October, 2018

• 6 October

  Softbank, Toyota team up on ride-hailing, self-driving cars

  

  Bloomberg Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are betting on a future when consumers and businesses will order up their transportation needs on demand, forming a new venture that will develop and deploy ride-hailing and self-driving car technologies. Monet Technologies Corp. will initially introduce ride-hailing services for Japanese public agencies and private companies, followed by a rollout of ...

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• 6 October

  Pompeo returns to Pyongyang lacking leverage for nuke deal

  

  Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrived on Saturday in Japan on a trip that will take him to North Korea, as US disarmament demands are increasingly undermined by calls for sanctions relief and President Donald Trump’s eagerness for a second summit with Kim Jong-un. Pompeo will spend less than a day on the ground in Pyongyang on Sunday meeting ...

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• 6 October

  EU’s Juncker says Brexit divorce deal will be done

  Bloomberg The chances of getting a Brexit deal have increased over the past few days, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austrian newspapers in an interview released on Saturday. “I assume that we’ll find an agreement about the terms of the exit treaty,” Juncker in the interview with daily newspapers Der Standard and Kurier, and weekly Falter. “We also need ...

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• 6 October

  Interpol asks China about crime agency’s chief status

  Bloomberg Interpol asked China to clarify the status of the law enforcement group’s president, amid press reports that he’s been arrested in his home country. “Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China’s authorities on the status of Interpol President Meng Hongwei,” Juergen Stock, secretary general of the organisation based in Lyon, France, said in a statement. ...

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• 6 October

  Latvians vote as EU’s latest populists spice up election

  

  Bloomberg Latvians go to the polls on Saturday, with an establishment-bashing upstart injecting drama into the country’s usually dull elections. The tiny Baltic nation is getting a taste of the populism that’s upended politics from London to Rome as a brash new party threatens to rip up the regular script. Its rise challenges the center-right coalitions that routinely prevail in ...

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• 6 October

  Putin denials mask dismay at ‘spy flaws’

  

  Bloomberg Beneath President Vladimir Putin’s angry denials that Russian spies were involved in attempted murder and hacking operations abroad, there’s palpable unease at the catalogue of sometimes laughable mishaps by his now-infamous GRU military-intelligence service. Accusations by the Netherlands, the UK and the US that four GRU agents were caught attempting to hack into a United Nations body investigating a ...

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• 6 October

  Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro gains support in election-eve poll

  Bloomberg Former Army Captain Jair Bolsonaro widened his lead in a poll published a day before voters cast their ballots in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro would garner 36.7 percent of first-round votes, followed by Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad with 24 percent, according to the MDA/CNT poll. Bolsonaro had 28.2 percent in a previous MDA/CNT poll ...

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• 6 October

  China’s funding for coal draws scrutiny as climate concern grows

  

  Bloomberg China’s leading role in financing a wave of new coal plants across Asia is drawing fresh scrutiny as the world’s top climate scientists weigh calling for much deeper cuts in emissions. China, India, Japan and the Philippines rank among the biggest investors in the 1,380 coal plants under construction or development worldwide, according to a study by the German ...

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• 6 October

  China puts brakes on US crude oil imports

  

  Bloomberg Even though Beijing hasn’t sanctioned American oil imports yet, Chinese buyers aren’t taking any chances. The world’s second largest economy halted purchases of US crude in August for the first time since September 2016, according to US Census Bureau data. In July, Chinese buyers received nearly 12 million barrels of crude from the US. Beijing, once an enthusiastic buyer ...

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• 6 October

  Electrify America plans $200mn for clean cars

  

  Bloomberg Electrify America, created by Volkswagen AG as part of a settlement from the automaker’s emissions-cheating scandal, filed plans with California regulators to invest a second $200 million in electric car charging infrastructure. The investments will include deploying fast-charging stations in cities including Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to a statement Wednesday. Part of the money will ...

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