November, 2018

• 24 November

  Airbus reveals plans for all-new narrow-body, re-engined A350

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE is hiring staff to help develop a proposed new narrow-body jet and a revamped version of its latest A350 wide-body, both due to be powered by a new generation of engine from the middle of next decade. The company is recruiting designers and engineers in Toulouse and Madrid to work on the short-haul model, as well as ...

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• 24 November

  Boeing slapped with more lawsuits before Indonesia plane crash report

  

  Bloomberg Boeing Co. was slapped with two more lawsuits this week by relatives of the victims of a Lion Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea with 189 people on board almost a month ago. One of the lawsuits filed by Kabateck LLP on behalf of Dayinta Dyah Anggana, whose 54-year-old mother, Nurul Dyah Ayu Sitharesmi, was among the ...

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• 24 November

  London home prices ‘out of reach’ amid Brexit concerns

  

  Bloomberg Discounts on London homes are creeping out further from the center as prices remain out of reach for many people and uncertainty surrounding Brexit starts to damp demand for homes in the capital’s cheaper neighbourhoods. “Vendors in outer boroughs are catching up and becoming more realistic about pricing,” said Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered ...

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• 24 November

  Danske row: Shell firms forced into limelight

  

  Bloomberg A setup long acknowledged as dubious but tolerated in many countries just got thrown into the limelight. Shell companies — constructions often used to hide the identity of investors keen to dodge authorities — played a key role in Europe’s dirty money machine as billions of dollars flowed from Russia into the west. Danske Bank A/S was allegedly at ...

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• 24 November

  Greece unveils salvage plan for its banks

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Greece released details on how it proposes lifting much of the burden weighing on the country’s lenders under a complex plan involving securitisations and the shifting of tax credits. The plan foresees the transfer to a special purpose vehicle of a significant part of banks’ non-performing loans at net book value, along with a portion of ...

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• 24 November

  Bank of Canada plans to buy mortgage bonds

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Canada plans to buy for the first time government-backed mortgage bonds in a bid to broaden the range of high-quality assets in its operations to manage its balance sheet. The move, which is part of a decision of including government-guaranteed debt issued by federal Crown corporations, will allow Ottawa-based central bank to offset continued growth in ...

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• 24 November

  South Africa raises rate first time since 2016

  Bloomberg The South African Reserve Bank increased its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than two years as it sees inflation risks remaining elevated. The Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise the benchmark repurchase rate to 6.75 percent from 6.5 percent. Of the six panel members, half preferred the increase and the rest favored an unchanged stance, ...

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• 24 November

  ECB officials warn of damage to Italy from fiscal fighting

  

  Bloomberg European Central Bank officials warned that uncertainty and tension over Italy’s expansive budget risk causing damage to the country’s economy in the long-run. “Italy’s current financing conditions are much too tight for a country with weak growth and low inflation,” ECB Chief Economist Peter Praet told Handelsblatt in an interview. Italian central bank Governor Ignazio Visco urged his government ...

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• 21 November

  Dana Gas ramps up gas output in Kurdish field

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading publicly-listed regional natural gas company, and its partner Crescent Petroleum, have announced achievement of a 30% increase in production capacity at the Khor Mor field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which the companies jointly operate on behalf of Pearl Petroleum. This increase delivers much-needed gas supply to fuel power ...

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• 21 November

  Oil rebounds as US crude stockpiles drop

  

  Bloomberg Oil recovered from a one-year low as industry data showing a drop in US crude inventories allayed some of the concern that a new surplus is amassing in global markets. Futures in New York rose as much as 2.7 percent after plunging more than 6 percent. The American Petroleum Institute was said to report a 1.55 million-barrel drop in ...

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