February, 2020

• 2 February

  Earnings an afterthought in panic-stricken market

  

  Bloomberg Investors who assumed the quarterly deluge of corporate results would determine the direction of stocks in late January have obviously found themselves with much bigger concerns to cope with. Earnings season is fast being forgotten in a market where cascading fear about the human toll of coronavirus has come to dominate sentiment. The S&P 500 just dropped the most ...

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• 2 February

  Pound ended tough month on bright note

  

  Bloomberg The pound ended a tumultuous month on a high note on the Brexit day. Sterling was on course for its biggest weekly gain since mid-December, a day after the Bank of England (BOE) kept interest rates unchanged, supporting the currency. Analysts expect it to climb more than 1% to $1.33 by the end of June, according to a Bloomberg ...

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• 2 February

  Uber suspends 240 Mexican accounts to prevent virus spread

  

  Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc has suspended 240 user accounts in Mexico to contain the potential spread of coronavirus. The users suspended had ridden with two drivers who came into contact with a possible coronavirus case, according to a statement posted to the company’s Mexican Twitter account. To date, there have been no confirmed cases of the virus in the country. ...

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• 2 February

  Brexit hangover kicks in for EU leaders debating budget gap

  

  Bloomberg Twelve hours after the UK formally left the European Union, the bloc’s poorer members gathered in an old Franciscan convent in southern Portugal to rally against a looming budgetary shortfall that’s partly due to the loss of British contributions. Brexit is deepening the rift between richer and poorer EU states as they clash on the bloc’s trillion-euro ($1.1 trillion) ...

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• 2 February

  WeWork to name real estate veteran as CEO

  

  Bloomberg WeWork plans to name Sandeep Mathrani as its new chief executive, according to a person familiar with the matter. Mathrani, who previously was chief executive of Brookfield Property Partners’ retail group, will replace Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham. The duo has served as co-CEOs of WeWork parent We Co since Adam Neumann stepped down in September following a failed ...

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• 2 February

  Twitter suspends Zero Hedge permanently

  

  Bloomberg The libertarian financial website Zero Hedge was permanently suspended from Twitter after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus. On its website, Zero Hedge’s pseudonymous author “Tyler Durden” said he received a notification from Twitter that he had violated “our rules against abuse and harassment.” Earlier, BuzzFeed ...

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• 2 February

  Musk adds $2.3b to his fortune in 60 minutes

  Bloomberg Elon Musk’s fortune swelled by $2.3 billion in the span of an hour after shares of Tesla Inc soared in extended trading on stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and an accelerated timetable for the new Model Y crossover SUV. The electric-vehicle maker’s stock, which closed at $580.99, surged 12% to $649 at New York, boosting the chief executive officer’s net worth ...

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• 2 February

  New IBM CEO is mastermind behind cloud strategy for growth

  

  Bloomberg In July of 2017, International Business Machines Corp executive Arvind Krishna walked into a routine meeting with senior leaders and delivered a surprise pitch that changed the course of the iconic 108-year-old company’s future. For months Krishna, the head of IBM’s cloud computing division, had been thinking about a way to connect clients’ most important data, which was often ...

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• 2 February

  How to make sense of the job security enigma

  

  It’s an economic mystery worth solving. Conventional wisdom holds that long-term job relationships between workers and their employers are breaking down. We’ve all seen and heard countless heart-breaking stories of firms firing large numbers of career workers. Labour markets provide less stability and security than in the past, it seems. And yet, this belief seems to clash with hard evidence. ...

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• 2 February

  Johnson chooses Huawei expediency

  

  There’s a fine line between a fudge and a workable compromise. In Britain’s handling of Huawei Technologies Co., Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just about managed to secure the latter. The UK has brushed off the US’s complaints and decided to allow its telecoms operators to install equipment made by “high-risk vendors” — read: Huawei — in their networks. But ...

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