September, 2017

• 26 September

  After London bans Uber, New York weighs limits to help yellow cabs

  

  Bloomberg A week after London moved to revoke Uber Technologies Inc.’s operating license, the company and its electronic ride-hailing competitors are feeling the heat in New York as city officials consider moves to regulate and control the industry. The City Council was considering a six-month study of Uber’s impact on the traditional yellow cab business, where the value of medallions—licenses ...

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• 26 September

  Puerto Rico in ‘deep trouble’ as storm adds to debts: Trump

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Puerto Rico is in “deep trouble” as devastation brought by Hurricane Maria adds to the crippling debts that have already pushed the US territory into a record-setting bankruptcy. The storm, the worst to batter the island in nearly a century, caused widespread flooding, washed away roads and knocked out power to its 3.4 million residents ...

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• 26 September

  Hurricane Maria punishes US refineries without touching land

  

  Bloomberg Hurricanes sometimes don’t need to make landfall to cause problems for US refineries. At least two East Coast refineries are making less gasoline and diesel as rough Atlantic seas hamper the transfer of crude oil from ships to barges for delivery to the facilities, people familiar with operations say. Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc., which operates the largest oil-refining complex ...

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• 26 September

  Driverless madness

  

  Driverless vehicles may not be all that they’re cracked up to be. Indeed, they may be harmful to our collective security and well-being. Unless you’ve been vacationing on Saturn, you know that driverless vehicles are the next Big Thing. Almost every major car company (General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes) has a program, often in cooperation with tech firms. A few ...

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• 26 September

  Is timing right for India’s digital push?

  

  India’s digital push has got its timing all wrong. Yes Bank Ltd., one of the nation’s fastest-growing lenders, has cut 12 percent of its workforce, mostly salespeople. When Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, starts a new bank soon, it won’t have any branches. According to BloombergQuint, shop attendants that sell its phones will double as bankers. It ...

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• 26 September

  Investors reward Argentina for taming inflation

  Where in the world can you get more than 11 percent from bonds since June and 41 percent from bank stocks this year, with inflation evaporating as the gross domestic product and currency strengthen? That would be Argentina, a financial integrity scofflaw for most of the past century, now bringing a bonanza to global investors. Since he was elected president ...

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• 26 September

  How Portugal can make its economic comeback last

  If there’s a symbol of the breadth of the euro zone’s recovery, it’s Portugal. In 2011, it had to accept an international bailout on punishing terms. Today, three years after graduating from that program, growth and confidence have returned. As if to mark the achievement, S&P Global Ratings just raised Portugal’s sovereign rating to investment grade. This success is real—but ...

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• 26 September

  China could seize a chunk of the skies for itself

  

  Last week, the Commercial Aviation Corp. of China Ltd. (Comac) announced that the C919, China’s first homemade large passenger jet, had chalked up its 730th pre-order. Those numbers won’t necessarily make the Boeing Co. or Airbus SE quake; Boeing estimates Chinese airlines alone will require 5,420 new single-aisle planes by 2036. Ultimately, though, they could herald the end of global ...

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• 26 September

  Republicans’ toxic fight for states’ rights

  

  As Congress factors in Senator John McCain’s refusal to back, for now, the latest scrupulously unvetted legislation to scramble the American health-care system, the gamey smell of states’ rights still lingers in the air. “Instead of a Washington-knows-best approach like Obamacare, our legislation empowers those closest to the health-care needs of their communities to provide solutions,” said Republican Senator Lindsey ...

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• 26 September

  Merkel’s lacklustre win is good for Germany

  

  The sour faces of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies after the first exit poll results for the federal election were announced on Sunday night will prompt much talk of a Pyrrhic victory for Merkel. But the outcome of Sunday’s election could be good both for her and for German democracy: It has clarified the options for the next governing coalition, ...

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