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Bloomberg China’s main solar industry group sees the nation’s new installations this year between 35 and 45 gigawatts and said almost a quarter of domestic solar companies are shut by the virus outbreak. Even the low end of the installation forecast, posted on the official WeChat account of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA), would be a slight rebound from …

Bloomberg Chevron Corp’s future growth prospects may be dimming after the oil explorer pumped more crude than it discovered or bought last year, eroding its portfolio of untapped fields. New finds, acquisitions and expansions of existing oil and natural gas holdings were equivalent to just 44% of the company’s 2019 production, according to a regulatory filing. That was Chevron’s poorest …

Bloomberg Looking for the smart money in equities these days? Try taking a peek at your next-door neighbour’s portfolio. A basket of the 50 most-popular stocks among individual investors has rallied 13% this year, compared with an 8.7% gain for a gauge of hedge fund favourites, data compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc show. While both exceed the benchmark S&P …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is broadening its perspective on blockchain technology to show how digital money will change the financial world. The emergence of linked databases like the blockchains that enable Bitcoin and Ether to exist as well as changing consumer preferences has turned the modernisation of payments into a global theme, the New York-based bank said in a …

Bloomberg Brigita, a director at one of China’s largest car dealers, is running out of options. Her firm’s 100 outlets have been closed for about a month because of the coronavirus, cash reserves are dwindling and banks are reluctant to extend deadlines on billions of yuan in debt coming due over the next few months. There are also other creditors …

Bloomberg Argentina Economy Minister Martin Guzman and Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), discussed plans for a “secure and orderly resolution” of Argentina’s debt situation, the IMF said. The conversation on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, also touched on ways to secure more sustainable and inclusive growth for the …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is planning to enter the UK consumer-banking market in the next few months, offering a range of savings and loan products under its Chase brand, Sky News reported, citing unidentified sources. The Wall Street stalwart has been in discussions with regulators about securing the necessary approvals to operate in UK personal banking, Sky said. The …

Bloomberg The ousted chief executive of Danske Bank A/S, Thomas Borgen, has been personally targeted in an investor lawsuit arguing he withheld information about potential money laundering that subsequently destroyed the lender’s market value. Deminor, a Brussels-based law firm, said it has filed a legal complaint against Borgen on behalf of 155 institutional investors seeking damages of 358 million euros …

Bloomberg UBS Group AG Chairman Axel Weber said markets are underpricing the risk that the coronavirus poses to the global economy. “There is going to be quite a bit of impact that is going to go beyond the first quarter and that is where fiscal response, providing businesses with some tax relievers, some emergency funding, that is going to be …

Bloomberg Banque Misr SAE is seeking to borrow $250 million from international lenders this year to boost financing at home, while it presses on with plans to expand into three countries it’s targeting in sub-Saharan Africa. Egypt’s second-largest state-owned lender will use the debt to finance small- and medium-size enterprises, among other purposes, Chairman Mohamed Eletreby said in an interview. …