June, 2019

• 1 June

  Michael Kors owner slides after cutting full-year sales forecast

  

  Bloomberg Capri Holdings Ltd, the company behind Michael Kors and other luxury brands, tumbled the most in almost seven months after trimming its sales projection for the current year amid foreign currency weakness and lower revenue from wholesale. Capri sees revenue of $6 billion for the current fiscal year, the company said in its quarterly earnings report. That’s down from …

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• 1 June

  Tiffany on track for ‘longest losing streak’

  Bloomberg Tiffany & Co is poised to close in the red for the sixth consecutive session, the longest losing streak sense December 2016. Shares are down 10 percent in the six-day period, trailing the S&P 500’s decline of 3.5 percent for the same period. Tiffany is due to report quarterly results June 4, and analysts are projecting revenue to fall …

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• 1 June

  Warren, AOC flay Sears’ Lampert over severance pay

  

  Bloomberg Back when Eddie Lampert was campaigning for approval of his plan to rescue Sears, he emphasized his promise to give severance to employees who lost their jobs after the retailer went bankrupt. If liquidators wound up with the chain, he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren in February, “these employees would be getting nothing.’’ Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) criticised …

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May, 2019

• 29 May

  Oil slumps as US-China trade hostilities stoke growth fears

  

  Bloomberg Oil slumped as escalating trade hostilities between the US and China stoked fears of slowing global growth, overshadowing forecasts for a drop in American crude inventories. Futures in New York lost as much as 2.5% after rallying 2.1% following Chin- ese media suggestions on Wednesday that the nation could restrict rare earth exports to the US. American crude inventories …

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• 29 May

  US excludes China from currency manipulator tag

  

  Bloomberg The Trump administration again refrained from labelling China a currency manipulator, a decision that leaves one of the president’s campaign promises unfulfilled but avoids further escalation in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. China said on Wednesday that “relevant international organisations,” and not the US, are in position to decide whether a country is a currency …

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• 29 May

  Malaysia in talks with China firms for compensation on $2.24b pipeline projects

  

  Bloomberg Malaysia is in discussions with China-based contractors for compensation relating to pipeline projects worth 9.4 billion ringgit ($2.24 billion). The government is negotiating with China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co. and Huanqiu Project Management Beijing Co. on the total compensation to be paid by Suria Strategic Energy Resources Sdn., which was overseeing the projects, for the termination of the work, …

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• 29 May

  American refiners face summertime hurdles

  Bloomberg A global shortage of heavy crude will create hurdles for America’s key refining belts just as they ramp up gasoline production for summer driving season. In the Gulf Coast, dwindling heavy oil supplies have suppressed refining margins, while Midwest refiners may not reach the high run rates seen last summer. Gulf Coast profits from coking — a process where …

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• 29 May

  Stocks slump as warning by bond-market rings louder

  

  Bloomberg Stocks extended their global retreat on Wednesday as investors fled to bonds, driving yields down to multi-year lows in a fresh wave of risk aversion. Gold advanced. US futures slumped for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes, signalling an opening drop in New York. Declines in miners and tech companies pulled the Stoxx Europe 600 Index lower, after …

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• 29 May

  South Korea’s stock loses 2019 gains as trade war continues

  

  Bloomberg South Korea’s $1.3 trillion stock market became the latest victim of the US-China trade war, with its benchmark index losing all of this year’s advance on Wednesday. The Kospi index fell 1.3 percent to 2,023.32 at the close in Seoul, its lowest since January 4. Foreign investors sold a net 360 billion won ($301 million) of Kospi shares in …

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• 29 May

  Mispricing climate change may hurt financial stability, says ECB

  

  Bloomberg Climate change could hit bank balance sheets with a knock-on effect on financial stability, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned on Wednesday. In a special feature for its semi-annual Financial Stability Review on Wednesday, the ECB said problems will materialise if markets aren’t correctly pricing the risks stemming from extreme weather events and the transition to a low-carbon emission …

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