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Bloomberg A senior Chinese foreign-exchange regulatory official called for “special attention” to be paid to blockchain as the nation looks to gain advantages from digital finance. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange is looking to use blockchain and artificial intelligence in cross-border trade finance and macro-prudential regulation, Lu Lei, deputy director of the regulator, said at the Bund Summit in ...

Bloomberg Weeks after Armand Wahyudi Hartono became the vice president director of Indonesia’s largest non-state bank, he noticed how staff were leaving half-empty glasses of water after work. The next morning, he restricted the amount of drinking water available at PT Bank Central Asia’s (BCA) headquarters. Such stringent cost control is just an example of how the lender has managed ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp cut power to more than 2.5 million Californians in the state’s largest deliberate blackout ever. As of midnight local time, the bankrupt utility giant had shut off the lights to 877,000 homes and businesses in 38 counties across Northern and Central California, including parts of Oakland and Berkeley, but sparing the city of San Francisco, as it ...

Bloomberg China’s Tesla Inc fans expecting to get the new, locally built Model 3s on the cheap were just dealt a surprise. Tesla said its China-made vehicles will start at $50,000 in the country, only about 3% less than what the most basic imported models have been going for, after the US company decided to include the Autopilot driver-assistance software ...

Bloomberg The global economic conjuncture is creating an unfavorable environment for investments and international trade, but nobody is expecting an economic crisis in the short term, Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said. “I just came back from IMF, World Bank and G20 meetings. There is concern for the global slowdown, but no one sees a crisis in the short term, ...

Bloomberg A group of prominent economists from the US and China called for the world’s two largest economies to abandon their trade war and agree to a new path forward that would give both countries more latitude to both pursue their own domestic economic policies and hit back at those that hurt them. In a joint statement issued in China, ...

Bloomberg LVMH, the French owner of Louis Vuitton, is exploring a takeover of Tiffany & Co to expand in the US jewelry market, according to people familiar with the matter. The luxury group is holding talks with Tiffany, though there’s no guarantee an agreement will be reached, said the people, who asked not to be identified because discussions are private. ...

Bloomberg Space Exploration Technologies Corp’s second-highest ranking executive said the rocket maker has big advantages over other companies racing to build constellations of internet-providing satellites, including Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc. SpaceX will in the coming weeks launch its next batch of 60 satellites for its Starlink broadband service, Gwynne Shotwell, the closely held company’s president and chief operating officer said. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a US military raid in northwest Syria that left the IS leader “in utter fear, in total panic and dread” in his final moments. The president said other countries should now fight IS. “The United States brought the world’s number one terrorist to justice,” Trump said on Sunday in ...

Bloomberg More than 170 people were arrested in Ethiopia after days of protests that resulted in 67 deaths, according to Amnesty International. Houses were looted and burned in the towns of Dire Dawa and Adama, in the Oromia region, the Ethiopian News Agency reported, citing the respective city administrations. More arrests are expected as investigations continue. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...