July, 2018

• 9 July

  BOE on course for an August rate hike

  

  Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) policy makers are adjusting to an upheaval at the statistics office at the very point when they need as much clarity as possible to help decide whether to raise interest rates next month. The UK is this week shaking up the way it reports growth, publishing monthly updates and delaying its usual quarterly figures. The ...

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• 9 July

  Barclays EMEA banking chairman leaves lender

  

  Bloomberg Makram Azar, chairman for Barclays Plc’s Europe, Middle East and Africa banking operations, retired from his role at the British lender, according to a memo to obtained by Bloomberg News. Azar, who also headed the bank’s Middle East’s operations, will return as a senior adviser in January 2019, according to the memo issued by Joe McGrath, global head of ...

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• 9 July

  Bankers quit Goldman, Citi for biotech riches in Hong Kong

  

  Bloomberg Investment bankers in Hong Kong are catching biotech fever. At least seven senior bankers and analysts from top-tier securities firms have quit to join biotechnology companies in the city since December, responding to the industry’s growing demand for financial expertise after rule changes at Hong Kong’s stock exchange smoothed the path for biotech initial public offerings. Richard Yeh, a ...

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• 9 July

  Shell ramps up in Canadian town raising $30bn LNG hopes

  

  Bloomberg A flurry of activity in a remote Canadian town is raising optimism that Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its partners are ready to go ahead with the nation’s largest infrastructure project: a C$40 billion ($30 billion) LNG terminal that could at last unlock energy exports to Asia. The action is unmistakable in Kitimat, British Columbia, the Pacific coast city ...

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• 9 July

  UK’s aging N-fleet offers target for China ambitions

  

  Bloomberg The possible replacement of the UK’s aging nuclear reactor fleet may offer China’s ambitious atomic power companies an outlet for investment and technology. That could be the driver behind reports over the weekend by London-based Sunday Times that state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp “made an approach” about acquiring as much as 49 percent in eight UK nuclear power ...

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• 9 July

  French business elite urges EU unity amid Trump’s disruptions

  

  Bloomberg Political and business leaders gathering for an economic conference in southern France over the weekend called on the European Union (EU) to flex its muscles and save a world trade system disrupted by US President Donald Trump as tariff wars escalate among the US, Europe and China. “If tomorrow, there were to be new hikes of tariffs on other ...

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• 9 July

  Britain to require electric car chargers for new homes

  

  Bloomberg New homes built in the UK will soon be required to have charge points for electric vehicles, according to the government’s Road to Zero report released on Monday. “It is our intention that all new homes, where appropriate, should have a charge point available,” it said. “We plan to consult as soon as possible on introducing a requirement for ...

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• 9 July

  Cosco clears US hurdle over Orient overseas deal

  

  Bloomberg Cosco Shipping Holdings Co. pledged to sell a container terminal in California, helping allay concerns of US regulators and clearing the way for its $6.3 billion acquisition of Orient Overseas International Ltd. announced last year. The state-owned shipping giant signed a national security agreement with the US on July 6 to dispose of the Long Beach facility to a ...

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• 9 July

  Pound gains as UK ‘averts’ leadership battle

  Bloomberg The pound climbed to the strongest level in almost a month on optimism that a crisis engulfing UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s government won’t spiral into a leadership challenge. Sterling gained against both the dollar and the euro in London trading as traders judged the resignation of Brexit Secretary David Davis would make a soft exit from the EU ...

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• 9 July

  Daimler halts truck engine supplies on emissions concerns

  

  Bloomberg Daimler halted deliveries of a type of diesel engine for trucks as a precautionary measure, after the company said it found issues that could lead to emissions “slightly” exceeding nitrogen oxide limits under certain conditions. The Stuttgart-based company reported its findings to Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) at the end of June, and is in a “constructive dialog” ...

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