November, 2022

• 22 November

  Tata to merge carriers under Air India, nix Vistara brand

  

    Bloomberg Tata Group is considering a plan to integrate its four airline brands under Air India Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said, as the sprawling company prepares to rebuild its faltering aviation empire. India’s largest conglomerate is also considering scrapping the Vistara brand, which is Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s local affiliate in the South Asian nation, the people ...

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• 22 November

  P&G fined $34,000 over worker death

    Bloomberg Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) was fined more than $34,000 following an employee’s death at a North Carolina facility. A 49-year-old worker at a plant in Greensboro died in May after being struck by a stainless steel tote. The state’s Department of Labour cited the company over three alleged serious violations of North Carolina occupational safety laws over ...

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• 22 November

  Xi’s common prosperity roars back in JD executive pay cuts

  

  Bloomberg JD.com Inc. is slashing salaries for about 2,000 managers by 10% to 20% and diverting some of those savings toward a $1.4 billion employee benefits fund, aligning China’s No. 2 online retailer with Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” campaign to share the wealth. Billionaire JD.com founder Richard Liu will donate 100 million yuan ($14 million) of his own money toward ...

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• 22 November

  Paytm dips on risk from Ambani financial foray

    Bloomberg Shares of One 97 Communications Ltd., the parent of India’s leading digital payments brand Paytm, plunged to a record low on Tuesday after Macquarie Group Ltd. analysts flagged risks from billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s foray into the financial services business. Reliance Industries Ltd.’s Jio Financial Services Ltd. “can pose a significant growth and market-share risk” for players such as ...

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• 22 November

  Investigations into Binance.com ongoing, Singapore police say

    Bloomberg The Singapore police is investigating Binance.com over a possible breach of local payment services rules. “Police investigations are ongoing and we are unable to comment further,” according to a statement from the police in response to queries from Bloomberg News. The probe started when the nation’s financial regulator referred the case to the white-collar crime unit of the ...

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• 22 November

  Central banks must stick to hikes as economy slows: OECD

  

    Bloomberg The world’s central banks must keep raising interest rates to fight soaring and pervasive inflation, even as the global economy sinks into a significant slowdown, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Tuesday. The unexpected surge in prices and its impact on real incomes is hurting people everywhere, creating problems that will only worsen if ...

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• 22 November

  ANZ Bank to withdraw from Myanmar over ‘operational complexity’

  

    Bloomberg Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) plans to withdraw from Myanmar by next year citing increasing “operational complexity”, underscoring how global companies are turning cautious on the country after a 2021 military coup. The move to cease operations in Myanmar is subject to local regulatory approval and the lender has been “working with its Institutional customers ...

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• 22 November

  Big markdown coming in private assets, says BMO investment chief

  

  Bloomberg Private equity firms and pension funds will soon face a reckoning as they adjust their private holdings to reflect lower valuations, according to the chief investment officer of BMO Global Asset Management. There’s “going to be a big markdown,” Sadiq Adatia said in an interview. “That might be worse than getting that pain gradually over the year.” Stocks are ...

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• 22 November

  ECB will increase interest rates further: Holzmann

    Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will continue to increase borrowing costs, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann. “We’ve recently raised interest rates strongly,” he said in Vienna. “We will raise interest rates further.” Still, the Austrian central bank chief — among the ECB’s most hawkish officials — said the Governing Council must be mindful of too strong ...

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• 22 November

  Five-year UK mortgage rate declines below 6%

  

    Bloomberg The cost of a five-year fixed-rate mortgage has fallen below 6% for the first time in almost seven weeks, providing a glimmer of hope for Britons affected by the UK’s home loans crunch. The average five-year fixed-rate mortgage falls to 5.95% on Tuesday, according to Moneyfacts Group Plc. That’s the first time it has dropped below the threshold ...

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