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Coach owner’s shares jump after raising full-year earnings outlook

Bloomberg Tapestry Inc shares jumped the most since November after the high-end retailer raised its full-year earnings outlook, citing more moderate currency headwinds and a sales pickup in China. The Coach owner now sees earnings per diluted share in the range of $3.70 to $3.75. That’s up from its previous range of $3.60 to $3.70 and above the average estimate ...

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Inditex dips after giving store staff in Spain 20% pay rise

  Bloomberg Inditex SA shares dropped after the owner of the Zara clothing chain agreed to raise the pay of its store workers in Spain by an average of 20%. The retailer agreed to pay all store workers in Spain a minimum of €1,500 ($1,610) per month, Spanish union UGT said in a statement. That’s a hike of up to ...

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Billionaire trio behind Americanas to lead $379m funding

  Bloomberg Distressed Brazilian retailer Americanas SA got court approval for a debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing plan of up to 2 billion reais ($379 million) through the sale of local bonds, with its biggest shareholders willing to fund up to half of it. The Rio de Janeiro-based company will sell 1 billion reais of local notes in a first tranche which ...

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US reopens Montana airspace over ‘radar anomaly’ concern

Bloomberg The US reopened airspace over Montana after temporarily ordering a closure to investigate a “radar anomaly,” hours after a third object was shot down in North America this month. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, a joint US-Canada military command responsible for aerospace and maritime warning, said it detected the anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. The aircraft ...

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Heathrow staff plans to ballot for strikes

  Bloomberg Heathrow Airport’s security, engineering and firefighting staff represented by the Unite Union will next week begin balloting for strikes, adding pressure to UK’s transport network which has been hit by a wave of industrial action. More than 3,000 members of UK’s Unite Union will start voting on February 17, with the ballot closing on March 17. These workers ...

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Rising India rates to upset PM Modi’s math on small savings

Bloomberg India proposed a lower-than-expected market borrowing program, as part of a plan that sought to bridge its budget deficit by boosting reliance on the nation’s small savings pool. The decision triggered the biggest drop in the benchmark 10-year bond yields in over two months. Bonds have since pared their gains, with the budget math increasingly looking daunting as commercial ...

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Bangkok-listed telecom firm weighs options for $3 billion tower assets

  Bloomberg Advanced Info Service Pcl (AIS), Thailand’s biggest telecommunications group, is considering options for its tower business including a stake sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The Bangkok-listed company has held talks with potential advisers for a strategic review for the assets, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Another option ...

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UK expects India free trade deal in 2023, says official

  Bloomberg The UK expects to reach a free trade deal with India and to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in 2023, Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said. Badenoch visited India in December in an effort to move forward with the deal, which aims to cut tariffs and open opportunities for UK services to operate in India. The UK ...

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Moody’s cuts outlook for four Adani firms after market slump

  Bloomberg Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook for Adani Green Energy Ltd and three other companies backed by Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, citing the plunge in the conglomerate’s stock market value in the wake of criticisms in a short-seller report. Referring to factors such as concern over the impact of any big jump in funding costs, the agency lowered ...

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SoftBank mulls stake sale in M&A adviser Raine Group

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp is considering selling its stake in the holding company of Raine Group, the merchant bank that’s advised on some of the Japanese company’s biggest deals, people familiar with the matter said. The potential stake sale would fit into SoftBank’s retrenchment from a deal-hungry technology conglomerate to one more focused on smaller investments, according to the ...

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