September, 2018

• 10 September

  Solar farms without subsidy sprout from Britain to Italy

  

  Bloomberg Next to a wheat field north of London, banks of solar panels in 35 neat rows are generating electricity without any support from the government. Despite Britain’s reputation for grey skies, the closely-held developer Anesco Ltd. is building the hybrid solar and battery facility in Milton Keynes with its own capital. It’s just one of about 15 photovoltaic projects …

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• 10 September

  AMLO targets $3.9bn in new oil investment to boost production

  

  Bloomberg Mexico’s next president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will allocate $3.9 billion in the budget next year to oil extraction in a bid to resuscitate flagging output. “We are going to allocate budget resources, we are going to make an effort to adjust current spending in order to have more public spending and from the private sector,” said Lopez Obrador, …

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• 10 September

  Exxon moves ahead on China projects as trade tensions simmer

  Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp., the US energy behemoth, signed deals to move ahead on a proposed multibillion-dollar petrochemical project and a gas import terminal in southern China, contrasting with trade tensions between the two nations that may escalate this week. The Irving, Texas-based company signed cooperation framework agreements with the Guangdong provincial government, it said in a statement, following a …

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• 10 September

  Malaysia scraps $3bn China pipeline plans

  Bloomberg Malaysia has finally scrapped three China-backed pipeline projects after halting work on them following the shock elections in May that saw an opposition alliance assuming power for the first time in the country. A finance ministry spokeswoman confirmed that the country has cancelled three China-backed pipeline projects. The Financial Times earlier cited Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng saying …

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• 10 September

  NIO has the electric-car look, but it’s no Tesla

  

  Hate to break it you, NIO Inc. is no Tesla. The Chinese electric-car company may have the trappings of the automaker of the future but ornaments won’t be enough to turn it into a genuine contender. A self-declared rival of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., NIO has been on the road rallying global investors for an imminent listing in New York …

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• 10 September

  Europe wakes up to risks after Danske Bank scandal

  

  Bloomberg Europe can’t allow itself another money laundering scandal like the one engulfing Denmark’s biggest bank, according to a growing list of regulators, legislators and even bankers now demanding better region-wide controls against such crime. Rasmus Jarlov, the minister in charge of financial legislation in Denmark, says the example of Danske Bank A/S is one from which Europe needs to …

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• 10 September

  Rupee tumbles to new record as India heads to halt decline

  

  Bloomberg The Indian rupee and bonds sunk after the current-account deficit widened to the most in five years, as an emerging-market rout raises investor scrutiny of countries with worsening balance of payments. The rupee slid as much as 1.3 percent on Monday to a new low of 72.6738, leading losses among Asia’s emerging-market currencies. Sustained weakening has prompted authorities to …

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• 10 September

  ‘BOJ to take time before next steps made’

  

  Bloomberg Bank of Japan watchers can rest easy and enjoy a late summer holiday because it won’t be making another policy tweak any time soon, according to a former BOJ official. “It will take time for the BOJ’s next policy step given the need for a consensus from the nine board members,” said Takashi Kozu, who held a wide-range of …

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• 10 September

  Egypt’s central bank gets reprieve as inflation slows

  

  Bloomberg Egyptian consumer prices rose at their slowest monthly rate since May, offering fresh evidence that the impact of fuel price hikes was abating and giving the central bank room to shift its focus from inflation to investments. Monthly inflation in August eased to 1.8 percent compared to 2.4 percent the previous month, according to data reported by CAPMAS, the …

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• 10 September

  Crypto growth nears ‘ceiling’, says Ethereum co-founder

  

  Bloomberg The days of explosive growth in the blockchain industry have likely come and gone now that the average person is aware of its existence, according to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. “The blockchain space is getting to the point where there’s a ceiling in sight,” Buterin said in an interview with Bloomberg at the Ethereum Industry Summit conference in …

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