April, 2017

• 9 April

  Storm woes force delay of 275 Delta flights

  

    Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc., the second-largest airline in the U.S., canceled about 275 flights and warned that more could be scrapped after severe thunderstorms stymied travel out of the company’s largest hub this week. The airline extended a travel waiver to help customers change flights without fees if their travel plans are flexible, according to a statement posted ...

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• 9 April

  A ‘royal’ reunion!

  

    DALLAS / AP A Faberge egg and the jeweled elephant designed to fit inside it are being reunited for the first time in almost a century thanks to a loan from Queen Elizabeth II to a Texas museum. A gallery that opens on Monday at the Houston Museum of Natural Science features the elephant, which only recently was discovered to ...

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• 9 April

  Trump preparing orders to expand offshore oil drilling

  

    Bloomberg President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order with the goal of giving oil companies more opportunities to drill offshore, reversing Obama-era policies that restricted the activity. The offshore drilling directive is set to be issued soon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told an industry conference in Washington, according to three attendees who spoke on condition of ...

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• 9 April

  Coking coal posts record surge to near $300 on Aussie curbs

    Bloomberg The largest disruption to Australian metallurgical coal exports in six years has caused a record surge in spot prices after flooding from cyclone Debbie swamped rail tracks and cut deliveries to ports. Hard coking coal jumped 86 percent to $283.10 a metric ton this week, the biggest gain in data going back four years, according to The Steel ...

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• 9 April

  Iran to cut benefits on oil sales to Indian state refiners

  

    Bloomberg Iran will cut some benefits to Indian state-run refiners on crude purchases after the South Asian country decided to reduce the amount of oil it buys from the Persian Gulf nation, people with knowledge of the matter said. National Iranian Oil Co. will cut the credit period on crude oil sales to 60 days from 90 days for ...

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• 9 April

  Canada’s Source Energy seeks $130 million in IPO in price cut

    Bloomberg Source Energy Services Ltd., Canada’s largest distributor of fracking sand, is seeking to raise C$175 million ($130 million) in an initial public offering, reviving the deal after it was postponed last month as oil prices fell, according to people familiar with the sale. The Calgary-based company plans to sell the shares at C$10.50 apiece, down from the previous ...

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• 9 April

  Traders anxious on China local government debt

  

    Bloomberg The scent of doom is returning to China’s local government bond market. S&P Global Ratings pulled the trigger on the first ever downgrade of a Chinese local-government financing vehicle, citing the city in eastern Jiangsu province’s high debt burden. Traders and analysts are uneasy as well, with 18 of 29 polled in a Bloomberg News survey saying they’d ...

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• 9 April

  Australian regulators too late to tackle home boom

  

    Bloomberg Jonathan Tepper, the founder of a London-based research firm who a year ago warned that Australia had one of the biggest housing bubbles in history, has attacked regulators for acting too late to cool the market as they ignored their own warning signs and were hostile to suggestions property was too expensive, according to the Weekend Australian. The ...

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• 9 April

  Unilever set to test May’s Brexit strategy

  

    Bloomberg Unilever Plc’s announcement that it’s looking at ending its dual nationality and basing itself in London or Rotterdam means Theresa May finds her Brexit strategy facing either a big endorsement or an early blow. Few companies have more day-to-day contact with the British people than Unilever. It estimates its products, from Marmite and Vaseline to Hellman’s mayonnaise, are ...

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• 9 April

  Trump-Xi meet sets base for stronger ties: Ford CEO

    Bloomberg The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this week is encouraging and sets the stage for the world’s two largest economies to strengthen ties, said Ford Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields. “When you have two leaders meet face to face, they become people to each other,” Fields said in an interview with Bloomberg ...

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