December, 2018

• 17 December

  Empower to set up first unmanned ‘cooling plant’

  

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) is building a new 50,000 Refrigeration Tonnesm (RT) unmanned district cooling plant in Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC). Being built at a total cost of AED250 million, the project is part of company’s expansion plan of increasing the number of district cooling plants across Dubai, to serve major projects. This is also …

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• 17 December

  US stocks pare losses at start of Fed week; Treasuries gain

  

  Bloomberg The slide in US stocks slowed somewhat as investors weighed the impact of the Federal Reserve on growth in an economy already buffeted by trade, geopolitical tensions and a possible government shutdown. All major American equity benchmarks opened lower, before a tech rally pared some losses, as the Fed looked certain to raise rates after its policy meeting on …

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• 17 December

  Goldman: China’s yuan trading likely to get more volatile

  

  Bloomberg China’s exchange rate is likely to get more volatile in time as the country pushes greater international use of the yuan, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. While the yuan-internationalisation campaign hit a setback as China tightened regulation of capital flows in the wake of a messy 2015 devaluation, there’s increasing pressure for policy makers to take up the …

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• 17 December

  Brexit isn’t the only thing weighing on London property

  

  Bloomberg Brokers have been quick to blame the uncertainty around Brexit for downturn in London property values, but beneath the surface there’s a number of factors suggesting declines may be inevitable no matter what the outcome. Home price growth in the city has turned negative, according to a Bloomberg analysis of Land Registry data, months after analysts expected them to …

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• 17 December

  Fed enters brave policy world as rates near normal levels

  

  Bloomberg As the Federal Reserve approaches the final stages of monetary policy normalisation 10 years after it cut interest rates to zero, it faces the tough task of charting a less certain path while taking incoming fire from President Donald Trump. Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues are expected to ignore Trump’s criticisms and raise interest rates this week for …

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• 17 December

  Raid on Deutsche Bank hasn’t helped revenue, says CFO

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s quarterly revenue was impacted by the raids on its Frankfurt headquarters, Chief Financial Officer James von Moltke told Bloomberg. “The raid has not helped us on the revenue side, especially in a weak market environment like we have seen in December,” von Moltke said in email comments. “We expect these negative effects to fade away soon …

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• 17 December

  More banks in crosshairs as Denmark tax probe grows

  

  Bloomberg Denmark is trying to find out just how many banks were involved in suspicious stock trades executed for the sole purpose of getting a tax rebate. The transactions in question started more than a decade ago, after Denmark and Switzerland made it possible to claim back taxes on dividends through a revised double-taxation accord between the two countries. Nordea …

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• 17 December

  Borrowers brace for end of easy money

  

  Bloomberg Bankers and borrowers are bracing themselves for a difficult year selling eurobonds now that the days of easy money are coming to an end. January’s often the busiest month of the year for new bond sales but as credit markets lose their biggest backer and political threats loom — Brexit, Italian fiscal angst and trade woes — companies must …

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• 17 December

  StanChart spins off private equity unit

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc reached an agreement to separate its private-equity unit, ending more than two years of effort by Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters to get out of the business. Intermediate Capital Group Plc said on Monday that its funds are buying a majority of the bank’s private-equity assets in a transaction valued at about 790 million pounds ($997 …

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• 17 December

  Europe’s retail apocalypse spreads to online from malls

  

  Bloomberg Europe’s retail crisis is spreading from bricks-and-mortar stores to e-commerce as Asos Plc plunged the most in 4 1/2 years after warning that Christmas shopping got off to a disastrous start. The gloomy update from a UK online retailer that competes with Amazon.com Inc. and has furnished fashions to the likes of Meghan Markle shows that retail weakness is …

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