February, 2018

• 28 February

  Oil set for first monthly drop since August on US stock fears

  

  Bloomberg Oil is poised for its first monthly decline in half a year as January’s rally fades on growing fears over booming US shale supply. Futures in New York were little changed, putting them on course for a 2.8 percent drop in February. An industry report was said to show US oil inventories rose last week, which would be the ...

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• 28 February

  America’s biggest solar buyer has a low profile

  

  Bloomberg The biggest buyer of solar farms in America is a company you’ve probably never heard of. Meet Capital Dynamics, an asset manager that handles $15 billion. The firm’s been snapping up clean-power plants for years, but it wasn’t until this month — when the company agreed to spend almost $1 billion on a solar business — that it really ...

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• 28 February

  Oklahoma toughens oil fracking rules as earthquakes climb

  Bloomberg Oklahoma is tightening its rules for fracking after studying a new cluster of earthquakes in one of the hottest US regions for drilling. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced that all explorers within certain areas must use equipment known as a seismic array, which detects movement underground. The regulators also lowered the quake threshold for pausing work from 3.0 magnitude ...

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• 28 February

  China’s Geely to use $9 billion collar trade on Daimler deal

  

  Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Li Shufu’s Geely Group structured the purchase of its 7.3 billion-euro ($9 billion) stake in Daimler AG through complex derivative transactions that allowed the buyer to build a large equity holding while limiting the risks, people with knowledge of the matter said. Geely entered into a so-called collar trade for the entire stake, making this the largest ...

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• 28 February

  Tencent leads $115mn deal in India’s Gaana

  

  Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. is pushing deeper into the Indian technology market, with a sizable investment in New Delhi-based music streaming service Gaana, a person familiar with the matter said. The investment in Gamma Gaana Ltd. totals $115 million, and Times Internet Ltd., the Indian media and technology company that started the business, will also participate, said the person, who ...

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• 28 February

  Binani attracts record $980mn bid

  

  Bloomberg An investor group backed by Bain Capital is poised to win the bidding for India’s Binani Cement Ltd., which is being sold under the country’s insolvency process, people with knowledge of the matter said. The consortium led by Dalmia Bharat Ltd., which was competing with billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla’s UltraTech Cement Ltd., made a bid of about 63.5 billion ...

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• 28 February

  Hong Kong wants more Teslas on roads

  Bloomberg Hong Kong just made buying an electric car cheaper, unveiling a tax benefit that’s set to boost demand for Teslas and other green vehicles from makers such as BMW. Electric-vehicle buyers who trade in an eligible gas-guzzler will get a waiver of as much as HK$250,000 ($32,000) on the first registration tax, the government said when delivering its annual ...

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• 28 February

  Yahoo Japan slumps after shareholder stock sale

  

  Bloomberg Yahoo! Japan Corp. shares fell by the most in 10 months after Altaba Inc., its second-largest shareholder, outlined plans to sell its stake in the country’s most popular web portal. The stock fell as much as 9.6 percent, the most since April 2017, after Altaba Chief Executive Officer Thomas McInerney said in a conference call that the company is ...

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• 28 February

  Bezos-backed cancer-screening startup pursues HK for IPO

  

  Bloomberg A US-based cancer detection startup backed by the world’s two richest men is planning an initial public offering in Hong Kong, people with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering the Asian financial centre’s push to start attracting biotech listings. Grail Inc. is working with advisers on the proposed share sale, the people said, The firm may seek to raise ...

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• 28 February

  UK’s May to fight over draft Brexit deal

  

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to reject the European Union’s draft Brexit deal when it’s published, a senior official said, as her government steps up its fight with the bloc over the terms of Britain’s departure. With just three weeks left to agree on the Brexit transition phase, the EU will unveil a legal text that’s likely to ...

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