February, 2019

• 20 February

  Deutsche Bank plans to rebuild S Africa staff

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG plans to start rebuilding its South African workforce just months after scaling back staff and cutting costs as part of a global restructuring. “The hiring we’re currently pursuing is geared towards enhancing the areas where we have global and local strengths, such as fixed income,” South Africa Chief Executive Officer Muneer Ismail said in an interview. ...

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• 20 February

  Alberta expects $1.7bn profit from giant crude-by-rail plan

  

  Bloomberg Alberta is preparing a giant crude-by-rail operation to help its oil-sands producers cope with a pipeline crunch, and it expects a big profit from the venture. The Canadian province, which holds the world’s third-largest crude reserves, plans to net C$2.2 billion ($1.7 billion) after investing C$3.7 billion to lease tank cars and buy service from rail providers, generating C$5.9 ...

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• 20 February

  US shale boom rolls on despite spending cuts

  

  Bloomberg America’s surging shale oil production shows little sign of abating, despite industrywide spending cuts, as explorers learn to do more with less. Almost all the independent producers have reduced their budgets for 2019, but many still expect to deliver double-digit growth in production this year, fourth-quarter earnings reports show. Growth is slowing but still strong: the US will add ...

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• 20 February

  Brexit threatens to dull UK oil’s allure

  Bloomberg Brexit is threatening to spoil the appeal of the UK’s crude in the world’s biggest regional oil market. Seoul-based SK Innovation Co., an Asian buyer of North Sea Forties crude, sees a lower probability of purchases if the UK and South Korea don’t roll over an existing trade deal before Brexit. That’s after British Business Secretary Greg Clark admitted ...

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• 20 February

  US seeking stable yuan as China trade talks progress

  

  Bloomberg The US is asking China to keep the value of the yuan stable as part of trade negotiations between the world’s two largest economies, a move aimed at neutralising any effort by Beijing to devalue its currency to counter American tariffs, people familiar with the ongoing talks said. Officials from the two countries are discussing how to address currency ...

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• 20 February

  Chinese traders freeze Australia’s coal orders

  

  Bloomberg China has delayed customs clearance of coal imports from Australia by as long as 40 days, according to a leading industry body, raising speculation that the world’s biggest shipper of the commodity is being targeted at a time of strained relations between the two nations. Customs officials are taking longer to clear Australian coking coal imports, especially in northern ...

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• 20 February

  Indian billionaire Anil Ambani ordered to pay Ericsson or face jail

  

  Bloomberg India’s top court warned billionaire Anil Ambani he’ll be put behind bars unless his group pays its dues to Swedish supplier Ericsson AB, the latest twist in a dispute that helped push the tycoon’s mobile-phone carrier to file for bankruptcy. Ambani, 59, disobeyed an earlier Supreme Court order for his Reliance Communications Ltd. to pay 5.5 billion rupees ($77 ...

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• 20 February

  Ghosn a victim of conspiracy: Lawyer

  

  Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn is not guilty of the crimes he is accused of and his arrest was the result of a conspiracy at Nissan Motor Co., the jailed car titan’s new lawyer said as he kicked off his defense campaign in Tokyo. Nissan’s internal problems are the reason behind Ghosn’s jailing in Japan, and the carmaker should have dealt with ...

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• 20 February

  India’s sugar output to sink to three-year low

  Bloomberg Sugar output in India, which vies with Brazil as the world’s top grower, will likely drop to a three-year low next season as dry weather in some main areas of western region cuts planting. Production may slide to less than 30 million metric tons in the year that begins on October 1 from an estimated 31.5 million tons this ...

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• 20 February

  Singapore property not set for ‘big bump’

  

  Bloomberg Singapore home prices are unlikely to stage a rapid rebound after the government imposed further property curbs in mid-2018, the finance chief of the city-state’s largest developer said. “If we see a 5 percent increase in home prices I think that will be a pretty good year for the Singapore residential market,” CapitaLand Ltd. Chief Financial Officer Andrew Lim ...

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