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Jaguar Land Rover dangled shiny keys

These days, any news seems to be good news for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). After Tata Motors Ltd.’s UK unit posted 120 million pounds ($152.8 million) of pretax profits and positive free cash flow for the quarter, the company’s US-listed shares rose as much as 10% in pre-market trading and bond prices ticked up. Both numbers remain deep in the ...

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Indonesia is turning Chinese with this debt binge

Indonesia was never keen to be part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. That hasn’t stopped it from embracing the Chinese way when it comes to financing roads and railways. The government of President Joko Widodo plans to spend more than $400 billion building airports, power plants and other infrastructure in the next five years, Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told ...

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Stocks slump as warning by bond-market rings louder

Bloomberg Stocks extended their global retreat on Wednesday as investors fled to bonds, driving yields down to multi-year lows in a fresh wave of risk aversion. Gold advanced. US futures slumped for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes, signalling an opening drop in New York. Declines in miners and tech companies pulled the Stoxx Europe 600 Index lower, after ...

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