Bloomberg Tesla Inc.’s revenue from China last year tripled to more than $1 billion, indicating better traction in the market Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has predicted could eventually become the company’s biggest. hina accounted for more than 15 percent of Tesla’s more than $7 billion of total revenue last year, according to a US regulatory filing. Sales from ...
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Exxon’s new CEO looks to shift investments to shale
Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. is trading in long-term projects that pump oil over decades for US shale drilling that can be switched on or off as crude prices change. Long a world leader in multi-billion dollar oil and natural gas developments that take years to build and even longer to profit, Exxon is diverting about one-third of its drilling ...
Read More »Oman gains ‘breathing space’ with jumbo $5 billion bond sale
DUBAI / Reuters Oman’s government has given itself breathing space from the pressure of financing a large budget deficit by selling $5 billion of international bonds, almost completing its entire foreign borrowing plan for 2017 in a single issue. Wednesday’s bond sale, in tranches of five, 10 and 30 years, was about double the size that most investors had ...
Read More »India’s Modi takes a dig at critics of currency ban
Bloomberg It’s not the economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at critics of his cash ban after government data showed surprisingly strong growth that helped India retain its position as the world’s fastest-growing big economy. “Well known intellectuals from Harvard and Oxford, who have been at key positions in the Indian economic system, had said the GDP ...
Read More »Lenovo sells property asset amid shrinking smartphone sales
Bloomberg Lenovo Group Ltd. will pick up about HK$1.7 billion ($219 million) from selling out of a developer of property and parking lots in central China, striking the latest real estate deal to shore up earnings battered by shrinking smartphone sales. The world’s largest PC maker struck an agreement to sell a 49 percent stake in the joint venture ...
Read More »Small firms yank Hong Kong IPOs after official crackdown
Bloomberg Four planned listings on Hong Kong’s small-company exchange, known for its wild price swings, were shelved this week in the wake of a warning that participants would be more thoroughly scrutinized. Logistics provider XiangXing International Holding Ltd. said it will postpone its initial public offering on the Growth Ente- rprise Market after receiving inquiries from regulators. Local lingerie ...
Read More »Aussie iron ore shows signs of topping out
Bloomberg This may be as good as it gets for the Australian dollar, the best-performing Group-of-10 currency this year. The drivers behind the Aussie’s two-month rally are being eroded as iron ore shows signs of topping out and Australia’s yield advantage over the US shrinks. The currency is almost 5 percent overvalued based on regression analysis linking it with ...
Read More »China seeks global support for cyber sovereignty framework
Bloomberg China, which tightly censors the internet, called on Thursday for a new model for governing the web based on rules and order rather than the unfettered access seen in democratic societies. Speaking in Beijing, foreign ministry and cyberspace affairs officials made China’s latest argument for being a global leader in managing the internet. Unveiling the country’s first cyber ...
Read More »Switzerland’s economy still fighting currency indigestion
Bloomberg Two years after Switzerland suffered a surge in the franc, the currency is still proving a challenge. While the move in 2015 didn’t cause a recession, the Swiss economy remains burdened with the aftermath: an exchange rate that the central bank continues to describe as “significantly overvalued.†That picture was reinforced by data on Thursday showing exports recorded ...
Read More »Yahoo punishes CEO in latest fallout from security breakdown
Bloomberg Yahoo is punishing CEO Marissa Mayer and parting ways with its top lawyer for the mishandling of two security breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 1 billion users and already have cost the company $350 million. Mayer won’t be paid her annual bonus nor receive a potentially lucrative stock award because a Yahoo investigation concluded ...
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