Bloomberg Chinese domestic equities are worth more than $10 trillion for the first time since 2015, when a record crash erased half the market’s value in months and saddled millions of investors with losses. The world’s second-largest stock market added $3.3 trillion since a low in March, helped by Beijing’s policies to encourage trading, a flurry of new listings that ...
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Mubadala invests $234m in drug discovery firm Evotec
Abu Dhabi / WAM Mubadala Investment Company on Tuesday announced that it is pumping 200 million euros into Evotec SE, a German pharmaceutical company that specialises in drug discovery solutions. Evotec SE said that it resolved a capital increase from its authorised capital without pre-emptive rights against cash. Evotec will issue a total of 11,478,298 new shares to Mubadala Investment ...
Read More »World economy faces uneven recovery: IMF
Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the world economy still faces an uneven recovery until the coronavirus is tamed even as it offered a less-dire view of this year’s recession following massive stimulus from central banks and governments. The fund now forecasts world gross domestic product (GDP) to shrink 4.4% this year, compared with the 5.2% drop seen ...
Read More »Union Properties posts AED509m profit in Q3 2020
Dubai / WAM Union Properties announced on Tuesday its financial results for the three-month period ended on September 30, with a net profit of AED509.2 million (approximately 12 fils per share), while the profit for the nine-month period of the current year reached to AED348.8 million (approximately 8 fils per share). With these realised profits, the group has cleared all ...
Read More »Global oil demand to recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2023: IEA
Bloomberg The oil market will suffer a long-lasting blow from the coronavirus, with demand taking years to recover and peaking at a lower level, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. After an unprecedented 8% drop this year, global oil consumption will return to pre-crisis levels in 2023, provided Covid-19 is brought under control next year, the Paris-based agency said on ...
Read More »Scotland’s SSE to sell energy waste plant stakes for $1.3b
Bloomberg SSE Plc rose after it agreed to sell its 50% stakes in two energy from waste ventures as part of its plan to focus on renewable generation. The Scottish utility will sell its holdings in Multifuel Energy Ltd and Multifuel Energy 2 Ltd to the European Diversified Infrastructure Fund III, a fund managed by First Sentier Investors, for a ...
Read More »Amazon’s Prime Day steals rivals’ Black Friday spotlight
Bloomberg Amazon.com’s two-day Prime Day sale kicked off on Tuesday, which is expected to give the world’s largest e-commerce company an early advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals still contending with pandemic-spooked consumers wary of battling Black Friday crowds. With Prime Day delayed to October from July this year, Amazon single-handedly could yank the pivotal holiday season forward — a long-predicted “Christmas ...
Read More »Apollo’s Sun Country Air to revive IPO plans
Bloomberg Apollo Global Management Inc’s Sun Country Airlines is planning to restart its push for an initial public offering as soon as next year if travel demand picks up across the industry, said the carrier’s top executive. Sun Country’s core business of taking Midwest leisure travellers to Florida, Las Vegas and other warm-weather destinations has already recovered enough to turn ...
Read More »Allegiant weighs used Airbus planes, defies travel collapse
Bloomberg Allegiant Airlines is weighing purchases of used Airbus SE planes as soon as early 2021, bucking an unprecedented travel collapse that has gutted demand for jetliners. The carrier has been “inundated†with calls from airlines and aircraft lessors seeking to sell planes at deep discounts as they contend with the coronavirus pandemic, said Allegiant Chief Financial Officer Greg Anderson. ...
Read More »Singapore Air’s A380 restaurant tickets sold in 30 minutes
Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd said all seats on its Airbus SE A380 jetliner pop-up restaurants were reserved within 30 minutes of bookings opening. With flights largely grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore Airlines is trying novel ways to raise money, including using two of the superjumbos parked at Changi Airport as temporary eateries. A meal in a suite costs S$642 ...
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