August, 2019

• 26 August

  Saudi Red Sea Development seeks to raise $3.5 billion

  

  Bloomberg The firm that’s transforming an archipelago, desert and mountains — an area about the size of Belgium — on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast into a global tourism destination is talking to banks to raise $3.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Red Sea Development Co. started discussions with local lenders for a 13 billion-riyal …

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• 26 August

  Oil rises as Trump says China wants to restart trade talks

  

  Bloomberg Oil jumped after US President Donald Trump said that China wanted to restart trade talks, potentially easing tensions between the two countries. Futures in New York rose as much as 1.5 percent, snapping the longest run of declines in more than five weeks. Trump’s comments reversed a drop of as much as 2.2 percent that had looked set to …

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• 26 August

  New US LNG export plans threatened amid trade war

  

  Bloomberg Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may have dodged the latest round of Chinese tariffs on US goods, but plans for new American terminals to ship the fuel abroad are under threat as trade war escalates. Tellurian Inc. and other developers will probably delay final investment decisions on multibillion-dollar US LNG export projects to 2020 from this year as the tensions …

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• 26 August

  India extends deadline for solar projects again

  

  Bloomberg India has extended a deadline to submit bids for building solar power equipment factories in the South Asian nation, in another delay to its efforts to boost its nascent domestic manufacturing capacity. The new deadline to submit bids for the tender is September 11 , Solar Energy Corp. of India said on its website Monday. The tender seeks to …

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• 26 August

  Shell appeals tax decision over Australian gas stake

  

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc is appealing a decision by the Australian Taxation Office that has left the company with a bill estimated at A$755 million ($510 million), the Guardian reported. The ATO has been battling with Shell’s local subsidiary for six years regarding tax treatment of its stake in the Browse gas project off the country’s northwest coast, the …

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• 26 August

  US equity futures advance amid twists in trade war

  

  Bloomberg US equity-index futures turned higher along with shares in Europe after a down session in Asia on Monday as investors assessed the latest developments in the Sino-American trade war. The dollar strengthened. Contracts on all three main US equity indexes rose after President Donald Trump said that prospects for a deal with China were better now than at any …

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• 26 August

  Hong Kong stocks slump, yuan slides to 11-year low

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong stocks slumped and the yuan weakened to an 11-year low as concern over the US-China trade war spurred risk-off sentiment. The Hang Seng Index closed down 1.9 percentin Hong Kong, after falling as much as 3.6 percent. Meat producer WH Group Ltd, AAC Technologies Holdings Inc and Cnooc Ltd were among the worst performers. The yuan slid …

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• 26 August

  Germany in uproar as negative rates threaten saving obsession

  

  Bloomberg Most Germans live by the credo that saving is a virtue, but the European Central Bank’s (ECB) negative interest rates risk making a mockery of the national obsession, prompting politicians to seek ways to insulate thrifty citizens and keep the burden on the country’s beleaguered banks. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz says he’ll look into whether it’s possible to prevent …

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• 26 August

  Pimco sticking with $500b Danish market as returns plunge

  

  Bloomberg Never before have interest rates in the world’s biggest covered-bond market been this low. And rarely has investor demand for the debt been so high. Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) is among investors embracing Danish mortgage-backed covered bonds, even as negative interest rates mean investors face built-in losses on some bonds. Data provided by Danske Bank show issuers are …

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• 26 August

  ECB sees need to counter doubt over ability to hit inflation goal

  

  Bloomberg European Central Bank (ECB) officials expressed concern at their latest policy meeting that some observers doubted their ability to restore price stability, prompting the Governing Council to plan for potential fresh monetary stimulus. Council members broadly agreed that a downward trend in inflation expectations was a cause for concern, and that the euro area’s economic slowdown was likely to …

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