January, 2019

• 9 January

  China’s HNA sells Manhattan building

  Bloomberg HNA Group Co sold a building in Manhattan to help ease the embattled conglomerate’s debts and stave off US concerns about a Chinese company owning property near Trump Tower. HNA completed the sale, the group said in a statement, without providing details. Bisnow reported earlier that investor and real estate developer Jacob Chetrit and his sons bought the tower ...

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• 9 January

  Siemens-Alstom assets draw bids amid push to sway EU

  

  Bloomberg Siemens AG and Alstom SA are pushing ahead with the sale of train-equipment assets in a bid to salvage their rail merger amid European Union antitrust scrutiny, people with knowledge of the matter said. Companies including Hitachi Ltd, Wabtec Corp, Switzerland’s Stadler Rail AG and Thales SA submitted offers by a deadline earlier this month, the people said, asking ...

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• 9 January

  Mexico to cut tax for companies holding IPOs to 10 percent

  

  Bloomberg Mexico will cut the tax rate paid by companies on the proceeds of initial public offerings to 10 percent as part of a broad-ranging plan to boost public offerings and spur growth in the financial system. Finance Minister Carlos Urzua announced the measure at an event led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Banco de Mexico Governor Alejandro ...

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• 9 January

  Apple supplier Skyworks cuts sales, profit forecasts

  

  Bloomberg Skyworks Solutions Inc, a key Apple Inc supplier, cut sales and profit forecasts. Fiscal first-quarter revenue will be about $970 million, down from prior guidance of between $1 billion and $1.02 billion. Earnings, excluding certain items, will be $1.81 to $1.84 a share, versus a previous forecast of $1.91, the company said. Chief Executive Officer Liam Griffin blamed the ...

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• 9 January

  Fiat nears deal to end US diesel probe

  

  Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is nearing a settlement with the US Justice Department that would end a two-year criminal investigation into whether it knowingly sold diesel vehicles that violated clean-air rules, according to two people familiar with the matter. The resolution would include a financial penalty in line with Fiat Chrysler’s guidance to investors, one of the people said. ...

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• 9 January

  Mercedes 2018 sales growth dips

  Bloomberg Growth in Mercedes-Benz car deliveries tumbled to the lowest in a decade last year in a swift reversal from double-digit gains after sales in Europe and North America declined. Daimler AG’s luxury brand delivered 2.31 million cars worldwide in 2018, a rise of just 0.9 percent almost entirely driven by China. The small uptick probably was still enough to ...

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• 9 January

  Union Pacific surges as COO hiring dazzles

  

  Bloomberg Union Pacific Corp surged the most since 2009 after hiring a protege of railroading legend Hunter Harrison to guide the company’s shift to a new efficiency strategy. Jim Vena, 60, will become chief operating officer on January 14 and oversee the implementation of precision sche- duled railroading, a system pioneered by Harrison and adopted by Union Pacific late last ...

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• 9 January

  IBM expects revenue from quantum computing soon

  

  Bloomberg International Business Machines Corp took another step towards bringing the world of quantum computing to commercial applications — and CEO Ginni Rometty sees real results coming as soon as 2021. “We’re probably in a two- to five-year time frame that you’ll actually start to see commercial businesses doing real commercial applications,” Rometty said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. ...

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• 9 January

  No ‘emergency’ will allow Trump to build his wall

  

  President Donald Trump has said that he can declare a national emergency and order his border wall to be built. He’s wrong. The US Constitution doesn’t contain any national emergency provision that would allow the president to spend money for purposes not allocated by Congress. And it’s clearer than clear that Congress not only hasn’t authorized money for a wall ...

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• 9 January

  China has ignored this iPhone alert

  

  A slowing economy and relatively high prices have been highlighted as chief culprits behind the slump in demand for Apple Inc.’s iPhones in China. There’s a third factor that’s been overlooked: the end of easy money. Apple last week cut its quarterly revenue forecast for the first time in almost two decades, blaming weak sales in Asia’s largest economy. Cheaper ...

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