Bloomberg Bonds rallied from Europe to the US, with 30-year Treasury yields falling to the lowest since July, a move that was accelerated by traders unwinding their short bets. The 30-year US rate falls as much as 9 basis points to 1.79%, narrowing its gap with five-year yields to 72 basis points, within less than 1 basis point of the ...
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Tesla erases $199b in worst two-day rout in 14 months
Bloomberg Tesla Inc lost about $199 billion in value during its biggest back-to-back selloff since September 2020 amid a host of negative news. The drumbeat of adverse headlines reached a crescendo after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll that asked voters over the weekend if he should sell 10% of his stake in the electric-vehicle company was followed by news of his ...
Read More »SoftBank shares soar on plans for buyback of up to $9 billion
Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. shares surged as much as 10% after the company said it would buy back as much as 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) of its own stock, reverting to a strategy that founder Masayoshi Son has used in the past to benefit investors. The Tokyo-based company made the announcement as it reported financial results for the September ...
Read More »Mark Mobius bets on ‘50-year rally’ in Indian stocks as China slows
Bloomberg Veteran investor Mark Mobius has allocated almost half of his emerging-markets fund to India and Taiwan to help offset a slide in China shares that has dragged down returns from developing nations as a whole. “India is on a 50-year rally,†even if there are short bouts of bear markets, Mobius said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “India ...
Read More »Investcorp builds $1.16 billion European real estate portfolio
MANAMA / WAM Investcorp, a Bahrain-based asset manager which counts Mubadala Investment Company as its biggest shareholder, announced that it has completed the acquisition of ten UK industrial assets, comprising c. 660,000 sq ft, via four transactions for a combined purchase price of €56.7 million. Since launching its European real estate business in 2017, Investcorp has invested approximately €1 billion ...
Read More »Bouygues in talks to buy Engie’s Equans for $8.2b
Bloomberg French energy giant Engie SA entered exclusive talks to sell its services unit Equans to conglomerate Bouygues SA for 7.1 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in what would be one of the country’s largest deals this year. “Bouygues’ offer was the most compelling taking into account all criteria including financial valuation,†Engie, based near Paris, said in a statement. Bouygues ...
Read More »Lagarde faces widening split at ECB over EU’s inflation path
Bloomberg A rift is opening at the European Central Bank (ECB) over how rapidly monetary policy should respond to stubbornly high inflation. A key meeting to determine the fate of post-pandemic stimulus is just six weeks away, and opinions are diverging on whether price pressures will mostly fade or endure. The debate is unfolding as global policy makers try to ...
Read More »Biggest Kenyan bank’s 9-month profit rises 78%
Bloomberg Equity Group Holdings Plc’s profit soared in the first nine months of the year as the economy recovered and the Kenyan lender generated more income from business loans and the government securities. Net income from January through September grew by 78% to 26.3 billion shillings ($236 million) from a year earlier, the East African nation’s biggest bank by market ...
Read More »India’s banks must turn to markets for funds: Minister
Bloomberg India’s banks need to raise funds from markets for their growth rather than depend on the government for recapitalisation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. “Banks are today less burdened because books are cleaner,†Sitharaman said at the annual general meeting of the Indian Banks’ Association. “As a result they will able to go and raise money from markets. I ...
Read More »JPMorgan sells $3bn bonds in post-earnings bank boom
Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is selling $3 billion of bonds in the US investment-grade market, adding to a streak of debt transactions from big Wall Street banks including Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Bank of America Corp. The biggest US bank is selling bonds in a single-tranche transaction, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. ...
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