March, 2019

• 11 March

  Thai Airways to buy 38 new planes to modernise fleet

  

  Bloomberg Thai Airways International Pcl, the nation’s flagship carrier, plans to buy as many as 38 new aircraft to help reduce maintenance costs after losses widened more than fivefold last year amid fierce competition and unpredictable fuel prices. The new aircraft, which are more fuel-efficient, would help trim operating costs and attract customers, President Sumeth Damrongchaitham told reporters in Bangkok. ...

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• 11 March

  Airbus sees 4 orders, 103 cancellations in 2019

  Bloomberg Two months into 2019, Airbus SE has logged cancellations for 103 jetliners and garnered a grand total of four new sales — and those orders were for the A220 plane manufactured in Canada by Bomb- ardier Inc. The deal for the A220s — formerly the Bombardier C Series — with Pacific Ocean carrier Air Vanuatu represented Airbus’s only new ...

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• 11 March

  Airplane pollution soars with no viable plan to rein them in

  

  Bloomberg Environmental activists recoil for a reason when the super-rich fly private jets to forums that preach carbon neutrality. Airplane pollution levels really are going through the stratosphere and nobody seems to have a viable plan to rein them in. While energy generation and agriculture currently dwarf aviation’s 1.3 percent share of all human-caused greenhouse gases, emissions from air travel ...

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• 10 March

  UAE to maintain output until oil markets stabilise

  Bloomberg The United Arab Emirates will continue to adjust its oil production until the market rebalances, the Opec member’s energy minister said. “We will continue to deliver on the Opec & non-Opec commitment for voluntary production adjustments, until the global market is re-balanced,” Suhail Al Mazrouei said on Twitter. “UAE compliance for the month of February 2019 will meet, if ...

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• 10 March

  Trump seeks deep cuts in renewables funding again

  

  Bloomberg The Trump administration is again seeking severe cuts to the US Energy Department division charged with renewable energy and energy efficiency research, according to a department official familiar with the plan. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy would see its $2.3 billion budget slashed by about 70 ...

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• 10 March

  $10trn global stock rally gets realty check from slow growth

  

  Bloomberg A $10 trillion global stock rally is showing signs of fragility, and you can blame the economy. Both the American and European benchmarks posted their biggest weekly losses since the darkest days of December’s sell-off, with the S&P 500 dropping 2.2 percent. While the week ended with the European Central Bank’s (ECB) dovish turn and President Donald Trump predicting a ...

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• 10 March

  Goldman Sachs cops to misstep on dollar call, eyes yen trade instead

  

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was half right about what it expected to happen with a more dovish-sounding Federal Reserve. But that didn’t save its US dollar trade — so it’s trying a different tactic. The firm’s recent recommendation to short the US Dollar Index (DXY) hit its stop — the level at which a trade is halted so losses ...

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• 10 March

  Fed officials emphasize March pause amid strategy rethink

  

  Bloomberg The policy shift under way at the Federal Reserve will affect new forecasts to be published later this month and also their longer-run strategy. Recent remarks by Chairman Jerome Powell, Vice Chairman Richard Clarida, Governor Lael Brainard and New York Fed President John Williams have all signalled their contentment with letting the policy rate rest at 2.25 percent to ...

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• 10 March

  Deutsche Bank makes deep cuts to 2018 bonuses

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG employees learned what bonuses they would receive, with many facing deep cuts and some bankers in New York and London receiving zero payouts, people with knowledge of the decisions said. Many of those who avoided large cuts to their 2018 rewards did so because they had guaranteed payouts, such as recent hires, the people said, asking ...

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• 10 March

  Nordic laundering response brings bigger fines, prison

  

  Bloomberg Hit by a money-laundering scandal involving their biggest banks, Nordic policy makers are stepping up the region’s defenses. Here is a list of actions and proposals made by governments and financial watchdogs across the Nordic countries. DENMARK Denmark has said it wants to implement some of Europe’s toughest anti-money laundering rules. Since the Danske Bank A/S scandal erupted last ...

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