October, 2018

• 29 October

  Russia oil industry set to lose billions in ship-fuel overhaul

  

  Bloomberg Russia is set to suffer the biggest revenue losses from rules mandating cleaner marine fuels from 2020, because the world’s top exporter of the sulfurous residual oil that powers ships doesn’t look prepared for the change. Refineries across the world are bracing themselves for the once-in-a-generation shift intended to reduce pollution caused by ships. While plants in Europe and …

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• 29 October

  New York’s C2 invests $21mn in new projects

  Bloomberg C2 Energy Capital LLC, a New York-based clean-energy developer, raised $21 million to invest in new projects. About half of the money raised for the C2 Taiyo Fund I LP fund is already committed to specific projects. The fund will target renewables and storage investments, including a 51-megawatt solar portfolio being built in South Carolina. C2 develops, owns and …

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• 29 October

  Shipping costs make Europe a LNG hot spot

  Bloomberg Forget Asian hunger for energy or where liquefied natural gas (LNG) costs the most, at the moment it’s all about tanker rates. Northwest Europe has seen a boom in LNG imports this month, with cargoes arriving from atypical sources including Peru and Egypt, while the US and Russia are also sending tankers into the most liquid gas market outside …

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• 29 October

  Curb steel production, says ThyssenKrupp CEO

  Bloomberg Steelmakers in China and the rest of the world need to do more to reduce overcapacity, according to Guido Kerkhoff, CEO chief executive officer of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp AG. While China made good progress in curbing over-production, there’s room for even more cuts, Kerkhoff said. China has reshaped industry in past three years by closing plants, tightening environmental controls and …

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• 29 October

  US stocks rebound on deal news; dollar rises, euro falls

  

  Bloomberg US stocks rose amid deal news, as major averages pared losses after a brutal month of selling. The dollar advanced versus the euro as political uncertainty hit Germany, while Treasuries edged lower. The S&P 500 headed for just its sixth advance in October and remains on track for its worst month since 2010. The Nasdaq indexes outperformed after IBM’s …

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• 29 October

  Cboe set to shake up east European stock markets

  

  Bloomberg Cboe Global Markets Inc. is looking to shake up stock-market pricing when it starts handling shares of Polish, Hungarian and Czech companies next month in a move breaking up near-monopolies among eastern Europe’s largest exchanges. Cboe, the largest share-trading platform in western Europe since the acquisition of Bats Global Markets in 2017, has been meeting local brokerages in the …

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• 29 October

  Italy studies bank options amid relief from S&P rating decision

  

  Bloomberg Italy’s populist leaders are focussing on how to shield the nation’s banks in case market pressure worsens amid a standoff with the European Union over the government’s budget plan. Premier Giuseppe Conte asked government entities to prepare options to help the lenders if the decline in the value of their holdings of government debt requires them to recapitalise, Corriere …

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• 29 October

  HSBC shares rise as bank shows progress in taming its costs

  

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer John Flint delivered the kind of growth that investors have been waiting for. Flint, who took over this year, succeeded in posting third-quarter revenue gains that outpaced expenses: adjusted rev- enue climbed 9 percent while costs increased 2 percent. The shares in Hong Kong jumped after falling close to a two-year low last …

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• 29 October

  US regional banks to get rules relief

  

  Bloomberg Big regional US banks such as US Bancorp, Capital One Financial Corp. and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. are about to get more relief from regulators appointed by President Donald Trump. The Federal Reserve and other agencies — responding to legislation that’s meant to soften rules for smaller lenders — are set to propose this week that a series …

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• 29 October

  Germany’s oldest bank taps deal makers for wealth management

  

  Bloomberg Germany’s oldest lender is lender trying some new ideas. Hamburg-based Joh Berenberg Gossler & Company KG will abandon its dual-leadership structure in German wealth management, the unit’s new sole head Dirk Wehmhoener told Bloomberg in an interview. In order to increase assets under management, he intends to interlink wealth management more closely with investment banking. Acquisitions, however, are not …

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