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Bloomberg Sweden’s once battered credit market is finding relief in an unexpected place. As firms and governments try to recover, they’re selling more debt earmarked for ethical and social projects than ever before. That issuance has provided a lifeline to a market that suffered one of the worst crashes in its history just a few months ago. Anna Reuterskiold, a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Education and Human Resources Council, at a meeting chaired by HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was briefed on the Ministry of Education’s plan and vision on the possibility of re-opening educational institutions across the country. During the meeting, Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi School of Government (ADSG) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sandooq Al Watan, the national social initiative that empowers the citizens and society of the UAE through the provision of opportunities for growth, to start working together to identify top talent and ensure they have access to many of the ...

Bloomberg Need some parts for a nuclear plant? The government has a few to spare. Electrical transformers, motors, and pieces of special glove boxes designed to safely handle radioactive material are available as the government auctions off equipment from a now-abandoned nuclear project that was supposed to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. The online fire sale ...

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd, the conglomerate controlled by Asia’s richest man, said it has become free of net debt months ahead of a March 2021 target after raising more than $23 billion from stake sales and a rights issue. Its shares closed at an all-time high. India’s most valuable company said in a statement that it secured 1.16 trillion rupees ...

Bloomberg KKR & Co expects to at least triple its investments in Vietnam in the next decade as it seeks to capture rising demand from the Southeast Asian nation’s growing middle class. The US buyout firm’s investments in Vietnamese assets crossed $1 billion after a KKR-led consortium bought a stake in Vinhomes JSC, the largest real estate developer in the ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s tourism-revival strategy is to target big spenders seeking privacy and social distancing in the Covid-19 era, rather than try to attract a large number of visitors. The pandemic provides an opportunity to reset the sector, which had become reliant on Chinese groups and backpackers. Once the country’s borders are reopened and so-called travel bubbles are agreed upon, marketing ...

Bloomberg A year ago, Hong Kong protesters effectively killed an extradition bill that would subject them to criminal prosecution under China’s legal system for the first time — a victory that inspired them to demand real elections. Now Beijing has unwound all those gains, and gone much further in eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy. Details of a proposed national security law ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration, following a backlash, said it would release details about companies that received loans of $150,000 or more from a coronavirus relief program for small businesses. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last week the firms that got billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded aid wouldn’t be disclosed, sparking fury from Democrats and others. In a joint statement, the ...

Bloomberg There will be a European tax on giant digital corporations, even if a current project harbored by the OECD fails, European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said, in an interview with France Inter radio. “We’d rather do this within a global framework, as part of an OECD discussion, over the year 2020,” Breton said. He added that the US, ...