June, 2018

• 12 June

  Sempra Energy soars on Elliott’s bid to streamline and sell assets

  

  Bloomberg Sempra Energy shares had their biggest ever intraday gain as Elliott Management Corp. and Bluescape Resources called for a sweeping overhaul, including selling the company’s Mexican and South American utilities and spinning off its US liquefied natural gas business. The two activist funds together hold a 4.9 percent interest in Sempra — whose assets include San Diego Gas & ...

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• 12 June

  Single European power market gets closer

  Bloomberg The European Union’s vision of a single energy market will move a step closer on Tuesday with the start of a joint market for electricity delivered on the same day. The project, which requires close cooperation between rival exchanges and grid operators, will link 14 national markets from Latvia to Germany and Portugal. Most other European countries are scheduled ...

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• 12 June

  China’s Meituan plans to file for $6 billion IPO

  

  Bloomberg China’s restaurant review and delivery giant Meituan Dianping plans to file for an initial public offering of about $6 billion in Hong Kong as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter, the city’s second multibillion-dollar public listing by a tech startup this year. The company is considering selling about 10 percent of the company, the ...

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• 12 June

  Vietnam passes cyber law denounced in street protests

  

  Bloomberg Vietnam’s National Assembly has passed a cybersecurity law requiring companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. to store all data of Vietnam-based users in the country and open local offices. The measure has drawn rare dissent from some lawmakers and government leaders as well as local tech groups, who sent a petition to the legislature that warned ...

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• 12 June

  Indian TV maker blames Modi, Brazil for bad debt pile

  

  Bloomberg Who’s at fault for Videocon Industries Ltd.’s 39 billion rupees ($579 million) debt pile? The Indian maker of consumer appliances is casting the blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the nation’s top court and the Brazilian government. A bankruptcy court admitted an insolvency petition filed by creditors, led by State Bank of India against Videocon, and ordered debt reorganisers ...

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• 12 June

  Monsanto rival seeks bigger share of Indian food crop seed market

  

  Bloomberg Kaveri Seed Co., which competes with Monsanto Co. to sell hybrid seeds in India, is seeking a bigger share of the food crop market to reduce dependence on cotton seed, its breadwinner. The company gets about 60 percent of revenue from cotton seed sales and the remainder from vegetable seeds and grains including paddy and corn. It aims to ...

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• 12 June

  China phone giant Xiaomi may be twice as expensive as Apple

  

  Bloomberg Chinese serial entrepreneur Lei Jun has been compared with Steve Jobs. Now, analysts are saying the smartphone giant he built could be twice as expensive as Apple Inc. Xiaomi Corp. deserves to trade at a premium to global phone brands due to its market-share gains and faster growth trajectory, according to research from Morgan Stanley, one of banks leading ...

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• 12 June

  BlackRock targets financial advisers with risk ‘X-Ray’ tool

  

  Bloomberg Almost three decades ago, BlackRock Inc. created software to obsessively monitor the then-fledgling firm’s financial risks. Now, after turning it into an essential tool on Wall Street, the firm is zeroing in another kind of client: financial advisers. The world’s largest asset manager is marketing its risk analytics software, known as Aladdin, to the army of wealth managers who ...

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• 12 June

  KKR to buy Envision Healthcare for $5.57bn

  

  Bloomberg Private equity firm KKR & Co. will buy Envision Healthcare Corp. for $5.57 billion plus debt, after a lengthy sale process by the hospital staffing and surgical center company. Including debt, the all-cash purchase will value Envision at $9.9 billion, the health-care company said in a statement. Envision said the $46-a-share price represents a 32 percent premium to its ...

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• 12 June

  Publishers slam Facebook ad policy

  

  Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is facing more blowback for its decision to categorise the promotion of news articles as political content, with global publishers now urging Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to change its policy. Seven trade groups representing media publishers and broadcast organis­ations in more than 120 countries including the New York Times, BBC.com and 21st Century Fox, sent a ...

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