March, 2017

• 28 March

  Dow-DuPont shows innovation is EU’s M&A battleground

  

    Bloomberg Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co.’s success at converting smart ideas in the laboratory into products used by farmers across the world was nearly their undoing when European Union regulators started poking around their proposed $77 billion merger. The bloc has been pushing to encourage investment in research and development as part of its political agenda, and EU ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Swedish miner says Trump doesn’t hold key to metal prices

    Bloomberg The operator of some of Europe’s largest copper and zinc mines expects President Donald Trump’s plans to spend on US infrastructure to have much less impact on base-metal prices than the needs of burgeoning middle-class populations in emerging markets. That’s because projects in the US and other developed countries simply won’t use enough zinc or copper to have ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Home prices go up in 20 US cities

    Bloomberg Home prices in 20 US cities climbed in the 12 months through January at the fastest pace since July 2014, while nationwide the increase in property values also accelerated, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data reported on Tuesday. 20-city property values index rose 5.7 percent from January 2016 (forecast was 5.6 percent) after increasing 5.5 percent in the ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Modi’s power grab in unleashing ‘tax terror’

  

    Relatively quietly, India’s government has just undertaken an unprecedented power grab—one that should worry not just citizens and taxpayers but also foreign investors. And it comes in the most unlikely of places: the annual Union budget. The presentation of the budget is a fairly splashy event; it’s announced by the finance minister in a speech to Parliament that usually ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Grocery giant is about to write off its darkest chapter

  

    Tesco Plc is close to settling with prosecutors over its 2014 profit overstatement. The retailer could within weeks strike a deal with Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, according to Sky News, including a fine of more than 100 million pounds ($126 million). That’s not insignificant. Tesco’s operating profit is expected to be about 1.2 billion pounds in this financial year, ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  China’s great firewall is yet another trade barrier

  

    The San Francisco-based photo-sharing site Pinterest would seem to rank low on the list of potential threats to China. Beloved by fashion designers, photographers, cooks and hobbyists, the seven-year-old website is a global hub for the sharing of images, trends and ideas on topics ranging from living-room design to what to cook at your Saturday barbecue. Unfortunately, Pinterest Inc.’s ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Lufthansa warns Brexit to hit UK airlines as EU gets tough

  

    Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr expects France and Germany to take a hard line against the UK aviation industry in Brexit negotiations, threatening to disrupt flight connections across Europe. “Brexit means Brexit – our industry won’t be exempt,” said Spohr, who has accompanied Chancellor Angela Merkel on state visits and discussed the matter with German, ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Amazon wins battle to buy Souq.com

  

    Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. has won the battle to acquire Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com, after walking away from a deal earlier this year. The US e-commerce giant trumped an offer from Emaar Malls PJSC, operator of the world’s biggest shopping center, which bid $800 million for Souq.com. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed in a joint statement from Amazon ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Tesco to pay £214 million fine in UK accounting scandal

  

    Bloomberg Tesco Plc agreed to pay 214 million pounds ($269 million) to resolve regulatory probes into a 2014 accounting scandal that prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the UK grocer’s supplier relations. Tesco said its UK unit will pay 129 million pounds under a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office, subject to court approval, and ...

  Read More »
• 28 March

  Laptop ban may boost Air India’s traffic, finance head says

  

    Bloomberg Air India Ltd., the country’s national carrier, may see a jump in passengers after the US barred people travelling by some Middle Eastern airlines from carrying large electronic devices on flights bound for the country, its finance head said. Etihad Airways PJSC, Qatar Airways Ltd. and Emirates Airline Ltd, which carry about 19 percent of travellers flying to ...

  Read More »