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Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co withdrew its dividend outlook and said it’s now undecided on a payout, an unexpected blow to top shareholder Renault SA. The Japanese automaker, which slashed its profit and sales outlook for the current fiscal year to March, had already cut its dividend earlier this year. It withdrew its outlook for a 40 yen-per-share divided for the ...

Bloomberg Tata Group, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), has approached carmakers including China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co and BMW AG as it seeks partnerships for the beleaguered British automotive business, people with knowledge of the matter said. India’s largest conglomerate has said it’s open to finding partners for JLR to save on costs and share the burden ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte is eyeing its first euro-bond sale in almost four years, as low borrowing costs draw more Asian issuers to Europe. The state investor may sell 12-year and 30-year benchmark notes, according to a person familiar with the matter, who is not authorised to speak publicly and asked not to be identified. The AAA rated issuer ...

Bloomberg German businesses are more pessimistic on one of their biggest markets than they’ve been in years. A survey of more than 500 companies with operations in China showed only a quarter expect to meet or exceed their business targets this year, according to the German Chamber of Commerce in China. More than 80% are experiencing either direct or indirect ...

Bloomberg India’s factory output shrank to the lowest level in eight years, as a sharp fall in capital goods production underlined weak demand in Asia’s third-largest economy. The index of industrial production fell 4.3% in September, data released by the Ministry of Statistics showed. That compares with an estimate for a 2.5% contraction, and is the lowest since October 2011. ...

Bloomberg Each year India’s rice farmers burn the stubble of the harvested crop, contributing to an annual haze that damages the health of those in and around the capital. Yet the country is producing more rice than it needs thanks to government subsidies. Guaranteed prices have encouraged farmers to grow so much rice — one of the most water-intensive crops ...

Bloomberg SunPower Corp, one of America’s largest solar-panel makers, is giving up its manufacturing business to focus on installing rooftop solar systems. The company is spinning off its panel production operations into a new company, Maxeon Solar, that will be based in Singapore with factories in France, Malaysia, Mexico and the Philippines, according to a statement. As part of the ...

Bloomberg Angola may buy as much as 5,000 megawatts from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo’s proposed $14 billion hydropower plant. In its current design, the Inga III dam would be the biggest hydropower plant in Africa, generating 11,050 megawatts. The two partners developing the project — one Chinese, one Spanish — submitted a joint proposal to the Congolese government last ...

Bloomberg East Africa’s largest economy needs between $15 billion and $18 billion to achieve all-round electricity access by 2022, according to Power For All, a global coalition of 200 private and public organisations campaigning for universal reach. “With almost $15 billion in investment into a suite of projects — geothermal, off-grid, energy efficiency, transmission — Kenya could achieve universal access ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration may delay a decision on whether to slap tariffs on European automobiles after an intense lobbying campaign by German carmakers highlighted plans to shift global production to American suppliers, people familiar with the White House deliberations said. In May, President Donald Trump gave himself a deadline of mid-November to decide whether to impose levies on cars ...