February, 2019

• 13 February

  Canada’s Onex weighs sale of advanced integration tech

  

  Bloomberg Onex Corp., Canada’s largest publicly traded private equity firm, is planning a sale of Advanced Integration Technology that could fetch more than $1.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Onex is working with advisers on an auction for the maker of manufacturing equipment for the aerospace industry, said the people, who asked not to be identified ...

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• 13 February

  ‘China’s slowdown isn’t hurting it all that much’

  

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai said the e-commerce giant has experienced limited impact from China’s broader economic slowdown as more and more business moves to the internet. “Our business is delinked” from Chinese economy because “we’re in e-commerce and we’re digitizing the whole sector,” Tsai said in San Francisco. Tsai said the company’s growth would continue ...

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• 13 February

  Cole Haan stirs debt investor love for ‘1928 shoe brand’

  

  Bloomberg Cole Haan’s most recent debt offering shows investors will still lend to at least some aging clothing brands. The footwear company is a bright spot in an industry that’s been marred by failures — Nine West is mired in bankruptcy while Payless is preparing to file for a second time. But Cole Haan, a brand that dates back to ...

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• 13 February

  Air France-KLM’s Dutch arm goes to battle over Elbers’s fate

  Bloomberg Long simmering tension within Air France-KLM erupted into the open after managers at Dutch arm KLM warned of possible strikes and employee unrest should Pieter Elbers be removed as head of the unit. “The possibility of an unexplainable, involuntary departure of our CEO brings a lot of tension in the workforce,” a group of managers wrote in a letter ...

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• 13 February

  Modi gets reprieve as auditor says new French jet deal better

  

  Bloomberg The Indian government’s $8.7 billion purchase of French warplanes was cheaper than a bid negotiated under the previous government, the country’s auditor said, potentially weakening an opposition campaign alleging corruption ahead of federal polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi bought 36 Rafale fighters in 2015 from Dassault Aviation SA at 2.86 percent lower than the price negotiated by the former ...

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• 13 February

  Ghosn replaces his legal team in Tokyo

  

  Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn replaced his legal team in Tokyo as he prepares for a trial on the financial-misconduct allegations that have shocked the global car industry and kept the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman in jail for almost three months. Ghosn said on Wednesday he hired Junichiro Hironaka to be his new lawyer and help him with the “trial phase” ...

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• 13 February

  Indian billionaire taps banks for US aluminum deal

  

  Bloomberg India billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco Industries Ltd. has gathered a consortium of Asian, US and European banks to fund its takeover of aluminum producer Aleris Corp. Novelis Inc., the US unit of Hindalco, has mandated a 20-strong bank group to arrange a $2.28 billion dual-tranche loan that will finance the purchase of US-based Aleris, according to people familiar ...

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• 13 February

  Tencent invests in link-sharing website Reddit

  

  Bloomberg Reddit Inc. said that it raised $300 million from investors. It was one backer, in particular, that drew condemnation from members of Reddit’s online community. Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. was among the investors in the round, which values the link-sharing website at $3 billion. In the following days, users posted links to Reddit depicting imagery banned by ...

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• 13 February

  China’s yuan nears a critical juncture as trade talks loom

  

  Bloomberg The yuan is entering a critical period after posting its second-best monthly advance ever, with analysts sounding caution as a new round of China-US trade talks gets underway. The Chinese currency could head to 7 per dollar if there’s a breakdown in the negotiations, while an agreement on no additional tariffs will send it on a sustained rally, Citigroup ...

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• 13 February

  Indonesia grabs upper hand over India in Asia high-yield battle

  

  Bloomberg In the battle between Asia’s two highest-yielding major bond markets, Indonesia once again appears poised to gain the upper hand over India. Global money managers are increasingly shunning Indian securities as Narendra Modi’s government hands out billions of dollars in tax cuts and subsidies to boost the prime minister’s appeal ahead of elections, blowing through the nation’s deficit target ...

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