June, 2019

• 9 June

  Trina Solar says US tariffs won’t hurt firm

  Bloomberg China’s Trina Solar Ltd., one of largest panel manufacturers, says it’s well insulated from the growing trade dispute with the US. The reason: the last trade dispute with the US. When the US imposed anti-dumping penalties on solar panels imported from China under President Barack Obama, Trina built factories in Thailand and Vietnam to serve American customers, said Steven ...

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• 9 June

  Airbnb Japan listings rebound after home-sharing law freeze

  

  Bloomberg Airbnb Inc says it’s back in business in Japan, a year after stricter home-sharing regulations forced it to freeze a major portion of its listings in the country. There are 50,000 listings available in the country, with another 23,000 rooms in hotels and traditional inns known as ryokan, Airbnb said in a statement. That’s compares with 60,000 total in ...

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• 9 June

  China plans to create new security system to protect technology

  

  Bloomberg China plans to create a new system to reduce threats to national security related to technology, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, as trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies escalate. The National Development and Reform Commission has been tasked with setting up the list system which aims to “more effectively forestall and defuse national security risks,” ...

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• 9 June

  Ghosn surprised to hear of proceedings on audit report

  

  Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn’s lawyers said they’re surprised to hear that the board of Renault SA started proceedings against their client based on an audit report. Ghosn hasn’t had a chance to respond to any of the questions raised by this report, Jean-Yves Le Borgne and Francois Zimeray, the lawyers for the former boss of Renault, said in a statement. “Shockingly, ...

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• 9 June

  India turns pessimistic over jobs

  Bloomberg Consumer confidence in India dropped in May, as people fretted about jobs and slowing growth in Asia’s third-largest economy. The current situation index fell to 97.3 from 104.6 in March, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s consumer confidence survey, where 100 is the dividing line between pessimism and optimism. The future expectations gauge fell to 128.4 in May ...

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• 9 June

  South Korea warns of prolonged downside risk to economic growth

  Bloomberg South Korea said its economic growth faces prolonged downside risks as uncertainty surrounding external conditions grow more than expected. Yoon Jong-won, the presidential secretary for economic affairs, said the downward period is becoming more prolonged, reversing comments he made in May that growth was expected to improve “significantly” in the second quarter. Yoon said the uncertainties worsened more than ...

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• 9 June

  Duterte seeks arrests, health insurer revamp over dialysis scam

  

  Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of those involved in a dialysis treatment scam that defrauded Philippine Health Insurance Corp, and plans a revamp of the state-run insurer for losing more than $2.89 billion from fictitious claims and abuse. “I will really go after this” and “I am ordering the National Bureau of Investigation” to take over, invite ...

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• 9 June

  Blackstone plans $6.8 billion European warehouse unit

  

  Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP plans to pool 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) of its smaller European warehouse investments in a new company that will ultimately be publicly listed or sold. The private-equity giant is in the process of hiring an executive to run the company, which will manage its holdings of logistics properties close to towns and cities, according to ...

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• 9 June

  British economy set for slowdown as Brexit stockpiling boost fades

  

  Bloomberg UK manufacturing slumped in April as the boost from Brexit stockpiling evaporated and car factories halted work, boding ill for the economy in the second quarter, figures on Monday are expected to show. Production fell by 1.4 percent from March, the biggest decline since the start of 2017, according to a Bloomberg survey. With little support from construction and ...

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• 9 June

  PG&E power generators lose legal fight on supply contract

  

  Bloomberg The power generators that supply bankrupt utility giant PG&E Corp. were dealt a major blow as a judge ruled that federal regulators can’t keep their supply contracts from getting killed. Power giants including NextEra Energy Inc. and Exelon Corp. had enlisted the help of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in ensuring that their long-term contracts with PG&E survive the ...

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