January, 2017

• 24 January

  Britain’s budget deficit narrows

  

    Bloomberg Britain’s budget deficit narrowed in December as tax revenue jumped, putting Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond on course to meet his new fiscal forecasts. Net borrowing was 6.9 billion pounds compared with 7.2 billion pounds a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday. It left the shortfall in the first nine months of 2016-17 at ...

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• 24 January

  Gazprom mulls $6 billion asset sales, dividend freeze

  

    Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC, the world’s biggest natural gas producer, is considering asset sales, freezing dividends and increasing its borrowing as export earnings wane, according to its three-year budget. The state-controlled company aims to raise 350 billion rubles (around $6 billion) from asset sales this year, while borrowing may climb to 288 billion rubles and more than double from that ...

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• 24 January

  Asia grabs record North Sea crude oil as OPEC cuts supply

  

    Bloomberg Asia’s oil refineries are turning to the North Sea for crude supplies like never before as their primary suppliers restrict output in an effort to eliminate a glut. Crude exports to Asia from the North Sea are poised to reach a record 12 million barrels in January, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Tankers hauling 9 million barrels from ...

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• 24 January

  Oil rises above $53 as Iraq close to full OPEC cut pledge

  

    Bloomberg US oil advanced to trade above $53 a barrel as Iraq said it’s close to implementing its share of pledged output curbs agreed with OPEC to trim bloated global inventories. Futures rose as much as 1 percent in New York after dropping 0.9 percent on Monday. Iraq, the second-biggest OPEC producer, has reduced supply by 180,000 barrels a ...

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• 24 January

  China’s Cnooc raises spending first time since oil drop

  

    Bloomberg Cnooc Ltd. plans to raise capital spending for the first time since crude began its crash in 2014 as China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer prepares for life after the slump and a second year of falling output. The Beijing-based explorer will increase expenditure, including in the Gulf of Mexico, to 60 billion to 70 billion yuan ...

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• 24 January

  Robots take over oil rigs

  

    Bloomberg The robot on an oil drillship in the Gulf of Mexico made it easier for Mark Rodgers to do his job stringing together heavy, dirty pipes. It could also be a reason he’s not working there today. The Iron Roughneck, made by National Oilwell Varco Inc., automates the repetitive and dangerous task of connecting hundreds of segments of ...

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• 24 January

  Foxconn weighs $7bn US display plant

  

    Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group is considering building a US display-making facility for upwards of $7 billion, a major investment for Apple Inc.’s main manufacturer that may create tens of thousands of American jobs during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. The company is considering a joint investment with Sharp Corp., the Japanese display supplier it bought last year, ...

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• 24 January

  LG inks LCD panel supply pact with Samsung

  

    Bloomberg LG Display Co. has scored a deal to supply television displays to rival Samsung Electronics Co. from as soon as this year, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. LG Display, a major supplier of panels to Apple Inc., will replace a venture between Sharp Corp. and Foxconn Technology Group as a supplier to the world’s biggest ...

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• 24 January

  Yahoo’s 4Q shows modest strides amid security breach fallout

  

    Bloomberg Yahoo’s financial performance improved slightly during the fourth quarter while the company dealt with the fallout from massive security breaches that have jeopar- dized the $4.8 billion sale of its internet operations to Verizon Communications. The fourth-quarter report provided the latest snapshot of a shrinking company that has been steadily losing ground in the digital advertising market that ...

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• 23 January

  Trump pulls US from Pacific trade accord

    Bloomberg President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old US tilt towards free trade by signing an executive order to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that was never ratified and promising to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. “Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said on Monday after signing an order withdrawing the US ...

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