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September 10, 2018 Stocks
Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. models are signaling that some developing-nation currencies have further to fall, even after a slide unprecedented since the financial crisis. While this year’s sell-off has pushed emerging-market exchange rates into undervalued territory by at least one measure, they are not yet as cheap as in early 2016, analysts at the investment bank including Mark Ozerov ...
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September 10, 2018 Energy
Bloomberg Next to a wheat field north of London, banks of solar panels in 35 neat rows are generating electricity without any support from the government. Despite Britain’s reputation for grey skies, the closely-held developer Anesco Ltd. is building the hybrid solar and battery facility in Milton Keynes with its own capital. It’s just one of about 15 photovoltaic projects ...
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September 10, 2018 Regional News
Bloomberg Mexico’s next president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will allocate $3.9 billion in the budget next year to oil extraction in a bid to resuscitate flagging output. “We are going to allocate budget resources, we are going to make an effort to adjust current spending in order to have more public spending and from the private sector,†said Lopez Obrador, ...
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September 10, 2018 Regional News
Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp., the US energy behemoth, signed deals to move ahead on a proposed multibillion-dollar petrochemical project and a gas import terminal in southern China, contrasting with trade tensions between the two nations that may escalate this week. The Irving, Texas-based company signed cooperation framework agreements with the Guangdong provincial government, it said in a statement, following a ...
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September 10, 2018 Regional News
Bloomberg Malaysia has finally scrapped three China-backed pipeline projects after halting work on them following the shock elections in May that saw an opposition alliance assuming power for the first time in the country. A finance ministry spokeswoman confirmed that the country has cancelled three China-backed pipeline projects. The Financial Times earlier cited Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng saying ...
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September 10, 2018 International News, Uncategorized
Bloomberg The biggest mergers-and-acquisitions boom in Indian history has investment bankers preparing for even more dealmaking to come. Transactions involving Indian companies have reached $104.5 billion in 2018, trouncing the previous annual record with almost four months left in the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The tally may surpass $100 billion again in 2019, said Sanjeev Krishan, a ...
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September 10, 2018 International News
Bloomberg Protracted Brexit talks are weighing on the recovery prospects of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the carmaker that is already under pressure to keep up as the global automobile industry moves toward electrification and automation, according to its Indian owner. The focus of Tata Motors Ltd., which bought the maker of the iconic British marquees in 2008, is to ensure ...
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September 10, 2018 International News
Bloomberg China’s car sales fell for a third straight month as an intensifying trade dispute with the US and slowing economic growth are threatening to end the vehicle market’s almost three-decade expansion. Retail sales of cars, SUVs and multipurpose vehicles declined 7.4 percent to 1.76 million units in August, the China Passenger Car Association said in a statement. That compares ...
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September 10, 2018 International News, Uncategorized
Bloomberg Alibaba is heralding the end of the Jack Ma era. A former English teacher who helped found Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. two decades ago, Ma outlined plans to hand the executive chairman role to Daniel Zhang, a finance veteran who’s presided over an ambitious expansion and won over investors in three years as chief executive officer. Ma will officially ...
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September 10, 2018 International News, Uncategorized
Bloomberg Apple Inc. will kick off a blitz of new products this week, ending a year of minor updates and setting the technology giant up for a potentially strong holiday quarter. Through the rest of 2018, the world’s most valuable public company will launch three new iPhones, revamped iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens, a new entry-level laptop with ...
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