May, 2018

• 23 May

  Wells Fargo cuts 22 jobs in currency trading

  

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co.’s foreign-exchange business cut 22 salespeople, according to a person briefed on the matter, the latest casualties of a slump in market activity. Affected employees worked in locations including St. Louis and Atlanta, where the bank is consolidating operations elsewhere, the person said. Some staff are being moved to other offices, while others leave the company, …

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• 23 May

  Kenya’s top buyer of banks looking ahead to profits

  

  Bloomberg SBM Holdings Ltd., the Mauritius lender that bought two Kenyan banks within months of each other, expects the combined operations to make a profit within a year. The second-biggest lender in the Indian Ocean island-nation is expanding in East Africa’s largest economy to use it as a hub for the rest of the region as part of a broader …

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• 23 May

  United Air board faces a long to-do list, from chairman to jets

  

  Bloomberg United Continental Holdings Inc. directors face a series of momentous decisions as the board gathers this week at the airline’s Chicago headquarters. The to-do list ranges from naming a new chairman to initiating a search for a new chief financial officer. There’s also the debate about long-range planes that will make up the company’s future fleet. The deliberations will …

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• 23 May

  MH370 search in peril as Malaysia PM Mahathir cuts costs

  

  Bloomberg The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is in peril once again as new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reins in government spending. After several extensions of what began as a three-month “no cure, no fee” contract signed by US exploration company Ocean Infinity in January, the government has given extra time until May 29 to wrap up the search …

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• 23 May

  Target’s online push pays off even as profit misses forecasts

  

  Bloomberg Target Corp.’s online sales push paid off in the first quarter even as profit missed forecasts, and the retailer said performance will improve further in the current period. Digital revenue rose 28 percent in the period ended on May 5, the company said. That contributed to a 3 percent lift in same-store sales, beating analysts’ average prediction, according to …

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• 23 May

  JC Penney seeks new chief as CEO exits

  

  Bloomberg Big Texas-based department-store chain seeks new leader: must be willing to tackle sluggish sales, failed fashion and $4 billion in long-term debt. JC Penney Co., once again, is searching for a new chief executive after Marvin Ellison was poached by home-improvement retailer Lowe’s Cos. on May 22, a surprise exit that sent JC Penney’s stock down to historic lows. …

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• 23 May

  M&S faces up to past errors as food, clothing sales fall

  

  Bloomberg Marks & Spencer Group Plc owned up to its mistakes, saying it needs to close more stores and catch up to rivals in e-commerce as Chairman Archie Norman tries to pull the UK retailer out of a crisis that has dragged on for more than a decade. A decline in sales of food and clothing in the fourth quarter …

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• 22 May

  Central bank: M1 hits AED517.4bn

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Central Bank announced that the Money Supply aggregate M1 increased 1.3 percent, from AED510.6 billion at the end of March 2018 to AED517.4 billion at the end of April 2018. The Money Supply aggregate M2 increased 1.5 percent, from AED1293.8 billion at the end of March 2018 to AED1313.1 billion at the end of April 2018. …

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• 22 May

  Mubadala to sell EMI Music stake to Sony in $1.9 billion agreement

  

  Bloomberg Sony Corp. is buying EMI Music Publishing, getting its hands on a catalog of 2.1 million songs from Beyonce, Carole King and other artists as it embarks on a new growth plan built on content and services. The Japanese company will buy about 60 percent equity interest from a consortium led by from Mubadala Investment Co. for about $2 …

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• 22 May

  China trade truce may help give US natural gas $30 billion boost

  

  Bloomberg China’s appetite for US liquefied natural gas may be about to get a lot bigger after the two nations agreed to pull back from the brink of a trade war. If China makes a substantial commitment to buying US LNG, it could bring $30 billion back into the country, according to a Height Securities LLC report. The White House …

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