Bloomberg India may export more sugar than previously forecast as higher yields boost supply in the world’s top consumer. Shipments may total 1.5 million metric tons in the next six to eight months, said Abinash Verma, director general of the Indian Sugar Mills Association. In January, he said millers were asking the government to abolish a 20 percent export duty ...
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Three Chinese insurers found to have violated investment rules
Bloomberg China’s insurance regulator found three domestic insurers violated foreign investment rules, giving the companies a month to “correct†the breaches. China Re Asset Management Co., China Life Insurance Co. and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. violated regulations on investable countries and regions, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission said in three separate notices posted on its website. The statements didn’t ...
Read More »Luye Medical picks banks to manage $500mn IPO
Bloomberg Luye Medical Group, the health-care services provider backed by acquisitive Chinese entrepreneur Liu Dianbo, picked banks to manage a Singapore initial public offering that could raise about $500 million, people with knowledge of the matter said. Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS Group AG were chosen after submitting proposals earlier this month, according to the ...
Read More »China home prices rise in fewer cities
Bloomberg China’s home prices rose in fewer cities in January as the government persisted with an almost two-year campaign to cool the market. New-home prices, excluding government-subsidized housing, climbed in 52 of 70 cities tracked, compared with 57 in December, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday. Prices fell in 13 cities from the previous month and were unchanged ...
Read More »NSE to indexers: Stay out of offshore dispute
Bloomberg India’s biggest exchange operator, which ended licensing deals with its global counterparts in an effort to rein in offshore derivatives, wants index compilers to stay out of the dispute. Vikram Limaye, chief executive officer of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd., said in an interview that he is asking MSCI Inc. to tell its clients to not use ...
Read More »Brexit delivers on pay but farmers worried about labour shortage
Bloomberg Some are handing out bonuses or raising pay, others are subsidising housing or upgrading mobile homes to include showers and central heating. Whatever they’re doing to attract or retain workers, British farmers are increasingly worried about a labour shortage. Brexit is delivering on at least one of the priorities for its ardent supporters as Europeans start to stay away ...
Read More »VW offers tempered forecast for 2018 on economy, diesel risks
Bloomberg Volkswagen AG offered a tempered earnings and sales forecast for 2018, citing the risk of a “slight†slowdown in the global economic growth that powers the car-buying market. Operating profit could increase by a fraction of a point to as high as 7.5 percent of revenue this year, Volkswagen said. Sales will rise 5 percent, but the forecast depends ...
Read More »Snap CEO Evan Spiegel got $638mn in year of firm’s IPO
Bloomberg Snap Inc.’s CEO Evan Spiegel is poised to become one of the highest-paid US executives for 2017, thanks to a $636.6 million stock grant he got when his company went public. The Venice, California-based maker of the Snapchat photo-sharing app awarded Spiegel shares equal to 3 percent of the outstanding capital stock when the initial public offering closed in ...
Read More »HP’s sales top estimates on holiday demand
Bloomberg HP Inc., the world’s largest personal-computer maker, topped analysts’ revenue estimates with strong computer and printer sales during the holiday shopping quarter, maintaining its momentum even as the industry stagnates. The Palo Alto, California-based company notched its sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, buoyed by Âhigher sales across all product lines in the period that ended on January 31, ...
Read More »Dropbox, valued privately at $10bn, files for US IPO
Bloomberg Dropbox Inc., the file-sharing company that’s been privately valued at $10 billion, filed for a US initial public offering, saying it was at scale and capable of moving fast. The company filed with an offering size of $500 million, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. That amount is a placeholder and is likely to ...
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