Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $4 million to settle US regulators’ claims that its asset-management unit didn’t properly weigh environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in some of its investment products. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that the Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit “had several policies and procedures failures involving the ESG research its investment ...
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Crypto collapse opens 1,350% gap between stocks, price targets
Bloomberg Predicting the price of a stock a year from now is hard, even for Wall Street’s best analysts. But for investors who bought into the bullish expectations behind cryptocurrency-related stocks at the beginning of this year, those forecasts now look like pipe dreams. For 10 crypto stocks tracked by Bloomberg, with at least three analyst price targets at ...
Read More »US stocks advance before Fed minutes; dollar declines
Bloomberg US stocks rise as investors await the release of policy minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting for potential signs that the central bank may slow its pace of interest-rate hikes. The S&P 500 climbed after closing at its highest level since mid-September. The Nasdaq 100 jumped after wavering as the session started. Sentiment was boosted after latest ...
Read More »Airlines push for lone pilot flights despite safety fears
Bloomberg Airlines and regulators are pushing to have just one pilot in the cockpit of passenger jets instead of two. It would lower costs and ease pressure from crew shortages, but placing such responsibility on a single person at the controls is unsettling for some. Over 40 countries including Germany, the UK and New Zealand have asked the United Nations ...
Read More »Singapore Airlines to add flights to Asia
Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd. will add flights to East and Southeast Asia from early next year and trim some US services as it tweaks routes and plane allocations to get a head start over rivals as nations ease travel restrictions. The city-state’s flag carrier will resume flights to Busan in South Korea and increase services on Airbus SE A380 ...
Read More »Finnair plans to cut a quarter of its cabin-crew posts in Finland
Bloomberg Finnair Oyj revealed plans to eliminate about a quarter of its cabin-crew posts in Finland after the closure of Russian airspace upended a business model based on flights to Asia, forcing the firm into steep cost cuts. Finland’s state-controlled carrier is looking to scrap as many as 450 of its 1,750 flight-attendant post there and extend the outsourcing ...
Read More »Tata to merge carriers under Air India, nix Vistara brand
Bloomberg Tata Group is considering a plan to integrate its four airline brands under Air India Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said, as the sprawling company prepares to rebuild its faltering aviation empire. India’s largest conglomerate is also considering scrapping the Vistara brand, which is Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s local affiliate in the South Asian nation, the people ...
Read More »P&G fined $34,000 over worker death
Bloomberg Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) was fined more than $34,000 following an employee’s death at a North Carolina facility. A 49-year-old worker at a plant in Greensboro died in May after being struck by a stainless steel tote. The state’s Department of Labour cited the company over three alleged serious violations of North Carolina occupational safety laws over ...
Read More »Central banks must stick to hikes as economy slows: OECD
Bloomberg The world’s central banks must keep raising interest rates to fight soaring and pervasive inflation, even as the global economy sinks into a significant slowdown, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Tuesday. The unexpected surge in prices and its impact on real incomes is hurting people everywhere, creating problems that will only worsen if ...
Read More »ANZ Bank to withdraw from Myanmar over ‘operational complexity’
Bloomberg Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) plans to withdraw from Myanmar by next year citing increasing “operational complexityâ€, underscoring how global companies are turning cautious on the country after a 2021 military coup. The move to cease operations in Myanmar is subject to local regulatory approval and the lender has been “working with its Institutional customers ...
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