Trade war: China airlines become collateral damage

Bloomberg Chinese airlines ordered more than $100 billion of planes from Airbus SE and Boeing Co. in the past decade. Paying those bills is getting harder with the prospect of a trade war pushing the local currency to its lowest level in six months. A weaker yuan means Air China Ltd., China Southern Airlines Co. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. ...

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Air Tanzania introduces Mumbai flight

Bloomberg Air Tanzania Co. Ltd. will fly to Mumbai three times a week starting in September, it’s first flight outside the continent, after taking delivery of a Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner next month, the Dar es Salaam-based Daily News newspaper reported, citing Commercial and Business Development Director Patrick Ndekana. Tanzania is revamping its erstwhile struggling national carrier after investing in new ...

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Steinhoff Africa falls as Tekkie Town CEO quits amid lawsuit

Bloomberg Steinhoff Africa Retail Ltd. shares fell after Tekkie Town head Bernard Mostert quit alongside fellow senior managers following a legal claim lodged against the retailer by the shoe chain’s founding shareholders. STAR, as Steinhoff Africa is known, has repeatedly said it shouldn’t be held liable for the claim by Tekkie Town founders led by Braam van Huyssteen, which relates ...

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China’s BYD leads in race for biggest EV battery plant

Bloomberg BYD Co. is building what would become the world’s largest vehicle-battery factory next year in an effort by the Chinese electric-car maker to increase capacity and help revive earnings growth. The plant will have an annual capacity of 24 gigawatt-hours when it is fully in use in 2019, enough to equip 1.2 million BYD Tang electric cars, according to ...

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1MDB raids: Cash, luxury goods worth $273mn seized

Bloomberg Malaysia’s police seized about $273 million of items that included Hermes International handbags, Rolex watches and cash in raids linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak amid investigations into troubled state fund 1MDB. Luxury goods such as a 6.4 million ringgit diamond necklace, 51.3 million ringgit worth of Hermes bags and more than 200 sunglasses valued at 374,000 ringgit ...

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China-US trade tariffs may reduce American farm exports by 40%

Bloomberg Bilateral tariffs may reduce the value of US farm exports to China by about 40 percent, according to a report published by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a government think tank. US soybean, cotton, beef and cereal shipments to China may each drop by 50 percent in value, it said in a report published on its official WeChat ...

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TCI, Axon accuse India real estate firm of $1.5bn fraud

Bloomberg Hedge funds run by Christopher Hohn and Dinakar Singh accused one of India’s largest real estate developers of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $1.5 billion. “If we do nothing, we will largely bleed dry and get nothing back,” Singh, who heads Axon Capital, said at a gathering in New York of investors in a fund started by ...

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Radisson to triple rooms in China despite trade war

Bloomberg Radisson Hospitality Inc. is plunging ahead with a plan to triple capacity in China over five years, despite its expectation that a looming trade war with the US will damp travel demand in the country. The chain controlled by China’s HNA Group Co., the aviation-to-hotels conglomerate, has 15 hotels in the country for a total 4,147 rooms, with 16 ...

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China spends big to win friends, influence across East Asia

Bloomberg China spent more than $48 billion across East Asia and the Pacific between 2000 and 2016 to reward countries that consume its products and support its foreign policy positions, a new report has found. Infrastructure investment dwarfed other arms of Chinese public diplomacy over the period, according to a study by US research lab AidData released on Wednesday, totalling ...

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GE exits health and oil as CEO aims to turn around ‘the titan’

Bloomberg This is John Flannery’s General Electric Co. — and so far, Wall Street likes it. A year after being named chief executive officer, Flannery took the boldest steps yet to revamp the sinking corporate titan, unveiling plans to pull GE out of the health-care and oil markets. By slimming it down and reorienting around power, renewable energy and aviation, ...

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