August, 2017

• 22 August

  South African food retailer Shoprite’s profit up 12%

  

  Bloomberg Shoprite Holdings Ltd. full-year earnings rose 12 percent, in line with analyst estimates, as Africa’s largest food retailer boosted market share in its home market of South Africa and continued to expand elsewhere in the continent. Headline earnings per share, which exclude one-time items, were 10.07 rand a share in the 12 months through June, the Cape Town-based company ...

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• 22 August

  Turkish discount retailer Sok plans an IPO in 2018

  Reuters Turkish discount retailer Sok is planning an initial public offering in 2018, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, the latest sign that Turkey’s IPO market may be coming back to life. Sok, with more than 4,700 stores and 21,000 employees, is one of Turkey’s biggest discount retailers, selling groceries, fresh produce and household items. It is 39 ...

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• 22 August

  TUI’s Air Berlin interest confined to safeguarding own staff

  

  Bloomberg TUI AG wants to safeguard the jobs of 700 of its employees staff who work planes leased to ailing Air Berlin Plc and isn’t interested in rescuing the insolvent carrier. Europe’s biggest holiday company, which disclosed last week that it would engage in talks following the insolvency filing, doesn’t plan to pick up assets and is neutral on what ...

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• 22 August

  Saudi could get $21bn non-oil boost in 2018

  

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s non-oil revenue could surge by about 80 billion riyals ($21.3 billion) next year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, boosting the kingdom’s efforts to reduce the economy’s reliance on crude. The increase would be driven by the implementation of value-added taxation, a tax on luxury products and higher fees imposed on expatriates’ dependents, London-based economist Jean-Michel ...

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• 22 August

  Reliance mulls India power storage venture with BP

  

  Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd., owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, is considering entering the power-storage business with its partner BP Plc. to expand into the country’s growing renewable energy sector, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. The companies are considering a plan to set up energy-storage projects near solar- and wind-energy installations, the people said, asking ...

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• 22 August

  Oil Search output goal up on record New Guinea gas

  Bloomberg Oil Search Ltd., the Papua New Guinea-focused energy explorer, raised its full-year production target because of record output from the country’s liquefied natural gas project. The company lifted the lower end of its 2017 production guidance to 29 million barrels of oil equivalent from the previous 28.5 million, while leaving the upper end at 30.5 million barrels, citing record ...

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• 22 August

  Petrobras suffers growing pains in Brazil’s freed up fuel market

  

  Bloomberg Zema, a 94 year-old retailer of toys and appliances in Brazil’s interior, has become an unlikely thorn in the side of state-controlled oil behemoth Petroleo Brasileiro SA. This year Zema, which also runs gas stations, got its first fuel import license and joined a fast-growing group of new players that managed to, at least temporarily, squeeze Petrobras out of ...

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• 22 August

  Overseas investors get cold feet on South Korea debt

  

  Bloomberg North Korea’s saber-rattling is at last being felt in its southern neighbour’s bullet-proof bond market. Foreign investors have started to look for the exits, selling a net $415 million worth of Korean notes last week, only the second weekly outflow since November, according to the nation’s Financial Supervisory Service. That’s a precipitous drop from the $4.3 billion of net ...

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• 22 August

  Singapore to prop tech startups with business offers

  

  Bloomberg Singapore’s government will support technology startups by doing business with them rather than having them rely on grants as the city-state pushes ahead with a plan to become a high-tech hub, a top minister said. The government wants to fuel private-sector innovation, especially among small and medium-sized firms, in a bid to create a digitally integrated economy, Vivian Balakrishnan, ...

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• 22 August

  China cash squeeze lurks as $340bn NCDs come due

  Bloomberg China’s money market is bracing for yet another squeeze. A record 2.3 trillion yuan ($340 billion) of negotiable certificates of deposit—a funding lifeline for medium and smaller banks—are set to mature next month, adding to the stress of an official deleveraging drive that has pressured onshore bonds lower in all but two months of this year. The flood of ...

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