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Bloomberg Buyout firm CVC Capital Partners and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte are among firms considering bids for a stake in the $6.4 billion European settlements giant Euroclear, according to people familiar with the matter. The Brussels-based company, which counts London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group Plc as a shareholder, is planning to decide in the coming days whether to ...

Bloomberg A rapid deterioration in Singapore’s economic data has fuelled speculation the central bank will ease monetary policy. The result may be higher interest rates and bond yields. Bets on the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will adjust policy have intensified after government reports over the past month showed the economy unexpectedly shrank 3.4 percent in the second quarter and ...

Bloomberg UK lawyers with lucrative careers in European Union law are fighting to save their jobs after the bloc’s top courts warned that a no-deal Brexit would forbid them from representing clients. In a letter, a senior official at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg urged British lawyers practicing EU law to put in place contingency ...

Bloomberg Renault SA will invest 128.5 million euros ($144 million) for a 50 percent stake in a venture with Jiangling Motors Corp (JMC) to develop electric vehicles in China, part of a push by the French company to make further inroads into the world’s biggest car market. The Chinese entity was created in 2015 and already holds certification to manufacture ...

Bloomberg Europe’s carbon market is nearing the psychologically important threshold of 30 euros ($33.70) a ton after signs the region will tighten rules on polluters and curtail supplies of allowances. The value of the securities that cover greenhouse gas emissions from industry and utilities has almost doubled in the past year, finishing at their strongest weekly close since 2006. That ...

Bloomberg After a scorching weekend across the US east coast, it’s Europe’s turn to dial up the air conditioners and fans this week. Temperatures could rise as high as 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) by Wednesday in London and other parts of Britain, compared with about 21 Celsius now, according to the Met Office. Paris is forecast to be as ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp rose to a record after topping quarterly sales and profit projections, fuelled by steady demand for cloud-computing services and a surprisingly strong Windows business. The company’s forecast promised robust growth will continue into next year. The software maker pledged “double-digit” percentage gains in sales and operating income for the year. Results are getting a boost from larger ...

Boeing Co.’s willingness to put a price tag on its 737 Max crisis and set a firmer timeline for the plane’s return is a sign it sees those troubles as closer to being resolved. The risk is that the company is still the most optimistic one in the room. Boeing announced it would take a $4.9 billion after-tax charge in ...

As part of a settlement with Germany’s antitrust authorities, Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to change a number of its business practices. The move should serve as a model to other US tech companies that prefer to pay fines to the European Union and challenge its antitrust rulings in the courts rather than alter their behaviour to comply with local rules. ...

With almost $13 trillion of bonds in the global debt market yielding less than zero, fund managers are increasingly chasing returns in less liquid assets. The result could be a reduction in the transparency about what portfolios are really worth. Regulators are right to be paying heightened attention to any misadventures in illiquidity. The decline in interest income available in ...