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Bloomberg The pound rallied and gilts fell after the European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said it’s “realistic” to get a Brexit deal within eight weeks. Sterling jumped as much as one percent as Barnier said an agreement is possible by the start of November, though several issues were still outstanding in the talks. That includes measures to prevent the ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. models are signaling that some developing-nation currencies have further to fall, even after a slide unprecedented since the financial crisis. While this year’s sell-off has pushed emerging-market exchange rates into undervalued territory by at least one measure, they are not yet as cheap as in early 2016, analysts at the investment bank including Mark Ozerov ...

Bloomberg Next to a wheat field north of London, banks of solar panels in 35 neat rows are generating electricity without any support from the government. Despite Britain’s reputation for grey skies, the closely-held developer Anesco Ltd. is building the hybrid solar and battery facility in Milton Keynes with its own capital. It’s just one of about 15 photovoltaic projects ...

Bloomberg Mexico’s next president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will allocate $3.9 billion in the budget next year to oil extraction in a bid to resuscitate flagging output. “We are going to allocate budget resources, we are going to make an effort to adjust current spending in order to have more public spending and from the private sector,” said Lopez Obrador, ...

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp., the US energy behemoth, signed deals to move ahead on a proposed multibillion-dollar petrochemical project and a gas import terminal in southern China, contrasting with trade tensions between the two nations that may escalate this week. The Irving, Texas-based company signed cooperation framework agreements with the Guangdong provincial government, it said in a statement, following a ...

Bloomberg Malaysia has finally scrapped three China-backed pipeline projects after halting work on them following the shock elections in May that saw an opposition alliance assuming power for the first time in the country. A finance ministry spokeswoman confirmed that the country has cancelled three China-backed pipeline projects. The Financial Times earlier cited Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng saying ...

Bloomberg The biggest mergers-and-acquisitions boom in Indian history has investment bankers preparing for even more dealmaking to come. Transactions involving Indian companies have reached $104.5 billion in 2018, trouncing the previous annual record with almost four months left in the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The tally may surpass $100 billion again in 2019, said Sanjeev Krishan, a ...

Bloomberg Protracted Brexit talks are weighing on the recovery prospects of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the carmaker that is already under pressure to keep up as the global automobile industry moves toward electrification and automation, according to its Indian owner. The focus of Tata Motors Ltd., which bought the maker of the iconic British marquees in 2008, is to ensure ...

Bloomberg China’s car sales fell for a third straight month as an intensifying trade dispute with the US and slowing economic growth are threatening to end the vehicle market’s almost three-decade expansion. Retail sales of cars, SUVs and multipurpose vehicles declined 7.4 percent to 1.76 million units in August, the China Passenger Car Association said in a statement. That compares ...

Bloomberg Alibaba is heralding the end of the Jack Ma era. A former English teacher who helped found Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. two decades ago, Ma outlined plans to hand the executive chairman role to Daniel Zhang, a finance veteran who’s presided over an ambitious expansion and won over investors in three years as chief executive officer. Ma will officially ...