Bloomberg Airbus SE shares climbed the most in three months after the aircraft manufacturer looked on course to meet its full-year deliveries target, strengthening its hand against wounded rival Boeing Co. A December flurry of Airbus planes sent to buyers pushed the 2019 number to about 860, based on preliminary findings, according to a person familiar with the matter, who ...
Read More »India builder blames government for not paying debt on time
Bloomberg Peninsula Land Ltd, an Indian property developer, blamed overdue rent from prime minister Narendra Modi’s government for missing a 23.5 million rupees ($330,000) debt payment. It couldn’t pay State Bank of India (SBI) on time because India’s tax departments, which had leased office space from Peninsula, were delaying rent payments, the company said in a filing. The loan used ...
Read More »Ghosn escaped same day close surveillance stopped
Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn slipped out of his Tokyo home moments after round-the-clock surveillance of his residence stopped on December 29, Japan’s Sankei newspaper reported. A private security company hired by Nissan Motor Co had been closely monitoring Ghosn while he was out on bail, the newspaper said, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The surveillance ended after Ghosn’s lawyer ...
Read More »iFast, China partners bid for S’pore digital license
Bloomberg Singapore-listed fintech firm iFast Corp said it led a consortium of Chinese partners to submit an application for a digital wholesale bank license in the city state. The bid was submitted at the end of December, the company said in a stock exchange filing . Its Chinese partners are Yillion Group and Hande Group. Yillion operates one of four ...
Read More »Adani to buy a deepwater port in India
Bloomberg Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd agreed to acquire a deepwater port on India’s east coast for an enterprise value of $1.9 billion, a move that will help the nation’s biggest port operator by market capitalisation expand capacity by 64 million metric tons. Adani Ports will purchase 75% of Krishnapatnam Port Co in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, it ...
Read More »Ousted Bitmain co-founder wages battle for control in court
Bloomberg Ousted Bitmain Technologies Ltd co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan has initiated a legal case to try to regain his position, escalating a battle for control of the world’s biggest miner of cryptocurrency. Great Simplicity Investment Corporation, owned by the engineering whiz-turned-entrepreneur, filed a summons in December in which he asked a Cayman Islands court to reverse a shareholder decision that ...
Read More »HK unveils plan to deal with pneumonia cases
Bloomberg Hong Kong unveiled a plan to deal with infectious diseases after a mysterious pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The government classified the response level as “serious†— the second-highest scale of action in its three-tier system, with the top-most being emergency, according to the Department of Health. The public hospitals in Hong Kong have reported ...
Read More »US automakers sow worry on future as discounts prop sales
Bloomberg Carmakers extended a streak of strong US sales by slathering on the incentives and pumping up deliveries to fleet customers in 2019, calling into question whether the companies can maintain momentum into the new decade. While industrywide deliveries exceeded 17 million for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year, sales slowed in the final months of 2019. General Motors Co and ...
Read More »US factory gauge hits 10-year low amid global slowdown
Bloomberg US manufacturing closed out a tumultuous year with the weakest monthly performance since the end of the recession, with orders shrinking and factories continuing to dial back production. The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers’ index fell to 47.2 in December, 2019 from 48.1, the fifth straight month of contraction and missing estimates for a rise in a Bloomberg ...
Read More »Apollo-backed security firm in talks for debt restructuring
Bloomberg Constellis Holdings LLC, a security contractor backed by Apollo Global Management Inc, is in talks with creditors on a deal to restructure its $1 billion of debt, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The firm, which has provided some security services around the US embassy complex in Iraq — the site of anti-American protests this week — ...
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