November, 2022

• 21 November

  JPMorgan gives new parents 16 weeks of leave as perks boosted

  

    Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. made sweeping improvements to time off for bereavement, sick days, and caring for ill family members — including for the first time giving 16 weeks of leave to either parent for the birth or adoption of a child, regardless of which is the primary caregiver. The changes put the bank more in line with ...

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• 21 November

  PBOC’s warning on inflation signals policy easing may be limited

  

    Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) warned inflation may accelerate as overall demand in the economy picks up, suggesting the scope for further monetary policy easing may be limited. The central bank “will pay serious attention to the underlying possibility of rising inflation, especially changes in the demand side,” it said in its quarterly monetary policy report. At ...

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• 21 November

  Indonesia, Philippines deliver large interest-rate increases

  

    Bloomberg Monetary authorities in Indonesia and the Philippines delivered large interest-rate increases to curb inflation and support their currencies, while signalling their approaches to policy tightening may differ from here on. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas raised the key rate by a previously announced 75 basis points to 5%. Shortly after, Bank Indonesia lifted its benchmark rate by half-point to ...

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• 21 November

  IMF urges Nigeria to let banks set naira rate

  

  Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to reduce its interventions on the foreign-exchange market and allow banks to set the naira’s conversion rate. This will stop speculation around possible devaluation fuelled by dollar shortages, rising inflation, limited debt servicing capacity and restrictions on dollar transactions, the IMF said after a mission. “These factors ...

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• 20 November

  Apple prepares to get made-in-US chips in pivot from Asia

  

  Bloomberg Apple Inc is preparing to begin sourcing chips for its devices from a plant under construction in Arizona, marking a major step towards reducing the company’s reliance on Asian production. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook made the disclosure during an internal meeting in Germany with local engineering and retail employees as part of a recent tour of Europe, according ...

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• 20 November

  Fiat bringing 500 minicar back to US in reprise of electric flop

  

    Bloomberg Fiat, the Italian car brand owned by Stellantis NV, said it will bring the 500e, an electric version of its urban minicar, back to North America in 2024, roughly three years after it yanked the model from US dealerships. The Fiat 500e, which is currently made at its Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, has been doing well in ...

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• 20 November

  Google to pay $391 million over ‘crafty’ location tracking

  

    Bloomberg Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve a probe into controversial location-tracking practices that the Alphabet Inc. unit says it already discarded several years ago, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy settlement in US history. Google will “significantly improve” its location-tracking disclosures and user controls starting ...

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• 20 November

  EV maker VinFast plans US IPO

    Bloomberg VinFast, an electric vehicle maker backed by Vietnam’s richest man, is weighing whether to hold its planned initial public offering in the US as soon as January 2023. The unit of conglomerate Vingroup JSC could raise at least $1 billion but it could also be more depending on interest, one of the people said, asking not to be ...

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• 19 November

  UAE leadership’s support enhances country’s stature as int’l media hub

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM The Global Media Congress, which was held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, has successfully enhanced its stature as a pioneering regional and international platform for the media industry. The event’s first edition, which concluded on November 17 in Abu Dhabi, ...

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• 19 November

  AD Ports buys Spanish logistics firm Noatum in AED2.5bn deal

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM AD Ports group on Friday announced that it has acquired Noatum, a global integrated logistics platform with a presence in 26 countries and LTM revenue and Ebitda of AED6.91 billion and AED555 million, respectively. The total purchase consideration (enterprise value) for 100 percent ownership amounts to AED2.5 billion, implying an LTM EV/Ebitda of 4.6x. This value ...

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