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BP, Shell to face new shareholder challenge over climate in 2019

Bloomberg The activists who rankled Royal Dutch Shell Plc by filing climate-change resolutions for three straight years now are targeting other oil majors. A Dutch group that accumulates shares in oil companies in order to press them over greenhouse gas emissions, has filed another resolution against Shell for 2019. It also filed its first resolution against BP Plc and may …

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Investors press oil sector to resist methane rollback

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and BP Plc are being pressed by investors with $1.9 trillion in assets under management to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back Obama-era methane rules. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility sent a letter to 30 oil and natural gas explorers on behalf of 61 investors urging the companies to publicly declare …

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US equities slump with Europe as pound falls

Bloomberg US equities slumped with stocks in Europe and Asia as traders mulled the outlook for global growth and a potential escalation of tension between Washington and Beijing. The pound weakened as Theresa May was said to delay a crucial Brexit vote. The S&P 500 Index was led lower by banks and energy companies as technology shares fared better following …

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Pound slips over ‘Brexit-deal vote’ to 18-month low

Bloomberg The pound dropped to its weakest level in almost 18 months and government bonds rallied as UK Prime Minister Theresa May was said to have called off a crucial vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal. Sterling weakened versus all its Group-of-10 peers as the vote, set originally for Tuesday, would be rescheduled, according to a person familiar with …

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Banks comb US data for recession hints

Bloomberg Wall Street’s biggest banks are scouring US data for signals of an impending recession. On balance, they’ve been finding that a 2019 downturn still isn’t likely — though it’s becoming slightly more so. The current expansion is eight months away from becoming longest in postwar history. Most indicators remain solid enough to suggest it’ll get there. But sell-off in …

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RBI head quits amid rift with govt

Bloomberg Urjit Patel resigned as governor of India’s central bank amid growing differences with the government on addressing issues ranging from problems at the country’s lenders to utilisation of capital reserves. “On account of personal reasons, I have decided to step down from my current position effective immediately,” Patel said in a statement posted on the central bank’s website. Patel, …

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Commerzbank loses execs as corporate unit struggles

Bloomberg Commerzbank AG is replacing two top executives as progress in Chief Executive Officer Martin Zielke’s turnaround plan remains uneven. Michael Reuther, who heads the corporate clients unit, will leave when his term expires next September, while Chief Operating Officer Frank Annus-cheit is stepping down at end of the year for health reasons. The changes touch on two key pieces …

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Fed says growth still modest or moderate

Bloomberg Optimism over prospects for growth at US firms has begun to fade even as a majority of Federal Reserve districts continued to report modest to moderate economic expansion in recent weeks. “Most districts reported that firms remained positive,” according to a Federal Reserve report. “However, optimism has waned in some as contacts cited increased uncertainty from impacts of tariffs, …

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‘Credit Suisse to buy back stock, boost dividend’

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG will announce a share-buyback program worth “billions” and increase its dividend at an investor day this week, newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported, without saying where it got the information. There’s pressure on Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam to follow in the footsteps of Sergio Ermotti, head of rival UBS Group AG, and use his own money to …

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