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Bloomberg Hong Kong’s banks are staring at a tough year for business, marred by lower demand for loans and a peak in local property prices. Goldman Sachs Group Inc cut the lenders’ loan-growth estimates and target prices. Citigroup Inc said the banks’ shares may drop as much as 15 percent in 2019. “A cyclical slowdown in loan growth has been ...

Bloomberg India’s new central bank governor has a list of challenges to face as he takes office: from fixing a banking crisis to convincing investors of the institution’s autonomy. Shaktikanta Das, 61, a former economic affairs secretary at the Finance Ministry, took charge at the Reserve Bank of India for a three-year term on Wednesday, two days after Urjit Patel ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG reached a deal worth hundreds of millions of Swiss francs to use Microsoft Corp cloud services in a bid to reduce costs while complying with strict Swiss privacy laws, according to people familiar with the matter. Switzerland’s largest bank may begin to store data at Microsoft’s purpose-built facilities near Zurich and Geneva as soon as next ...

Bloomberg Lion Air Mentari’s owner is sketching out plans to become one of the world’s largest budget carriers, while also preparing to scrap $22 billion in Boeing jet orders out of anger at the manufacturer’s response to an October air disaster. Rusdi Kirana, the co-founder of Lion Air, Indonesia’s biggest airline, mapped out the seemingly contradictory goals in an interview ...

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. says it will deliver its first Global 7500 next week as the company’s biggest luxury jet makes its commercial debut two years later than initially planned. The planemaker is planning an event near Montreal on December 20 to mark the entry into service of its newest aircraft, according to a statement. The Global 7500, which can fly ...

Bloomberg Fashion label Tory Burch is bringing on Pierre-Yves Roussel, a long-time executive at LVMH, as its new chief executive officer as the brand’s eponymous founder steps down from the role. Roussel ran the French luxury conglomerate’s fashion businesses, which include such brands as Celine, Givenchy and Loewe, until he left earlier this year. He will step into his new ...

Bloomberg The French unit of Air France-KLM is getting ready to appoint Anne Rigail as chief executive officer, making her the first woman to lead the airline, a person familiar with the matter said. Her appointment was presented to Air France board members on Wednesday morning, the person said, asking not to be identified because the decision isn’t public. The ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. will need to ramp up deliveries of its 737 jetliners to 83 planes this month to reach its annual target as the planemaker recovers from factory snarls that bedeviled its largest source of profit earlier this year. Boeing shipped 61 of the single-aisle aircraft in November, 18 more than in October, as the company recovered from engine ...

Bloomberg Whole Foods Market, hailed for its high standards for healthy food, ranked worst in a study of five major US grocery chains for chemicals it uses in packaging at its popular hot-food section. In response, the company said it has removed all the coated paper products in question and has started a search for new biodegradable packaging. The study ...

RED SEA COAST / WAM Over 700,000 Yemenis on the Red Sea Coast benefitted from the services and infrastructure aid provided by the UAE during the Year of Zayed, through its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) which launched 100 projects and sent urgent relief convoys to affected areas. The Emirates News Agency (WAM) is monitoring the UAE’s humanitarian ...