Year: 2020

Avenue Capital Group CEO and legendary investor, Marc Lasry, joins ‘Influencers with Andy Serwer’ to discuss the pandemic’s impact on the global economy. …read more […]

Nokia, battling with China’s Huawei and Sweden’s Ericsson, is trying to strengthen its 5G slate and looking especially to deployment by U.S. telecom companies for growth. Overnight, JP Morgan downgraded Nokia to “neutral” from “overweight”, citing a potential loss of business with Verizon. “We believe that there is a real risk Verizon will depend less on Nokia as their primary RAN (radio access network) supplier going forward,” JPM said in a note, adding there were signs Verizon was using Samsung. …read more […]

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) warned that it sees travel bookings weakening as the recent resurgence in coronavirus infections and the related new restrictions imposed by some U.S. states are curtailing demand.The news sent shares down 7.6% to $32.58 at the close on Tuesday. In a Town Hall for its operational employees, the ailing airline said that consolidated capacity for June was down about 88% year-over-year and that July capacity is expected to be down about 75% year-over-year.Looking ahead to the peak summer season, management also indicated that capacity for August will probably be down about 65% year-over-year. In addition, …read more […]

Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, plans a Hong Kong float as soon as this year and targets a valuation of more than $200 billion, said two sources with knowledge of the matter. The world’s most valuable tech “unicorn” had been looking to sell shares in Hong Kong and mainland China simultaneously, but is now leaning heavily towards the Asian financial hub first because it would probably face a smoother listing process, the sources and a third person with knowledge of the matter said. It is looking at selling between 5% and 10% of …read more […]

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Aircraft lessor Avolon announced that it cancelled commitments to acquire an additional 27 of Boeing Co.’s (BA) 737 MAX aircraft after already cancelling 75 of the planes in the first quarter of the year.In addition, Avolon scrapped the commitment to acquire one of Airbus Group’s (EADSF) A330 neo aircraft due to be delivered in 2022 and deferred the delivery of 3 A320 neo family aircraft from 2020/21 to 2022.Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft have been grounded since March 2019 following a second deadly crash. The plane maker has recently started flight tests of the 737 MAX to try and receive regulatory …read more […]

Shares in TechnipFMC (FTI) spiked 11% in Tuesday’s after-hours trading after the company announced a major Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Assiut National Oil Processing Company (ANOPC) for the construction of a new Hydrocracking Complex for the Assiut refinery in Egypt.TechnipFMC clarified that a “major” contract is over $1 billion.The contract covers new process units such as a Vacuum Distillation Unit, a Diesel Hydrocracking Unit, a Delayed Coker Unit, a Distillate Hydrotreating Unit as well as a Hydrogen Production Facility Unit using TechnipFMC’s steam reforming technology. The project also includes other process units, interconnecting, offsites and utilities.According to …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is testing China’s digital cash as a payment method on its platform, in what could be one of the first real-world applications of the electronic version of the yuan.The SoftBank Group Corp.-backed startup said on Wednesday it’s working with a research wing of the People’s Bank of China on uses for the virtual legal tender dubbed Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DCEP. That includes testing the token on its ride-hailing platform, people familiar with the matter said. Specifics like when the feature will officially roll out aren’t clear yet, they said, asking not to …read more […]

Shares in AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (AMC) jumped 12% in extended market trading amid a report that the cash-strapped U.S. theater chain is about to strike a restructuring deal to avoid filing for bankruptcy.The stock rose to $4.61 in Tuesday’s after-market trading. The proposed deal, which is expected to be disclosed in coming days, would see bondholders providing a $200 million senior loan to swap their unsecured claims at a discount for new, second-lien debt, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Private-equity firm Silver Lake Group LLC, which has a representative on the company’s board and owns …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, which draws more than two-thirds of its pretax income from Hong Kong, slumped after a report that the U.S. is mulling a move to punish banks in the city and destabilize the currency peg to the dollar.HSBC was specifically mentioned as a potential target, Bloomberg News has reported, citing people familiar. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo last month singled out Peter Wong, the bank’s Asia Pacific chief executive officer, for signing a petition supporting “Beijing’s disastrous decision to destroy Hong Kong’s autonomy.”HSBC fell as much as 3.1% in Hong Kong, the most in more than …read more […]

Boeing Co has reached settlement agreements in more than 90% of the wrongful death claims filed in federal court after the 2018 crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX in Indonesia that killed all 189 people on board, a court filing on Tuesday said. The fatal crash, followed within five months by another 737 MAX jetliner in Ethiopia, led to the worldwide grounding of the best-selling model and a corporate crisis that has included hundreds of lawsuits alleging the jet was unsafe and separate probes by the Justice Department and U.S. lawmakers. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Some top advisers to President Donald Trump want the U.S. to undermine the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the U.S. dollar as the administration considers options to punish China for recent moves to chip away at the former British colony’s political freedoms, according to people familiar with the matter.The idea of striking against the Hong Kong dollar peg — perhaps by limiting the ability of Hong Kong banks to buy U.S. dollars — has been raised as part of broader discussions among advisers to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and hasn’t been elevated to the senior levels of …read more […]

Facebook (FB) is no stranger to controversy. In 2019 alone it faced congressional hearings regarding data breaches, concerns over users’ privacy, regulatory issues concerning its proposed digital currency Libra, and a public outcry for allowing false claims in political ads. It managed to swat all these concerns away and only recently FB stock marched to a new all-time high.But the movement to boycott ad spend on Facebook has intensified on account of an inadequate response to the use of hateful and misleading information on its platform. With more companies onboarding by the day, has the time of reckoning finally come …read more […]

Investors will be paying close attention to Bed Bath & Beyond earnings and weekly mortgage applications data Wednesday. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc., Google and Twitter Inc. — all of which are blocked in the mainland — are now headed toward a showdown with China that could end up making Hong Kong feel more like Beijing.Hours after Hong Kong announced sweeping new powers to police the internet on Monday night, those companies plus the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Zoom Video Communications Inc. all suspended requests for data from the Hong Kong government. ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, which has Chinese owners, announced it would pull its viral video app from the territory’s mobile stores in the coming days even as …read more […]