July, 2017

• 10 July

  China producer price inflation steadies over robust demand

  

  Bloomberg China’s producer price gains held up, signaling that demand in the world’s second-largest economy is maintaining pace for now, even in the face of regulatory curbs. The producer price index rose 5.5 percent in June from a year earlier, in line with the estimate in a Bloomberg survey as well as the reading in May. The consumer price index ...

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• 10 July

  India’s Sensex advances to record as rival index suffers outage

  

  Bloomberg Indian shares rose, and the benchmark index rallied its second record high in three sessions, after a regulator tightened rules for offshore derivatives and banned so-called “naked” bets. The National Stock Exchange, the country’s largest bourse, suffered its longest technical outage, handing over the volumes to rival BSE Ltd. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex climbed 1.1 percent to close ...

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• 10 July

  Japanese funds pile into US, Europe bonds before selloff

  Bloomberg Japan’s investors returned to developed bond markets in May, mopping up Treasuries, German bunds and French debt one month before a global selloff sparked by hawkish comments from major central banks. Investors bought a net 1.32 trillion yen ($11.6 billion) of US sovereign debt in May, the most in nine months, according to Japan’s balance-of-payment data released on Monday. ...

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• 10 July

  Political meltdown foils Oi’s exit from $19bn bankruptcy

  

  Bloomberg For more than a year, Oi SA has struggled to reach a deal with various factions jockeying for a leg up in its $19 billion bankruptcy case. Almost entirely absent from that process? The company’s single biggest creditor. Brazil’s government claims that Oi owes telecom regulator Anatel as much as 20 billion reais ($6.1 billion), but current law forbids ...

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• 10 July

  Gold elite challenged by base metals bourse on market future

  

  Bloomberg The world’s biggest industrial metals exchange is taking on the most powerful players in the gold market with the launch on Monday of its first futures contract for the commodity since the middle of the 1980s. The London Metal Exchange and its partners aim to grab a piece of the action in a city where almost half the world’s ...

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• 10 July

  FDA eyes computer simulations to cut costs

  

  Bloomberg Computer simulations may get a role alongside human testing as part of an effort to bring new medications and medical devices to market more quickly and cheaply. The US Food and Drug Administration outlined a proposal to help integrate computer modeling and virtual testing as part of the regulatory approval process for manufacturers — a step the agency said ...

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• 10 July

  UK business says no Brexit deal not an option in EU talks

  

  Bloomberg UK companies are overwhelmingly opposed to Britain walking away from talks to leave the European Union without a deal, a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce shows. More than a third of businesses want the UK to stay in the EU single market and customs union, according to the poll of 2,400 firms published on Monday. Almost 30 ...

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• 10 July

  Carillion plunges as profit misses goal, dividend suspended

  

  Bloomberg Carillion Plc plunged the most on record after the British construction company said first-half profit will be lower than expected, dividend payments will be suspended and the chief executive officer has stepped down. Cash flow from some projects has deteriorated, and the board will review all of the company’s major contracts with the help of KPMG, Carillion said in ...

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• 10 July

  The ‘historical’ scars of America’s violent birth

  

  Some American history museums belabor visitors with this message: You shall know the truth and it shall make you feel ashamed of, but oh-so-superior to, your wretched ancestors. The new Museum of the American Revolution is better than that. Located near Independence Hall, it celebrates the luminous ideas affirmed there 241 Julys ago, but it does not flinch from this ...

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• 10 July

  Taking a bite out of Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google, the Indonesian way

  

  Nationalism minus chauvinism. That’s how Indonesia wants to deal with FANG. Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google—the four horsemen of the digital economy—will get to play freely in the archipelago’s 260-million-strong consumer market, according to communications and information technology minister Rudiantara. The minister, who uses only one name, has no airy-fairy notions about national digital champions who’ll help keep Indonesian money ...

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