October, 2018

• 21 October

  Swisscom weighs tie-up for Italian unit

  

  Bloomberg Swisscom AG is considering options for its Fastweb SpA unit, including a sale or partnership, that would increase the Italian business’s market share in mobile services, people familiar with the matter said. The company has discussed a tie-up with CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.’s local wireless unit, Wind Tre SpA, though the Hong Kong conglomerate isn’t interested in adding landline ...

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• 21 October

  IBM wants cloud services to play nice with competitors

  

  Bloomberg International Business Machines Corp. is pressing deeper into its strategy of making cloud services more compatible with competitors, rather than trying to force customers into its own walled garden. IBM unveiled three new products to manage security, artificial intelligence and storage services across multiple cloud systems, regardless of whose they are. Having arrived late to the cloud revolution, IBM ...

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• 21 October

  US alleges futures-spoofing by traders

  

  Bloomberg Three commodities traders were charged by the US Justice Department with orchestrating a $60 million fraud that involved spoofing and conspiring to manipulate futures contracts, according to prosecutors and court filings in Houston. Yuchun “Bruce” Mao, a 39-year-old Chinese national, is accused of working with two other traders at his firm in a scheme to rig the purchase and ...

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• 21 October

  Trump uses immigration talk to energise midterm voters

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump has thrust the issue of illegal immigration back to the fore of his political rallies, gambling that his combative rhetoric can galvanize his Republican base ahead of next month’s pivotal midterm elections. But so far there’s scant evidence the divisive issue that helped carry him to victory in 2016 will do the same for his party ...

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• 21 October

  Trump plans to pull out of N-weapons pact with Russia

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he plans to pull out of a major arms control treaty with Russia, claiming the Kremlin breached the accord on intermediate-range nuclear weapons. “We’re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement,” Trump said on Saturday after a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada. “We’re going to terminate the agreement.” The US has been warning ...

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• 21 October

  Poland votes at ground zero of Europe’s populism battle

  

  Bloomberg Poland is voting in local elections that will test the conservative ruling party’s grip on public opinion as it rends the country away from its European Union allies. The nation of 38 million is ground zero in the battle between populist leaders rebelling against the bloc’s liberal, multicultural norms and mainstream forces who say they’ve done more than any ...

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• 21 October

  Thousands protest Brexit in London

  

  Bloomberg People from across the UK gathered on a sunny afternoon in London to take part in what may be the biggest public protest over Brexit since the referendum in 2016. The march, which organizers estimated drew 700,000 people to west London’s Park Lane, was called by People’s Vote, a group that’s campaigning for the public to have a say ...

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• 21 October

  Italy’s populist parties face off in regional vote

  Bloomberg Italy’s two populist parties, rivals and allies in the governing coalition, face off in regional elections in the small northern region of Trentino-Alto Adige as they seek an edge in their national power struggle. As voters in the semi-autonomous, largely German-speaking provinces of Trento and Bolzano, head to the polls Sunday, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the anti-immigration, ...

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• 21 October

  What does Donald Trump’s ascendance mean about US?

  

  It is a sign of the times — the kind involving the seven-horned beast, and the rain of fire, and the end of days — that recent news has been dominated by Kanye, Stormy and the misogynist boor who is president of these United States. It would be a circus if it were not a crime scene, complete with credible ...

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• 21 October

  Bigger houses may need more energy

  

  Earlier this month, IKEA Group published its annual Life at Home report, which surveys more than 22,000 people in 22 countries. It’s an intriguing look at what the home-furnishings giant describes as the “four dimensions that are shared by everyone, no matter where or how we live — space, place, relationships and things.” Two of those elements, space and things, ...

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