November, 2019

• 2 November

  Mystery oil spill in Brazil could have been caused by Greek ship

  

  Bloomberg A Greek ship is being implicated by Brazilian authorities as part of a probe into a mysterious oil spill in the Latin American country. More information is being sought about the merchant vessel that may have been the source of the oil leak, according to statements from the police and federal prosecutor’s office. The ship, which wasn’t named, docked ...

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• 2 November

  Trump renews attacks on Dems over House impeachment vote

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Democrats’ impeachment efforts at his first campaign rally since the House voted to kick off the public phase of the accelerating inquiry. “The Democrat party has gone completely insane,” Trump told a cheering audience at a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi. He said the party is trying to overturn the 2016 election results ...

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• 2 November

  Evacuations rise in southern California as wildfire spreads

  

  Bloomberg A wildfire that erupted near Los Angeles has forced up to 8,000 people to flee as the tail end of a powerful windstorm takes its final swing at southern California. The blaze in Ventura County has ripped through almost 9,000 acres and threatens 2,300 structures, according to local authorities. Edison International has cut power to 625 nearby homes and ...

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• 2 November

  Dozens arrested as HK protesters defy ban

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters who rallied for a 22nd consecutive weekend despite authorities denying them a permit to gather. Police arrested dozens, and deployed a water cannon on black-clad demonstrators who had built barricades and threw fire-lit objects in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. Arsonists set alight an exit of a ...

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• 2 November

  54 killed in attack on Mali army post

  Bloomberg The death toll from an attack on an army post in eastern Mali rose to 54, making it one of the deadliest assaults on security forces since separatists and radical insurgents seized swathes of the nation’s north in 2012. The latest estimate of casualties was announced by government spokesman Yaya Sangare in a statement on Twitter. Reinforcements dispatched to ...

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• 2 November

  In Britain’s clash of radicals, there’s nowhere to hide

  

  Bloomberg In the week Boris Johnson became British PM, two men in northeast England were jailed for throwing bricks through the office windows of their local member of parliament in a politically motivated attack. The lawmaker, Helen Goodman, voted to stay in the European Union. People in her district of Bishop Auckland voted overwhelmingly to leave and she says she ...

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• 2 November

  Alibaba targets Nov window for $10b listing

  

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is deciding between launching a sharply reduced $10 billion Hong Kong share sale in November or delaying the deal till next year as global uncertainty mounts, people familiar with the matter say. China’s largest company is weighing its options for the city’s biggest first-time sale of stock since 2010, but the window for pulling off ...

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• 2 November

  Malaysia-Singapore rail project revived

  

  Bloomberg Malaysia is proposing to resume a rail project connecting its southern state of Johor to Singapore at a lower cost. The government is seeking to downsize the price tag by 36% to 3.16 billion ringgit ($756 million) with changes to the structure and scope of the project, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told reporters in Johor Bahru. Construction of the ...

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• 2 November

  Protest-hit Hong Kong crashes into recession

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s economy contracted sharply in the third quarter as it entered a recession, exceeding economists’ worst estimates of the damage from nearly five months of protests. Third-quarter gross domestic product retreated 3.2% from the previous three months, after a 0.4% contraction in the second quarter. That’s the worst slump since 2009, in the aftermath of the global financial ...

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• 2 November

  Taiwan bucks Asia slump with 2.91% GDP growth

  

  Bloomberg Taiwan’s economy grew at the fastest pace since the second quarter of last year as domestic investment and better-than-expected overseas demand helped avoid the worst of the US-China trade war. Gross domestic product expanded 2.91% in the third quarter, according to a statement from the island’s statistics bureau. That was the fastest rate of expansion since the three months ...

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