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Crescent Point defeats activist, winning all board seats

Bloomberg Crescent Point Energy Corp. triumphed over activist investor Cation Capital Inc., with all of the oil producer’s board nominees winning approval from shareholders after a rancorous proxy battle. Cation nominees Dallas Howe and Herbert Pinder each garnered more than 100 million votes but still fell about 30 million votes shy of the nearest company nominees, Calgary-based Crescent Point said …

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Siemens, Idemitsu among suitors in Vietnam’s energy sell-off

Bloomberg Buyers from Germany, Japan, India and beyond are kicking the tires on Vietnam’s great state asset sale. The government’s hunt for overseas investment in some of the nation’s biggest energy companies has yielded interest from firms including Siemens AG, Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Indian Oil Corp., among others, according to Deputy Minister of Industry & Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong. …

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1,800% share jump sets Danish firm Ambu up for benchmark status

Bloomberg The best performer in the Stoxx Europe 600 index over the past five years just added to its remarkable share run with the biggest intra-day jump since 2000. Ambu A/S rose 18 percent at one point on Monday. The Danish medical-equipment maker had a “phenomenal” earnings report and could be set for more gains as trading volume makes it …

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Smart money selling emerging markets assets, says JPMorgan

Bloomberg Stocks down for a third successive week, bond yields at their highest since 2016 and a currency market replete with bears. Such have been the declines in emerging markets that the more sanguine commentators have begun saying the selloff has run its course and it may even be time to buy the dip. But JPMorgan Chase & Co. says …

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Bonds rise as Indian central bank announces $1.5bn debt purchase

Bloomberg Sovereign bonds in India rallied after the central bank said it will purchase debt to meet the cash needs of the banking system. The Reserve Bank of India said it would buy 100 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) of securities with maturities ranging from 2020 to 2033 maturities on May 17. The purchases comes after the shortest bond on sale …

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ECB warns on trade tensions as ‘economy’ falters

Bloomberg The European Central Bank warned that a rise in trade protectionism would undermine the global economy, and said the US would be among the worst-affected. The cautionary comments coincide with data showing factory orders in Germany unexpectedly slid for a third month in March, another sign of the weakness that’s dogged the euro-area economy since the start of the …

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OCBC drops on concern profit growth relied on loan provisions

Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) shares fell the most in a month after the Singaporean bank posted first-quarter profit growth that relied largely on a drop in loan provisions as lending margins stagnated. Southeast Asia’s second-largest bank slid as much as 3.2 percent in Singapore on Monday morning after Chief Executive Officer Samuel Tsien signaled that last quarter’s decline in …

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China set to give global finance sector the chance of a lifetime

Bloomberg China’s $42 trillion financial sector is set to open up to the world like never before. To deliver on longstanding pledges and help stave off the threat of tariffs from US President Donald Trump, Chinese officials have set a June 30 deadline to ease ownership and business restrictions for banks, securities firms, asset managers and life insurers. Securities firms …

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