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February 4, 2020 Aviation
Bloomberg An Air Canada passenger flight with 128 passengers on board landed safely at Madrid’s Barajas airport after the aircraft suffered damage following takeoff. The aircraft made its emergency landing “without incident†shortly after 7pm in Madrid and engineers were now checking it over, airport operator AENA said in a tweet. Flight AC837 bound for Toronto had earlier aborted its ...
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February 4, 2020 Retail
Bloomberg A group including two of Forever 21 Inc’s biggest landlords has offered to buy the bankrupt retailer for $81 million, a fraction of what the international fashion pioneer was once worth. The consortium of Simon Property Group Inc, Brookfield Property Partners LP and Authentic Brands Group LLC is seeking to buy substantially all of the company’s assets, according to ...
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February 4, 2020 Retail
Bloomberg Hudson’s Bay Co Chairman Richard Baker was in talks about selling the Canadian retailer’s stake in its European business when he started to formulate his own plan to take the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue private, according to a regulatory filing. The document offers a look into Baker’s role in the sale of Hudson’s Bay’s stake in a joint ...
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February 4, 2020 Energy
Bloomberg BP Plc surprised investors with a slight increase in its dividend, bucking the trend in what has otherwise been a bleak earnings season for Big Oil. In the final set of results for retiring CEO Bob Dudley, the London-based company offered some respite for investors who received nothing but bad news from BP’s peers. Big payouts, whether as dividends ...
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February 4, 2020 Energy
Bloomberg Asia’s natural gas price plunged to a record low on concerns the spread of the deadly virus that has stricken China will hurt demand already weakened by an unusually mild winter. The Platts Japan/Korea marker, a benchmark for liquefied natural gas (LNG), tumbled to $3.512 per million British thermal units, half the spot market rate in October when the ...
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February 4, 2020 Energy
Bloomberg Denmark’s largest pension fund is offering a new product that gives customers the option of placing retirement savings in climate-focussed investments. PFA’s Climate Plus comprises asset classes from companies working on reducing CO2 emissions, combined with investments in projects such as offshore wind farms and sustainable properties, the fund said. The product, which will be made available to customers ...
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February 4, 2020 International News
Bloomberg Alphabet Inc reported quarterly revenue that missed analysts’ estimates, and new sales numbers on YouTube also disappointed Wall Street, sending the shares down more than 4% in extended trading. Overall revenue, excluding payments to partners, was $37.6 billion in the fourth quarter, less than analysts’ projections of $38.4 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Advertising revenue in the ...
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February 4, 2020 International News, Uncategorized
Bloomberg The Trump administration is going ahead with controversial new rules that would clear the way for the US to start applying punitive tariffs on goods from countries accused of having undervalued currencies, the Commerce Department said. The move would give new muscle to US complaints about currency manipulation that have in the past targeted economies like China and Japan ...
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February 4, 2020 International News
Bloomberg Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person by a comfortable margin, thanks to Amazon.com Inc’s January surge that added $9 billion to his net worth. But no one, not even Bezos, is having as good a start to the decade as Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk. On February 3, shares of the electric-vehicle maker surged 20% ...
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February 4, 2020 International News, Uncategorized
Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp asked US regulators to keep them off a list of companies deemed national security threats, a label that would bar the Chinese telecommunications equipment makers from selling gear to subsidised US carriers. Mobile broadband providers separately told the Federal Communications Commission that it would be costly for them to replace gear made by ...
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