October, 2018

• 29 October

  Bharti Airtel delays IPO of its $8bn Africa business by half a year

  

  Bloomberg Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s second-biggest wireless carrier, is delaying a planned initial public offering of its Africa unit due to the turmoil in emerging-market stocks, people with knowledge of the matter said. The company, which was originally aiming to list the unit in London by March, has pushed back the share sale by about half a year, according to ...

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• 29 October

  Philippines evacuates people as Typhoon Yutu approaches

  

  Bloomberg Philippine authorities started to move people to safer grounds as Typhoon Yutu approaches, tracking a path similar to last month’s storm that devastated rice-producing provinces in the main island of Luzon. Yutu, which last week became the strongest storm since 1950 to hit the US territories in the Northern Mariana Islands, is now the equivalent of a Category 2 ...

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• 29 October

  Hong Kong’s new-home sales tumble

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s new-home sales cooled, another sign of weakness in a property market that may be at risk of a correction. The transaction value so far in October is HK$11.2 billion ($1.4 billion), the lowest level in 16 months once holiday distortions are excluded. The number of transactions stood at 1,130, down by almost half from the total for ...

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• 29 October

  500mn beneficiaries don’t have a clue to Modi’s healthcare plan

  

  Bloomberg The world’s largest healthcare program in India is running up against a challenge: many of its 500 million beneficiaries don’t have a clue about it, as they didn’t have to enroll for it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s solution is to tackle the problem at its roots. He is writing letters to 100 million families educating them about the benefits ...

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• 29 October

  IBM’s $33bn Red Hat takeover a game-changer for ‘cloud market’

  

  Bloomberg IBM’s $33 billion purchase of Red Hat Inc — the world’s second-largest technology deal ever — is aimed at catapulting the company into the ranks of the top cloud software competitors. The cash deal, IBM’s biggest by far, boosts the 107-year-old computer-services giant’s credentials overnight in the fast-growing and lucrative cloud market — and gives it much-needed potential for ...

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• 29 October

  Browder’s laundering complaint says Nokia received $97 million

  

  Bloomberg Nokia Oyj has been identified as the biggest individual recipient of potentially illicit funds relating to money laundering allegations against Nordea Bank Abp, according to investor Bill Browder. As much as $97.2 million that may have been laundered ended up in Nokia’s accounts at Nordea, according to a document focussing on potentially illicit transactions in Finland and sent by ...

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• 29 October

  Startup Quid raises $38mn in venture funding

  

  Bloomberg Quid Inc, a startup that helps companies analyse large volumes of text from news, social media and the web, raised $37.5 million in venture funding, the company plans to announce on Monday. The deal was led by REV Ventures, the investment arm of LexisNexis owner RELX Group Plc, which contributed about $10 million. Other investors include Julian Roberson, the ...

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• 29 October

  Mercedes-Benz under probe over recall-notice practices

  Bloomberg Mercedes-Benz USA is under investigation by US safety regulators who say the luxury-auto maker may be taking too long to send safety recall notices to car owners and inform the government. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told the unit of Germany’s Daimler AG that it found numerous instances in which owners of recalled cars weren’t notified within the ...

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• 29 October

  Tesla profit blowout reverses much of Musk’s damage to stock

  

  Bloomberg Profit secured. Tesla Inc blew away expectations with just the third quarter of positive earnings in its history, bolstering Elon Musk’s bid to make selling electric cars a financially sustainable business. The profit and cash that Tesla generated sent its shares surging to levels last seen in mid-August, when the chief executive officer was still in the midst of ...

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• 29 October

  Trade deficit with China shows America’s strength

  

  US President Donald Trump has made closing America’s trade deficit with China a top priority. The problem is, it’s growing instead. For Trump, that’s probably more proof that his tariff-heavy, get-tough approach to China is the correct strategy. For economists, it’s not such a big deal. The US economy is roaring, and roaring economies tend to import more. There’s another ...

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