January, 2019

• 23 January

  Toyota finally has the power in electric cars

  

  Watch out, electric-car battery makers — Toyota Motor Corp. has arrived. Asia’s biggest automaker is setting up a joint venture with Panasonic Corp. to produce batteries for partners such as its Daihatsu unit, Mazda Motor Corp. and Subaru Corp. that together account for more than 20 percent of global car production. Toyota will own 51 percent of the venture, to ...

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• 23 January

  India is swapping bankruptcy teeth for dentures

  

  Errant debtors are forever looking for ways to undermine creditor protection; but when lenders themselves start making a mockery of a fledgling insolvency law, nobody can save it. That’s where India’s two-year-old bankruptcy regime is today, brought to the brink of irrelevance by the strain of resolving its most high-profile case: Essar Steel India Ltd. The billionaire Ruia brothers have ...

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• 23 January

  Fed probes Deutsche Bank over suspicious Danske cash

  

  Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is examining how Deutsche Bank AG handled billions of dollars in suspicious transactions from Denmark’s leading lender, according to people familiar with the matter, further intensifying what could be one of the biggest money-laundering scandals ever. The Fed’s probe is in an early stage as it scrutinises whether Deutsche Bank’s US operations adequately monitored funds from ...

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• 23 January

  Norges Bank seen sticking to a rate increase in March

  

  Bloomberg Norway’s central bank is seen sticking to the script this week to slowly lift interest rates as it assesses the first tightening in more than seven years. Policy makers in Oslo will leave the benchmark rate at 0.75 percent when they announce their decision on Thursday, according to all economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The meeting is in between monetary ...

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• 23 January

  BOJ keeps monetary policy unchanged

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged as it cut its inflation outlook once again, underscoring how far away its price target is and how few options the central bank has for drawing closer. The BOJ maintained its yield curve-control program and asset purchases, it said in a statement on Wednesday, a result predicted by all but one ...

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• 23 January

  South Africa inflation reaches mid-point of top bank target

  Bloomberg South Africa’s inflation rate reached the mid-point of the central bank’s target range of 3 percent to 6 percent in December — something the Reserve Bank says would allow for flexibility in dealing with price shocks. Consumer-price growth slowed to 4.5 percent from a year earlier compared with 5.2 percent in November, the Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said in ...

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• 23 January

  Shutdown deprives Fed of data it’s dependent on

  

  Bloomberg Just when the Federal Reserve most needs fresh data to keep its policy in sync with the US economy, the government shutdown is getting in the way. Timely information on economic growth, jobs, consumer spending and inflation is always crucial to monetary policy making. Now, the longest shutdown on record is blocking the collection and reporting of many of ...

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• 23 January

  Boeing’s $44bn tanker may miss a milestone by 3 years

  

  Bloomberg Boeing Co’s first aerial refuelling tanker in a $44 billion programme is scheduled to land on Friday at an Air Force base in Kansas for a celebration tempered by what now may become a delay of at least three years in meeting its most important milestone. A ceremony is planned for the arrival of the KC-46 at McConnell Air ...

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• 23 January

  Philippine Airlines owner’s stocks soar on new ‘ANA report’

  

  Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc’s largest shareholder jumped the most in more than five years after the Nikkei reported ANA Holdings Inc is considering investing in the Southeast Asian carrier. ANA, Japan’s biggest airline, is considering purchasing 10 percent of Philippine Airlines for 10 billion yen ($91 million), the Nikkei reported. PAL Holdings Inc, which owns most of Philippine Airlines, closed ...

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• 23 January

  Spirit Air sees decision on adding smaller jets

  

  Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc is targeting a decision by the middle of the year on its next order of single-aisle jets as the carrier prepares its expansion plans over the next five years. The heavy discounter is talking to each of the major manufacturers, Airbus SE, Boeing Co and Embraer SA, Chief Financial Officer Scott Haralson said on the sidelines ...

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