January, 2019

• 23 January

  Alwaleed’s firm supports merger of Uber, Careem

  Bloomberg Kingdom Holding Co, one of Careem Networks FZ’s biggest backers, supports a potential merger between the Middle East ride-hailing firm and Uber Technologies Inc, according to the head of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s investment firm. “We don’t interfere nor are we party to the discussions, and if it ever happens I think we are supportive of it yes,” Chief …

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• 23 January

  China resists US-EU talks on global digital trade pact

  

  Bloomberg China risks being locked out of talks to establish new global rules to govern the $25 trillion e-commerce marketplace as the US and other nations resist an effort by Beijing to curb the plan’s ambition, according to people familiar with the talks. Negotiations, which are set to be launched on Friday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s …

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• 23 January

  Damac plans to invest $1.3bn in London market

  Bloomberg Dubai’s Damac Properties PJSC plans to take advantage of the weak pound to invest as much as 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in London’s real estate market. Chairman Hussain Sajwani said the Dubai-based property developer is looking at deals with values from 500 million pounds to 1 billion pounds in central London. Even if the UK left the European …

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• 23 January

  New York’s plan to kill coal lifts power prices

  

  Bloomberg New York’s plan to put the state’s last coal-fired power plants out of business hasn’t even been approved yet and electricity is already trading like they’re shut. The price of power in 2021 in New York City and other regions surged more than 30 percent beginning in May. The only major difference between then and now: a pending state …

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• 23 January

  US stocks surge on earnings surprises; dollar rally stalls

  

  Bloomberg US equities advanced alongside stocks in Europe as traders weighed the latest corporate earnings and moves to end the American government shutdown against lingering doubts over trade. The dollar’s six-day rally stalled and Treasury yields rose. The S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes all opened higher after IBM topped profit estimates and Procter & Gamble increase the upper …

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• 23 January

  Nasdaq, Citi invest in blockchain firm

  

  Bloomberg Nasdaq Inc and Citigroup Inc are among firms that are investing $20 million in Symbiont.io Inc, a New York-based company that’s applying blockchain technology to capital markets. Their support for Symbiont shows Wall Street’s enthusiasm for the technology behind Bitcoin hasn’t completely cooled with the collapse in cryptocurrencies. And it comes despite a growing pragmatism about the technology’s limitations …

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• 23 January

  Fed probes Deutsche Bank over suspicious Danske cash

  

  Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is examining how Deutsche Bank AG handled billions of dollars in suspicious transactions from Denmark’s leading lender, according to people familiar with the matter, further intensifying what could be one of the biggest money-laundering scandals ever. The Fed’s probe is in an early stage as it scrutinises whether Deutsche Bank’s US operations adequately monitored funds from …

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• 23 January

  Norges Bank seen sticking to a rate increase in March

  

  Bloomberg Norway’s central bank is seen sticking to the script this week to slowly lift interest rates as it assesses the first tightening in more than seven years. Policy makers in Oslo will leave the benchmark rate at 0.75 percent when they announce their decision on Thursday, according to all economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The meeting is in between monetary …

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• 23 January

  BOJ keeps monetary policy unchanged

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged as it cut its inflation outlook once again, underscoring how far away its price target is and how few options the central bank has for drawing closer. The BOJ maintained its yield curve-control program and asset purchases, it said in a statement on Wednesday, a result predicted by all but one …

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• 23 January

  South Africa inflation reaches mid-point of top bank target

  Bloomberg South Africa’s inflation rate reached the mid-point of the central bank’s target range of 3 percent to 6 percent in December — something the Reserve Bank says would allow for flexibility in dealing with price shocks. Consumer-price growth slowed to 4.5 percent from a year earlier compared with 5.2 percent in November, the Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said in …

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