Bankers in Asia are betting on newly-listed companies returning to the markets for fresh capital as last year’s flood of initial public offerings (IPOs) slows to a trickle, with 2019 seeing the weakest start in equity sales in three years.
Brazil’s navy has selected German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp and domestic aircraft maker Embraer to build four corvettes, Thyssenkrupp said on Friday.
AstraZeneca Plc and Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd signed a deal to develop and sell Daiichi’s cancer drug trastuzumab deruxtecan that could see the British drugmaker pay as much as $6.9 billion to its Japanese partner.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held “constructive” talks in Beijing, he said on Friday, concluding the latest round of dialogue aimed at resolving the bitter trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
New York’s financial regulator has sent letters to Nordic banks Nordea and SEB asking for detailed information about their dealings with Danske Bank, Bloomberg reported, citing an unidentified source.
Swedish fashion retailer H&M reported a much smaller than expected fall in first-quarter pretax profit on Friday as it sold more products at full price and saw an improvement in margins.
Tour operator Tui AG on Friday warned it would take a 200 million euro ($225 million) profit hit in 2019 due to the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircrafts in the wake of two deadly crashes of the model.
China’s Huawei Technologies called on Washington to drop the “loser’s attitude” and once again rubbished U.S. allegations its gear could be used by Beijing for spying, as its network business weakened amid mounting global scrutiny.
Swedish fashion retailer H&M reported a smaller than expected fall in first-quarter pretax profit on Friday as it sold more products at full price and saw an improvement in margins.
Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air, which is operated by flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, has canceled a plan to lease two Boeing Co 737 MAX jets, a spokesman said on Friday.
Swedish fashion retailer H&M reported on Friday a smaller than expected fall in fiscal first-quarter pretax profit as it sold more products at full price and improvement in purchasing and logistics.
Asian shares rose on Friday, led by a surge in Chinese equities, on hopes that Washington and Beijing are making progress in trade talks, while global bond yields moved higher after a prolonged slide on worries about the economic outlook.
A South Korean supplier of Tesla Inc said on Friday it had agreed to buy a shuttered auto factory from General Motors’ local unit to start contract manufacturing of electric vehicles.
Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sank 17 percent in the first quarter of 2019, as concerns about an economic slowdown and fears of a no-deal Brexit in Europe spooked chief executives and corporate boardrooms from pursuing big tie-ups.
Investigators into a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people have reached a preliminary conclusion that an anti-stall system was activated before the plane hit the ground, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the matter.
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