March, 2019

• 30 March

  UK elections likely after May’s Brexit defeat

  

  Bloomberg Britain is edging closer to a general election after parliament rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time, deepening the political crisis that has overtaken the country’s bitter divorce from the European Union. Speaking after the result of the vote was announced, the prime minister gave a veiled warning that an election could be necessary to end the ...

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• 30 March

  Slovaks all set to pick first woman president

  Bloomberg Slovaks are voting in a presidential runoff that will probably lift a liberal pro-European Union lawyer to the nation’s highest office in a rebuke of the populism that’s sweeping parts of the bloc’s ex-communist wing. Zuzana Caputova, a 45-year-old, captured a strong lead in support before the ballot. Poised to become Slovakia’s first woman president, she swept up more ...

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• 30 March

  Russia shouldn’t misjudge Robert Mueller moment

  

  Russian claims this week that they’ve been exonerated by Robert Mueller’s final report make my skin crawl. But they highlight the critical question of how the US and Russia can begin to move back towards a saner relationship. Frankly speaking (as Russians like to say), the first step is for Russia to stop pretending that it didn’t meddle in the ...

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• 30 March

  Macron keeps a door open for Brits

  

  Emmanuel Macron is basking in the spotlight of Brexit. His performance at the summit of European leaders, in which he took a tough line publicly against the UK’s desperate request for a delay to the March 29th deadline, has been compared to Charles de Gaulle’s repeated refusal to let Britain join the European Community in the 1960s. An unconditional delay? ...

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• 30 March

  Cathay’s deal won’t bring cheap tickets

  Budget aviation ain’t what it used to be. Passengers on Easyjet Plc aircraft can book fares that let them change flight times at no extra cost. Those on Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s Scoot and JetBlue Airways Corp. can pay for business-class seats, and people flying Juneyao Airlines Co. can collect frequent flier points and spend them on flights with Star Alliance ...

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• 30 March

  Draghi struggles with three big questions

  For the best part of a decade, politicians and investors have looked at the European Central Bank (ECB) as a guiding light through uncertain economic times. They may need to adapt to a new reality. On three important questions for the future of the euro zone, the ECB just cannot make its mind up. The first dilemma is the outlook. The ...

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• 30 March

  Boeing will recover from setbacks of 737 crashes

  

  Boeing Co. is in a heap of trouble right now — there’s no getting around it. The two deadly crashes of its new plane, the 737 Max, killing 346 people, have cost it an enormous amount of reputational capital, and will undoubtedly cost it a lot of money — in lawsuit settlements, in multi-million-dollar payments to airlines that have had ...

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• 30 March

  Hong Kong’s ripe for virtual banking wave

  

  The world is littered with startups that have struggled to become genuine challengers to traditional banks despite chalking up plenty of customers. Hong Kong may be different. The city kicked off its virtual banking revolution by issuing three licenses, two of which went to ventures led by note-issuing banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is processing five more permits. This ...

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• 30 March

  The car giants are really getting pretty desperate

  

  In view of the bad feeling unleashed by Japan’s detention of Carlos Ghosn in November, one might have expected Renault SA to keep things quiet for a while. Ghosn was head of the giant Renault-Nissan carmaking alliance and one theory for his downfall was that he was pushing too hard for a full combination of the French and Japanese companies. ...

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• 30 March

  Apple video app embraces other devices only when needed

  

  Bloomberg Apple Inc showed it can open up its software and services to devices that compete with its own — but only when absolutely necessary. The company’s updated TV app, including a new subscription for original movies and TV shows, will launch on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. But it will also be available via gadgets from Amazon.com Inc and Roku ...

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