June, 2018

• 12 June

  Deutsche Bank expects another quarter of falling revenue

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG will probably report another quarter of declining revenue for the three months through June as it scales back investment-banking operations and cuts thousands of jobs. The lender will probably do “a little worse” than peers who have indicated they expect a flat top line, “given the quarter that we’ve had and the transition that we’ve been …

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• 12 June

  US mall owners ‘on their knees’ as buyer pool evaporates

  

  Bloomberg Landlords have malls they’d like to unload. But who’d want to buy them? As they battle the rise of e-commerce, US mall owners are trying to clear their books of fading centres so they can focus on the most-profitable ones. That’s proving difficult, with just a shallow pool of investors who are willing to take on a declining mall …

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• 12 June

  Government mulls selling 100% Air India

  

  Bloomberg India will soon revive the sale of its money-losing flag carrier with new guidelines after a recent attempt ended in a debacle last month, as the proposed terms deterred potential investors. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is ready to “re-examine” its privatisation process, including a clause requiring a minority state stake in Air India Ltd., said Subhash Chandra Garg, …

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• 12 June

  Mercari’s IPO mints a new Japanese billionaire

  Bloomberg Mercari Inc. priced its initial public offering at the top of the range to sell $1.2 billion worth of shares, a valuation that’s set to make its 40-year-old founder a billionaire. The online marketplace plans to sell 43.5 million shares at 3,000 yen apiece, at the top of the targeted range, including the sale of additional shares via a …

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• 12 June

  Swire Pacific unit Haeco surges as parent plans $382 million buyout

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co., a unit of Swire Pacific Ltd., jumped the most on record after the parent said it plans to pay a 64 percent premium for shares it doesn’t own, giving small investors an opportunity to exit after trading languished at minuscule volumes. The property-to-retail conglomerate, which already owns 75 percent of the company, proposed to …

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• 12 June

  Adidas’ high hopes for Russia’s World Cup thwarted by sanctions

  

  Bloomberg In 1980, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led dozens of countries to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow. An undaunted Adidas AG still sponsored the USSR’s Olympic team, becoming one of the first global brands well-known behind the Iron Curtain. This summer’s soccer World Cup should have had the German company cashing in big on its ensuing decades of …

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• 11 June

  Once cash rich, India’s demands erode 90% of ONGC’s warchest

  

  Bloomberg India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp., which once had $4.3 billion of funds, is now bleeding cash. The state-run company’s cash reserves have shrunk by more than 90 percent in the past year, after it was ordered to purchase the administration’s stake in a refiner and it paid a record dividend. ONGC’s reserves dropped to about 10 billion rupees …

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• 11 June

  No Brexit for energy as UK set to draw more power from EU

  

  Bloomberg As the UK government works to exit the European Union, the nation’s electric utilities are working to get closer. Power already flows between the UK, France, Ireland and Northern Ireland through four interconnector cables, and work is under way to more than quadruple the capacity of those links. The cables will establish a stronger physical tie with the continent …

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• 11 June

  Botswana coal miner sees opportunity in ‘shortages’

  

  Bloomberg Botswana’s sole operating coal mine will increase output almost threefold within seven years as it eyes export opportunities created by a shortage of the fuel that’s used to fire most of southern Africa’s power plants. Morupule Coal Mine in the east of the country will ramp up annual production to 8 million metric tonnes by 2025 from 2.8 million …

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• 11 June

  EDP says Three Gorges bid low, will seek details

  Bloomberg EDP-Energias de Portugal SA’s executive board reaffirmed that the 9.1 billion-euro ($10.7 billion) takeover offer from China Three Gorges Corp. is low and said it will seek more information from the bidder about its plans for the Portuguese utility. “The executive board of directors notes that there are merits in the strategic intentions of the offeror,” Lisbon-based EDP said …

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