July, 2018

• 10 July

  Amazon seeks to lure ‘grocery customers’ on its Prime Day

  

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. proved it can use bargain buzz to sell a lot of gadgets on a random day in July. This year, it’s hoping excitement around Prime Day gets shoppers to change how they buy groceries. Amazon’s fourth annual Prime Day — 36 hours of sales beginning July 16 — will be its first since closing the $13.7 billion …

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• 10 July

  Chinese tycoon to buy Irish plane lessor for $2.8bn

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng’s jewellery-to-property business empire will acquire Dublin-based Sky Leasing for about $2.8 billion, including debt, to bolster the group’s aviation business. Though the Cheng family’s Goshawk Aviation Ltd. announced the deal last month, it didn’t disclose the value at the time. Of the total, 70 percent of the purchase will be funded with debt and …

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• 10 July

  Airbus to EU: Go easy on PM May over Brexit

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders called on the European Union to acknowledge the British government’s new, softer negotiating stance toward Brexit, lending a measure of support to embattled Prime Minister Theresa May. “The Chequers statement appears to show that HM Government are going in the right direction,” Enders said at a German Chamber of Commerce event in …

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• 10 July

  Ethiopia Airlines to buy 20% Eritrean carrier stake

  

  Bloomberg Ethiopia’s national airline will take a 20 percent stake in Eritrean Airlines, the state-owned Ethiopian Press Agency reported, citing unidentified Eritrean media. Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, Africa’s biggest carrier by revenue, will also resume flights next week to Asmara, the capital of neighbouring Eritrea, the ruling party-funded Fana Broadcasting Corp. reported earlier, after the two countries made a historic agreement …

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• 10 July

  Airlines cancel 200 flights as typhoon Maria nears Taiwan

  

  Bloomberg Taiwan warned businesses and schools to prepare for extreme conditions as Severe Typhoon Maria closes in on the island, disrupting flights and curtailing futures trading. The typhoon could bring strong winds and heavy rains to northern and central Taiwan, Central Weather Bureau said in statement on Tuesday. Several local governments in the northern Taiwan including Taipei City, the island’s …

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• 9 July

  US stocks rally as greenback strengthens, Treasuries slip

  

  Bloomberg US equities joined a global rally that began in Asia as investors set aside concern about escalating trade tensions to focus on the coming earnings season. The pound erased gains after pro-Brexit official Boris Johnson quit as UK foreign secretary. The S&P 500 Index rose to the highest since mid-June and the Dow Jones Industrial Average popped through key …

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• 9 July

  China stocks rebound with biggest gain since 2016

  

  Bloomberg Chinese large cap stocks climbed the most in two years, bouncing back from a bruising run of losses in the lead up to the imposition of US tariffs from July 6. The yuan also rose after retreating for four weeks straight. The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.5 percent, the most since May 2016, following seven weekly declines in a …

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• 9 July

  JPMorgan maps out currencies to buy if recession is coming

  

  Bloomberg If a US or global recession is looming, it’s time to own the Swiss franc, Singapore dollar, US dollar and Japanese yen – and ditch emerging market currencies, according to analysts from JPMorgan Chase & Co. “Recessions are when creditors get to ask for their money back,” analysts including Paul Meggyesi said in a note. “Three of the top …

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• 9 July

  World Bank CEO adds to voices of worry over global debt pileup

  

  Bloomberg Global debt is becoming a bigger worry as the global policy tightening cycle takes hold, a top boss at the World Bank warned Monday. “After a decade of low interest rates, the corporate and public debt in many places has ballooned to a staggering $164 trillion,” Kristalina Georgieva, chief executive officer of the World Bank, said in an interview …

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• 9 July

  BOE on course for an August rate hike

  

  Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) policy makers are adjusting to an upheaval at the statistics office at the very point when they need as much clarity as possible to help decide whether to raise interest rates next month. The UK is this week shaking up the way it reports growth, publishing monthly updates and delaying its usual quarterly figures. The …

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