February, 2023

• 5 February

  Mike Ashley eyes £100m bet on UK malls

    Bloomberg British billionaire Mike Ashley is in advanced talks to buy two UK shopping malls valued at a combined £100 million, The Times newspaper reported. Ashley’s Frasers Group Plc is lining up bids for The Mall in Luton — a town just north of London — and the Overgate Shopping Centre in Dundee, Scotland. The deals would value the ...

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• 5 February

  US downs Chinese balloon, prompting Beijing protests

  

  Bloomberg The US shot down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, injecting new tension into relations with Beijing which called the move an overreaction. President Joe Biden said he ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to down the balloon as soon as possible “without doing damage to anyone on the ground.” The military decided the ...

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• 5 February

  India opposition attacks Modi on silence over Adani allegations

  

    Bloomberg India’s main opposition party ramped up the pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the Adani turmoil and planned a nationwide protest on Monday to highlight the risk to small investors. “What action has been taken, if ever, to investigate the serious allegations made over the years against the Adani Group?” Jairam Ramesh, general secretary ...

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• 5 February

  Pervez Musharraf, former military ruler of Pakistan, dies at 79

  

    Bloomberg Pervez Musharraf, the former four-star Pakistani army general who governed the South Asian nation for nearly a decade after coming to power in a 1999 bloodless coup, has died. He was 79. He died after a long ailment in Dubai, said Raza Bokhari, a former spokesman and close aide. Musharraf, who was Pakistan’s fourth military leader, was a ...

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• 5 February

  Kyiv expects new Russian offensive this month

  

    Bloomberg Ukraine’s government expects Russia’s new offensive to start this month, defense minister Oleksii Reznikov said at a press briefing in Kyiv. The one-year mark of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor will be Feb. 24. Reznikov said the main directions of Russia’s attack are likely to be from the east and south. He discounted the possibility of an invasion ...

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• 5 February

  Credit Suisse’s $100 billion data leak faces investigation

  

    Bloomberg Swiss prosecutors are investigating a data leak involving thousands of former Credit Suisse Group AG clients who’d reportedly held $100 billion with the bank, in a case set to further discourage whistleblowing in the secretive country. The Attorney General’s Office confirmed it’s investigating suspected acts of corporate espionage, breach of trade secrets and violations of banking secrecy laws ...

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• 5 February

  BofA CEO pay falls to $30 million for 2022

  

    Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan’s total compensation declined 6.3% to $30 million for his work in 2022, a year in which profit tumbled and the shares sank. The board granted Moynihan $1.5 million in salary and $28.5 million in stock-based incentive awards, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender said in a filing. A year ...

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• 5 February

  ANZ bank chief sees a ‘lot more rate rises’ coming in Australia

  

    Bloomberg The chief of one of Australia’s largest commercial banks warned strength of the nation’s economy suggests that markets and home owners should brace for “a lot more rate rises.” The comments from Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliot in local newspapers come ahead of an interest rate decision by the central ...

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• 5 February

  SBI profits top estimates amid decline in bad debt

    Bloomberg State Bank of India’s (SBI) quarterly profit rose 69% from the previous year, surpassing analyst estimates, amid heightened interest in the lender’s exposure to billionaire Gautam Adani. Net income was 142.1 billion rupees ($1.74 billion) in the three months through December, as bad-loan ratio narrowed and income from loans rose, according to a statement from the bank. That ...

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• 5 February

  Paytm sees narrower loss after growth push boosts sales

    Bloomberg Paytm, India’s leading digital payments brand, posted a narrower third-quarter loss after its drive to add customers boosted revenue. The net loss in the quarter through December shrank to 3.9 billion rupees ($48 million) from 7.8 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said in a statement. Revenue from operations rose 42% to 20.6 billion rupees, while total ...

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