February, 2021

• 15 February

  Japan’s Nikkei 225 tops 30,000 for first time since 1990

  

  Bloomberg Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average topped 30,000 yen for the first time since August 1990, as it continued its charge back up through levels not seen since the collapse of the bubble economy. The gauge rises 1.9% to close at 30,084.15 on Monday, amid signs an economic recovery is intact at home and hopes of progress in US stimulus …

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• 14 February

  Shell files arbitration against Nigeria

  

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc launched arbitration proceedings against the Nigerian government over a long-running community dispute. The oil major’s Netherlands-registered holding company and a Nigerian unit filed a case at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, according to the Washington-based organisation’s website. Shell brought its claim against Africa’s biggest crude producer under the bilateral investment …

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• 14 February

  Vestas ups stakes for world’s biggest wind turbine

  

  Bloomberg Vestas Wind Systems A/S will start selling the world’s biggest offshore wind turbine, standing taller than the highest point of the Golden Gate Bridge. The giant machine, that’ll come into use by 2024, will compete with the skyscraper-sized turbines already on sale by its competitors. The industry is racing to produce increasingly larger machines that generate wind power more …

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• 14 February

  US home builders urge Biden to help slow housing inflation

  

  Bloomberg The biggest US homebuilders group urged the Biden administration to help increase lumber supply, saying record-high costs threaten to price potential home buyers out of the market and curb construction. The administration needs to remove import tariffs on Canadian lumber and urge producers to boost output, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said on its website. In November, the …

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• 14 February

  Speculative traders add billions to ‘meme’ stocks at new records

  

  Bloomberg In a quiet week by 2021 standards, the speculative excesses that have defined this bull market hit new records with little fanfare. Wild trades from penny stocks and “meme” cryptocurrencies companies surged to all-time highs. US equity indexes rises anew. And skeptics on the everything rally found more reasons to fret over market froth. Stocks have added more than …

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• 14 February

  Banks, property stocks could be losers from Singapore’s budget

  

  Bloomberg Equity investors expecting a big boost for Singapore’s benchmark index from its upcoming annual budget could be disappointed: heavyweight blue chips are unlikely to benefit from government largesse. Aimed at reversing the nation’s worst economic contraction since it became independent in 1965, Tuesday’s budget is set to focus on the pandemic-hit travel sector or firms with mandates in line …

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• 14 February

  Brent posts fourth weekly gain with global surplus dwindling

  

  Bloomberg Oil in London climbed for a fourth straight week as efforts to clear an oil surplus are seen holding the market over until demand comes back in force. Global benchmark Brent futures surged the most since early January, while West Texas Intermediate crude flirted with $60 a barrel for the first time in more than a year. Signs of …

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• 14 February

  ByteDance in talks to sell its Indian TikTok assets

  

  Bloomberg ByteDance Ltd is said to be exploring a sale of the India operations of TikTok to rival unicorn Glance, in an attempt to resuscitate the once-thriving short video sharing app that’s been banned indefinitely in the South Asian nation. The discussions have been initiated by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp conglomerate, according to people familiar with the talks, who declined …

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• 13 February

  Macquarie raises $1.94 billion for renewable energy fund

  

  Bloomberg Macquarie Group Ltd’s green investment arm raised 1.6 billion euros ($1.94 billion) for a renewable energy fund. The company’s Green Investment Group Renewable Energy Fund 2 closed after exceeding its target of 1 billion euros and received commitments from 32 pension funds and insurers from largely the UK and Germany, as well as from some sovereign wealth funds, according …

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• 13 February

  Goldman says ESG finance to become ‘core part’ of strategy

  

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is just getting started in the fast-expanding world of sustainable finance. The New York-based lender plans to issue more environmental, social, and governance (ESG) bonds on a regular basis as part of its plans to deploy $750 billion in sustainable financing, investing and advisory activity by 2030, according to Carey Halio, chief executive officer of …

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