June, 2018

• 27 June

  PBOC’s cash dump is not a market rescue

  

  Bloomberg China’s latest monetary policy move, due to take effect on July 5, won’t do much for investors seeking respite from a falling stock market or slumping yuan. 500 billion yuan ($75.7 billion) out of 700 billion yuan freed up by a cut in reserve-ratios announced June 24 is intended to assist banks in funding debt-to-equity swaps — a key …

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• 27 June

  Bank of America sued over ‘Ponzi scheme’

  

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. was accused in a lawsuit of providing more than 100 accounts used to perpetrate what the US regulators called a $102 million Ponzi scheme. The class-action suit filed on behalf of people who lost money follows a complaint last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that five men and three companies defrauded more …

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• 27 June

  EU should act to prevent bank havoc: BOE

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) stepped up pressure on the European Union to remove threat that Brexit poses to trillions of pounds of derivative contracts. Unless the EU follows the UK government in putting in place temporary workarounds, there could be havoc in financial markets when Britain leaves the bloc next March. Firms could find themselves unable to service trillions …

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• 27 June

  Deutsche Bank staff morale higher as lender boosts bonuses

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG may still face more years of restructuring, but at least the belief of its staff has stopped fading. The Frankfurt-based bank’s annual internal survey showed that 57 percent of employees are committed to the lender, unchanged from last year and arresting years of declines, according to a person with knowledge of the results. The share of …

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• 26 June

  UAE, Hong Kong non-oil trade hit $8.9bn in 2017

  DUBAI / WAM The UAE is the biggest trade partner of Hong Kong in the Middle East, as the value of the non-oil trade exchange between the two countries accounted for $8.9 billion in 2017, with 5.1 percent annual growth compared to 2016, Juma Al Keet, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade Affairs at the UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) said …

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• 26 June

  UAE, UK discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations

  ABU DHABI / WAM Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, on Tuesday received Lt General Sir John Lorimer, UK’s Defence Senior Adviser on the Middle East, and his accompanying delegation. Al Dhaheri welcomed Lt General Lorimer and praised the relations between the UAE and UK which he said are witnessing great development across various sectors. …

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• 26 June

  Petrofac secures orders worth $1.8 billion in H1

  

  LONDON / WAM UAE-linked Petrofac, a leading international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, has secured new orders worth $1.8 billion in the first half of 2018, according to an update released to the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday. “We are trading in line with expectations, delivering best-in-class project execution, continued momentum in new orders …

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• 26 June

  China trade fight puts billions in US energy projects in doubt

  

  Bloomberg China Energy Investment Corp pledged almost $84 billion in shale gas and chemical manufacturing projects across West Virginia after President Donald Trump’s trade mission to Beijing in November, but when it came time to discuss details officials were a no-show. The chief executive and other officers of the world’s largest power company cancelled a visit to a petrochemical conference …

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• 26 June

  Sempra Energy to meet activist investors to discuss a truce

  Bloomberg Sempra Energy met with activist investors Elliott Management Corp. and Bluescape Resources to try and reach a truce ahead of its analyst conference set for Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter. The two sides met in Washington to discuss whether Sempra would give the activists board seats and consider setting up a committee to weigh options to …

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• 26 June

  US losing ground in race for energy efficiency

  

  Bloomberg Italy and Germany tied for first place in the worldwide energy-efficiency race, according to a biennial international scorecard released on Tuesday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. France, the United Kingdom and Japan followed suit. The United States fell, from 8th in 2016, to 10th in the new ranking of the 25 largest energy-consuming countries in the …

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