPSA) contract with German company Siemens. The 12-year contract includes providing maintenance, spare parts and gas turbine rehabilitation for the second phase of K-Station at Jebel Ali Power and Desalination Station, and the third phase of H-Station at the Al Aweer Power ...

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Foreign shares value on UAE markets hit AED97bn

ABU DHABI / WAM As much as AED97 billion is the total market value of shares owned by foreign investors on UAE stock markets in May 2019, accounting for a 12.8 percent of the total value of equities traded during the same period, which is estimated as much as AED756.5 billion. As per latest market statistics, stocks owned by UAE ...

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