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Goldman Sachs renames business units ahead of quarterly results

The bank said it would report its future earnings, starting with the latest December quarter, under the newly named business units – investment banking, global markets, asset management and consumer & wealth management. Goldman renamed its institutional client services business as global markets, while investment management has been renamed as asset management, the bank said in a regulatory filing. …read more […]

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Factbox: Boeing's 737 MAX compensation deals with airlines

Boeing’s best-selling plane was grounded in March 2019 after two fatal crashes in which all 346 passengers and crew were killed. There were 387 737 MAX planes being operated by 59 airlines at the time and a backlog of orders worth more than $500 billion at list prices. Aeromexico said on Jan. 6 it had reached a compensation agreement with Boeing over the grounding of the 737 MAX. …read more […]

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Facebook defies China headwinds with new ad sales push

Facebook Inc is setting up a new engineering team in Singapore to focus on its lucrative China advertising business, according to three people familiar with the effort, even as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg ramps up criticism of a country that blocks the social network. The team at Facebook’s Asia-Pacific headquarters is tasked with developing better ad-buying tools for Chinese customers who have to work around internet restrictions in China known as the “great firewall,” the sources said. One of the people described it as Facebook’s first significant attempt at developing regionally localized ads tools outside of its …read more […]

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Nissan bolsters taskforce to prepare for Ghosn broadsides – sources

Nissan Motor Co has strengthened a taskforce of senior officials ahead of an expected onslaught of criticism from former chairman Carlos Ghosn following his dramatic escape from house arrest in Japan, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Ghosn, who fled Japan to his home in Lebanon late last month, has said he will hold a press conference on Wednesday to give his side of the story following his arrest in late 2018 for alleged financial misconduct, which he denies. Nissan has denied this, and is bracing for more such allegations. …read more […]

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Tesla Opens Chinese Plant as Era of Real Competition Begins

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. kicked off production in China, marking a major step in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s global push for electric-vehicle domination and heralding what could be the dawn of real competition in the world’s largest EV market.Musk presided over a ceremony on Tuesday at a new multibillion-dollar plant near Shanghai — its first outside the U.S. — where the American company handed over the first China-made Model 3 sedans to the public, the first one being a white sedan going to a man from the nearby city of Wuxi. Technically, deliveries began last week but those were …read more […]