July, 2019

• 21 July

  Lawyers stranded in no-deal Brexit seek ‘ways’ to keep jobs

  

  Bloomberg UK lawyers with lucrative careers in European Union law are fighting to save their jobs after the bloc’s top courts warned that a no-deal Brexit would forbid them from representing clients. In a letter, a senior official at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg urged British lawyers practicing EU law to put in place contingency ...

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• 21 July

  Renault set to invest $144mn in Jiangling electric car venture

  

  Bloomberg Renault SA will invest 128.5 million euros ($144 million) for a 50 percent stake in a venture with Jiangling Motors Corp (JMC) to develop electric vehicles in China, part of a push by the French company to make further inroads into the world’s biggest car market. The Chinese entity was created in 2015 and already holds certification to manufacture ...

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• 21 July

  Carbon pollution price in Europe nears key 30 euros threshold

  

  Bloomberg Europe’s carbon market is nearing the psychologically important threshold of 30 euros ($33.70) a ton after signs the region will tighten rules on polluters and curtail supplies of allowances. The value of the securities that cover greenhouse gas emissions from industry and utilities has almost doubled in the past year, finishing at their strongest weekly close since 2006. That ...

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• 21 July

  Europe braces for another heatwave after hottest June

  Bloomberg After a scorching weekend across the US east coast, it’s Europe’s turn to dial up the air conditioners and fans this week. Temperatures could rise as high as 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) by Wednesday in London and other parts of Britain, compared with about 21 Celsius now, according to the Met Office. Paris is forecast to be as ...

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• 21 July

  Microsoft cloud software fuels sales, profit beat

  

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp rose to a record after topping quarterly sales and profit projections, fuelled by steady demand for cloud-computing services and a surprisingly strong Windows business. The company’s forecast promised robust growth will continue into next year. The software maker pledged “double-digit” percentage gains in sales and operating income for the year. Results are getting a boost from larger ...

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• 21 July

  Boeing’s 737 Max charge is only end of the beginning

  

  Boeing Co.’s willingness to put a price tag on its 737 Max crisis and set a firmer timeline for the plane’s return is a sign it sees those troubles as closer to being resolved. The risk is that the company is still the most optimistic one in the room. Boeing announced it would take a $4.9 billion after-tax charge in ...

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• 21 July

  Amazon.com plays nice in Germany

  

  As part of a settlement with Germany’s antitrust authorities, Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to change a number of its business practices. The move should serve as a model to other US tech companies that prefer to pay fines to the European Union and challenge its antitrust rulings in the courts rather than alter their behaviour to comply with local rules. ...

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• 21 July

  Negative yields tempt fund managers into liquidity trap

  With almost $13 trillion of bonds in the global debt market yielding less than zero, fund managers are increasingly chasing returns in less liquid assets. The result could be a reduction in the transparency about what portfolios are really worth. Regulators are right to be paying heightened attention to any misadventures in illiquidity. The decline in interest income available in ...

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• 21 July

  Donald Trump needs to hold firm on Iran

  President Donald Trump reinserted himself into the Iran nuclear negotiations this week, with decidedly mixed results. Trump’s reiteration that he isn’t looking for regime change was welcome. As efforts to persuade Iran to scale back uranium enrichment intensify, it’s important for the regime to know that it faces no existential threat. The US hopes only to crimp its capacity to ...

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• 21 July

  Modi should starve India’s state-controlled lenders

  

  Fifty years ago, India took a wrong turn leftward from which it is yet to recover: On July 19, 1969, the government took over the banking system, nationalising 14 banks which together controlled 85 percent of bank deposits. Today, even after a quarter century of liberalisation, state-controlled banks still control 70 percent of the sector’s assets. As a consequence, credit ...

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