EM rout forces RBI into conflicting market actions

Bloomberg A global squeeze on emerging market assets has forced the Reserve Bank of India to take actions that sometime appear at conflict with each other. To help cool rising bond yields, the central bank said that it will buy bonds for the first time in 18 months, infusing cash into financial markets. But that counters moves to prop up ...

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Philippine central bank pulls rate trigger as economy booms

Bloomberg The Philippines became the latest emerging market to raise interest rates, following through with a pledge to curb inflation in a booming economy. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas increased the overnight reverse repurchase rate to 3.25 percent from a record-low 3 percent, it said in a statement in Manila. Thirteen of 16 economists predicted the decision, with the rest expecting ...

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Airbus CFO Wilhelm to leave in 2019 along with CEO Enders

Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Financial Officer Harald Wilhelm will follow Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders out the door in April, deepening a shakeup of senior management as the European planemaker grapples with the future of the A380 superjumbo and a long-running bribery investigation. Wilhelm, 52, decided “in agreement with the board of directors” that he will leave in April after ...

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Asia’s crowded budget airline market gets one more entrant, JAL

Bloomberg Asia, where more than a dozen new low-fare carriers started in the past two decades, got a new entrant in Japan Airlines Co. Japan’s second-largest carrier is deepening its bet in the market for frills-free air travel by setting up a carrier in July for medium-to-long-haul international flights from Narita International Airport, which serves Tokyo. The yet-to-be named carrier ...

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Ethiopian Airlines to add Manchester from Dec ‘18

Bloomberg Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise will start serving Manchester in northern England from December, adding a second UK destination months before Britain is due to quit the European Union and 45 years after the carrier began flying to London Heathrow. The service from Addis Ababa will operate four times weekly using a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner jet in a two-class layout, ...

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Down $78bn in value, Tencent faces worst margins

Bloomberg After the giddy heights of January when its shares hit an all-time high, Tencent Holdings Ltd. has shed $78 billion in value as investors price in the costs of the Internet giant’s massive spending spree. Results on Wednesday are expected to show that rising costs and investments will hurt profitability at Asia’s biggest listed company. While Tencent has said ...

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Retailers try ‘Ferris Bueller’ plan to oppose Trump’s tariffs

Bloomberg Ferris Bueller may have missed his economics lesson on tariffs the day he cut class, but one of Washington’s biggest trade groups is making sure President Donald Trump and other policy makers don’t. The National Retail Federation (NRF) is starting an advertising campaign this week featuring actor and commentator Ben Stein, who’s reprising his role as the economics teacher ...

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Al Mazrouei says OPEC has ‘buffer’ of potential output

Bloomberg OPEC has enough spare production capacity to cushion oil markets if the US re-imposes sanctions on Iran, according to United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei. Three members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE — together have enough capacity, Al Mazrouei said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Abu ...

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Embassy of Kosovo opens in Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI / WAM President Hashim Thaci of Kosovo inaugurated the new Embassy of Kosovo in Abu Dhabi in the presence of Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation. Al Hamli congratulated the Kosovo President on the opening of the new embassy, praising the role of the Kosovo government and its diplomatic mission for their great ...

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Damac lists sukuk worth $400mn on Nasdaq Dubai

DUBAI / WAM Nasdaq Dubai on Sunday welcomed the listing of $400 million Sukuk by Damac Real Estate Development Limited (DRED). The listing on the region’s international exchange supports Damac Properties’ capital raising programme for general corporate purposes and its ongoing growth strategy, as it continues to extend its footprint in the Middle East and beyond with projects in the ...

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