November, 2020

• 4 November

  Vestas shares fall as Trump risk spooks investors

  

  Bloomberg Shares of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s biggest wind-turbine maker, fell the most in three years as investors weighed the impact of the US election on the renewable energy sector. Shares fell as much as 13% before recovering some losses; down 7.7% in Copenhagen. The wind turbine maker posted a stronger-than-expected profit in the third quarter on Wednesday. …

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• 4 November

  Statkraft to buy British renewable energy developer

  Bloomberg Statkraft AS has signed an agreement to buy the London-based renewable energy developer Solarcentury Holdings Ltd, it said in statement. The 118 million-pound ($152 million) deal will hand the Norwegian state-owned utility six gigawatts of solar projects under development in Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Greece, Italy and Chile. “This acquisition is in line with our strategy to …

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• 4 November

  RBA slashes rates, announces $700bn bond-buying program

  

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank cut interest rates and announced purchases of longer-dated bonds to complement its yield curve control program for shorter-length maturities as it seeks to drive a rapid economic recovery. The Reserve Bank of Australia lowered its key interest rate, yield-curve target and bank lending facility rate to 0.10% from 0.25%, as forecast by an overwhelming majority of …

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• 4 November

  Banks seen raising their German assets by $462bn on Brexit

  

  Bloomberg Germany will take the lion’s share of the assets that lenders are moving out of the UK as a consequence of the Brexit, according to the Bundesbank. Non-German lenders are in the process of moving an additional 397 billion euros ($462 billion) of holdings to the country, taking their combined balance sheet there to 675 billion euros at the …

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• 4 November

  JPMorgan, Citi sending London staff home on latest lockdown

  

  Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc. joined rivals in asking the vast majority of employees in England to work from home following government rules to stop a surge in coronavirus infections. The Wall Street banks told staff in separate memos Tuesday that most workers will be required to work from home until further notice from Thursday, when a …

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• 4 November

  Credit Agricole receives boost from bond sales

  

  Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA got a boost from clients selling bonds and set aside less money for expected bad loans, joining peers in taking a benign view of the pandemic as Europe enters a second phase of lockdowns. Revenue from capital markets, the biggest driver of Credit Agricole’s investment bank, surged 25% in the third quarter to beat analysts’ highest …

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• 4 November

  BNP joins EU peers with trading beat, lower provisions

  

  Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA got a bigger-than-expected boost from trading and painted a relatively optimistic picture of the pandemic’s impact on its loan book, as it joined European peers in signalling an eventual return to dividend payments. Third-quarter revenue from trading fixed income, currencies and commodities surged 36% to 1.25 billion euros ($1.45 billion), the Paris-based bank reported, surpassing the …

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• 4 November

  SBI beats profit estimates

  Bloomberg State Bank of India (SBI) reported better-than-expected profit as the nation’s largest lender set aside fewer provisions for non-performing loans. The bank’s net income jumped 52% to 45.7 billion rupees ($610 million) for the three months to September, beating the 36.9 billion rupee average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. SBI set aside 101.2 billion rupees in provisions …

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• 4 November

  Moody’s raises its outlook for Deutsche Bank

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG had the outlook on its credit rating lifted by Moody’s Investors Service, which said Germany’s largest bank may finally be able to execute on a strategic plan after years of setting targets and then missing them. The lender’s “senior management and staff have laid the foundation for a sustainable turnaround,” Moody’s analyst Michael Rohr wrote in …

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• 4 November

  US futures erase decline as Treasuries, dollar advance

  

  Bloomberg S&P 500 futures fluctuated while Treasuries jumped amid concern that the US is heading for a contested election after President Donald Trump called for the Supreme Court to intervene. Contracts on the benchmark stock index swung from losses to gains. Futures on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 remained up more than 1.5% for most of the Asian and European day. …

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