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February, 2020

  • 4 February

    Forever 21 gets $81m bid from Simon, Brookfield, Authentic

    Bloomberg A group including two of Forever 21 Inc’s biggest landlords has offered to buy the bankrupt retailer for $81 million, a fraction of what the international fashion pioneer was once worth. The consortium of Simon Property Group Inc, Brookfield Property Partners LP and Authentic Brands Group LLC is seeking to buy substantially all of the company’s assets, according to ...

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  • 4 February

    Hudson’s Bay chief tied Europe sale to take-private deal

    Bloomberg Hudson’s Bay Co Chairman Richard Baker was in talks about selling the Canadian retailer’s stake in its European business when he started to formulate his own plan to take the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue private, according to a regulatory filing. The document offers a look into Baker’s role in the sale of Hudson’s Bay’s stake in a joint ...

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  • 4 February

    BP bucks oil industry gloom

    Bloomberg BP Plc surprised investors with a slight increase in its dividend, bucking the trend in what has otherwise been a bleak earnings season for Big Oil. In the final set of results for retiring CEO Bob Dudley, the London-based company offered some respite for investors who received nothing but bad news from BP’s peers. Big payouts, whether as dividends ...

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  • 4 February

    Asian LNG plunges to record low

    Bloomberg Asia’s natural gas price plunged to a record low on concerns the spread of the deadly virus that has stricken China will hurt demand already weakened by an unusually mild winter. The Platts Japan/Korea marker, a benchmark for liquefied natural gas (LNG), tumbled to $3.512 per million British thermal units, half the spot market rate in October when the ...

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  • 4 February

    Danish pension fund offers green product

    Bloomberg Denmark’s largest pension fund is offering a new product that gives customers the option of placing retirement savings in climate-focussed investments. PFA’s Climate Plus comprises asset classes from companies working on reducing CO2 emissions, combined with investments in projects such as offshore wind farms and sustainable properties, the fund said. The product, which will be made available to customers ...

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  • 4 February

    Alphabet misses analysts’sales targets; YouTube disappoints

    Bloomberg Alphabet Inc reported quarterly revenue that missed analysts’ estimates, and new sales numbers on YouTube also disappointed Wall Street, sending the shares down more than 4% in extended trading. Overall revenue, excluding payments to partners, was $37.6 billion in the fourth quarter, less than analysts’ projections of $38.4 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Advertising revenue in the ...

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  • 4 February

    Trump administration clears way for new currency tariffs

    Bloomberg The Trump administration is going ahead with controversial new rules that would clear the way for the US to start applying punitive tariffs on goods from countries accused of having undervalued currencies, the Commerce Department said. The move would give new muscle to US complaints about currency manipulation that have in the past targeted economies like China and Japan ...

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  • 4 February

    Elon Musk starts decade with a $13.5 billion gain

    Bloomberg Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person by a comfortable margin, thanks to Amazon.com Inc’s January surge that added $9 billion to his net worth. But no one, not even Bezos, is having as good a start to the decade as Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk. On February 3, shares of the electric-vehicle maker surged 20% ...

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  • 4 February

    Huawei, ZTE fight to stay off blacklist as US firms fear ban

    Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp asked US regulators to keep them off a list of companies deemed national security threats, a label that would bar the Chinese telecommunications equipment makers from selling gear to subsidised US carriers. Mobile broadband providers separately told the Federal Communications Commission that it would be costly for them to replace gear made by ...

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  • 4 February

    FB names Dropbox CEO to board

    Bloomberg Dropbox Inc Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston is joining Facebook Inc’s board. Houston, who co-founded file-sharing software company Dropbox in 2007, is a friend of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Houston has in the past turned to Zuckerberg for help running his own company. “He’s given me a lot of advice on company scaling,” Houston told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in ...

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