Bloomberg Dan Loeb’s Third Point has taken a new position in American Express Co., saying Chief Executive Officer Stephen Squeri has positioned the credit card company for exceptional earnings growth. Amex could trade higher than $135 per share in the next 18 months as it benefits from initiatives to capture more consumer, business and international customers, the New York hedge ...

Bloomberg The most destructive series of wildfires in California history co-uld cost the state, insurers and homeowners at least $19 billion in damages, as firefighters struggled to gain control in swirling wi-nds across vast swaths of state. The carnage caused by fires north of San Francisco and near Los Angeles could be on par with the type of destruction triggered ...

Reserve Bank of India’s reputation for honesty is a major asset in a country rife with corruption. India’s government and the central bank have had disagreements, but the relationship has never looked so irretrievably broken as it does now. Before the global financial crisis, the finance ministry saw the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as an incompetent regulator, one that ...

A Donald Trump-inspired trade war between the US and China isn’t the reason for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. trimming its optimism. China’s e-commerce giant now sees full-year revenue of 375 billion yuan ($55 billion) to 383 billion yuan, the company announced. That’s 4 percent to 6 percent lower than it had expected previously. But the weakness comes from a competitive ...

In a recent Forbes article, astronomer and writer Ethan Siegel called for a big new particle collider. His reasoning was unusual. Typically, particle colliders are created to test theories — physicists’ math shows that undiscovered particles ought to exist, and experimentalists use colliders to see whether they really do. This was the case with the Large Hadron Collider, which was ...

Bloomberg Danish lawmakers want to find out whether the Estonian unit at the center of a massive money laundering scandal was used for illicit trades before it was bought by Danske Bank A/S more than a decade ago. Danske took over the banking assets of Sampo Oyj in 2007. That purchase, which included a tiny Estonian unit, left Denmark’s biggest ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s vice president warned asset managers that they’ll face tighter scrutiny as regulators try to steer against future financial crises. The ECB has grown increasingly vocal about the risks stemming from a rapid expansion of entities such as investment funds, which are taking on more bank-like tasks such as providing liquidity but which are regulated more ...

Bloomberg Some Chinese banks are struggling to comply with unprecedented regulatory targets for credit to private companies because they aren’t sure who to lend to, a sign that authorities’ urgency to reverse an economic slowdown is muddying policy. The confusion stems from China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission chief Guo Shuqing’s statement that at least a third of new loans ...

Bloomberg Steve Ashley, charged with turning around a slump at Nomura Holdings Inc.’s investment bank, faces one of his biggest challenges thousands of miles away from Japan. Britain’s exit from the European Union threatens to create “two centers” for financial products on the continent, Ashley, head of wholesale and global markets at Nomura, said on Monday in an interview with ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co has fired two community-lending and investment employees in connection with a US probe into the bank’s negotiation and procurement of low-income housing tax credits, according to people familiar with the matter. Rick Davis, a senior vice president, and Bob Klixbull, a vice president, were fired after being suspended earlier this year, the people said. The ...