July, 2017

• 16 July

  China’s clean up pits old economy against new

  

  Bloomberg Xie Shuijuan, a lifelong textile seller in Shaoxing, eastern China, says a clampdown by zealous officials on pollution caused by the local dyeing industry has boosted prices, squeezed her margins, and bankrupted some of her friends. Yet she’s not opposed. “This river used to smell in the summer and garbage floated on the surface,” Xie said, sitting in her ...

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• 16 July

  Chinese investors buy Kyoto luxury sports car maker in EV deal

  

  Bloomberg China’s drive to dominate the electric-vehicle market has claimed another overseas target. When Japanese electric-vehicle startup GLM Co. needed more funding to put its high-end sports car into production, domestic backers couldn’t muster the financing. The search for an investor ended this week, when a Hong Kong-based investment company called O Luxe Holdings agreed to purchase the firm for ...

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• 16 July

  Toshiba to hold chip unit deal until court hearing

  

  Bloomberg Toshiba Corp., whose sale of its chip unit is being challenged in court by manufacturing partner Western Digital Corp., agreed to hold off closing the deal until a hearing on July 28. Toshiba will proceed with negotiations and contract signing in the meantime, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement. The two companies were in court in the US ...

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• 16 July

  Beijing keeps deals coming to sustain Trump’s focus on trade discussions

  Bloomberg Chinese officials and executives have been roaming the farmland of Iowa and doing what might appeal to US President Donald Trump most: deals. Contracts signed— for the import of 12.5 million tons of US soybeans and tons of beef — can be seen as another result of the renewed economic-diplomacy push started by Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

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• 16 July

  UK’s worst property market Aberdeen braces for Brexit

  

  Bloomberg First it was the collapsing oil price. Now it’s Britain’s quest to leave the European Union. There’s little respite for the country’s worst-performing property market. Home prices in Aberdeen, Britain’s oil hub on Scotland’s northeast coast, have fallen more than 10 percent over the past three years as the North Sea energy industry slumped. Now it’s the political backdrop ...

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• 16 July

  Dormant Argentina IPO market prepares for 2018 awakening

  

  Bloomberg Argentina’s IPO market hasn’t had quite the jolt some investors were expecting. A year and a half after President Mauricio Macri took office, new share sales are slow to take off. Just one company has completed an international initial public offering. The delay comes as private companies wait for their valuations to rise, while taking advantage of their low ...

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• 16 July

  Carillion turns restoration project as bankers called in

  

  Bloomberg In 2014, UK builder Carillion Plc was riding high: it had just won a $434 million contract to build the Royal Liverpool Hospital and was attempting to snap up its struggling rival Balfour Beatty Plc for about $2.6 billion. Three years later, and the former Tarmac business is on life support. Carillion has lost 70 percent of its market ...

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• 16 July

  White House takes pitch for healthcare bill to US governors

  Bloomberg The Trump administration took its case directly to US governors that the pending Senate health-care bill won’t hurt their residents with insurance, even as critics say it will cut billions in funding and leave millions more people without coverage. “You listen to one side, and they said, ‘Your funding’s not going to be decreased,”‘ said Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, ...

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• 16 July

  AT&T plans major organizational changes after deal

  

  Bloomberg AT&T Inc. is planning major organizational changes to follow the $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., including a redefined role for Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson, as the telecommunications giant morphs into a media company. Stephenson will oversee a pair of CEOs who will independently manage the company’s telecommunications and media businesses, according to people familiar with the ...

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• 16 July

  Would Congress act on its war responsibilities?

  

  Predictably and sensibly, a three-judge panel of the nation’s second-most important court, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, recently dismissed, unanimously, a lawsuit brought by a Yemeni man, two of whose relatives were collateral fatalities in a 2012 US drone attack that killed three terrorists. The suit asked the court to declare the attacks illegal under several ...

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