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VW to restate mileage on US gas-powered cars

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG will revise fuel economy labels on several gasoline-powered models and pay $96.5 million to drivers after an investigation discovered software that could optimise efficiency during government tests but not during real-world driving. A joint investigation between the US Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board discovered the automaker had equipped roughly 1 million vehicles with ...

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British banks face 25% earnings hit from no-deal Brexit, says Citi

Bloomberg As the likelihood of Britain crashing out of the European Union (EU) without a trading agreement rises, Citigroup Inc estimates that such an event could cut domestic banks’ earnings by as much as 25 percent. A “no-deal exit” would curtail the revenue of high street lenders as economic growth slows and interest rates remain depressed, analysts including Andrew Coombs ...

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India’s Modi creates bank giants to spur economy

Bloomberg India announced its most sweeping bank overhaul in decades, minutes before data showed economic growth in Asia’s No. 3 economy slumped to a six-year low. Four new lenders that result from a series of state-bank mergers will hold business worth 55.8 trillion rupees ($781 billion), or about 56 percent of the Indian banking industry, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ...

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