Bloomberg Special Counsel Robert Mueller ended his probe without indicting one of its most politically sensitive subjects: Donald Trump Jr. A key episode in Mueller’s 22-month probe into Russian election meddling was a secret meeting that the president’s eldest son took at Trump Tower in Manhattan in 2016 with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin on the promise of ...
Read More »UK cabinet ministers war-gaming the fall of May
Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May is confronting what could be the end of her premiership as the near impossible task of delivering a Brexit deal cracks her fragile government apart. In the past two weeks, May has lost the trust of her cabinet ministers, infuriated members of parliament on all sides, and been told to her face a growing ...
Read More »Asian investors binging on US corporate debt in 2019
Bloomberg Japanese investors are powering this year’s US corporate bond rally. Money managers in Asia are binging on blue chip American company debt after having cut back late last year. A measure of overseas buying in 2019 has more than doubled from a year earlier, according to Bank of America Corp. Japanese purchases of foreign debt, including US corporate bonds, ...
Read More »Pinterest joins US IPO wave with fast revenue growth
Bloomberg Image search site Pinterest Inc. revealed steady revenue gains with narrowing losses as well as a big bet on overseas expansion, as it joined a surge of technology-related companies planning to go public in the US. Pinterest in its filing for an initial public offering reported strong user growth internationally and even a profit in the fourth quarter. It ...
Read More »General Motors plans $1.8bn US investment after Trump criticism
Bloomberg General Motors Co. committed to investing $1.8 billion at plants in six states and to creating 700 new jobs, as the largest US automaker looks to ward off months of criticism by President Donald Trump. The bulk of the new jobs will go to a factory in Michigan where GM plans to add production of another fully electric vehicle. ...
Read More »Exxon aims to cut cost of pumping Permian oil to $15
Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to reduce the cost of pumping oil in the Permian to about $15 a barrel, a level only seen in the giant oil fields of the Middle East. The scale of Exxon’s drilling means that it can spread its costs over such a big operation that the basin will become competitive with almost anywhere in ...
Read More »Investors shun Mylan over sales misses
Bloomberg Even after losing a third of its market value over the past year, Mylan NV hasn’t been able to win back investors. “This is a name where sentiment is really, really bad,†Evercore ISI analyst Umer Raffat told clients, after visiting with investors. Raffat was quick to defend the stock in light of the feedback, reiterating his bullish stance. ...
Read More »US existing-home sales rise at fastest pace in a year
Bloomberg Sales of previously owned US homes rebounded in February to fastest pace in almost a year, topping estimates and snapping a three-month streak of declines to offer a robust indication that the housing market is stabilising after last year’s slump. Contract closings increased 11.8 percent, the most since 2015, from January’s pace to a 5.51 million annual rate, the ...
Read More »Trump’s ‘promises’ to the Rust Belt may haunt him
When General Motors idled its auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, this month, President Trump adopted a familiar strategy: He issued a nasty string of tweets blaming other people and promised, in effect, that he would restore the past. Trump’s angry, backward-looking approach may still appeal to some Rust Belt voters. But in the Ohio and Pennsylvania towns that helped win ...
Read More »Italy gets good news about its banks
The banking industry hasn’t given Italy many reasons to celebrate. The country has stumbled from crisis to crisis, as it fought a rearguard action against the EU’s rules for handling failing lenders. The EU judges gave Rome a rare moment of joy. The bloc’s general court, its second-highest tribunal, ruled that the 2014 rescue of Banca Tercas SpA by the ...
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