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Nov.17 — Chulanee Attanayake, visiting research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies of the National University of Singapore, talks about China-friendly Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s victory in Sri Lanka’s bitterly contested presidential election. Attanayake speaks with Juliette Saly and Rishaad Salamat on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

Microsoft said on Monday it was updating the privacy provisions of its commercial cloud contracts after European regulators found its deals with European Union institutions failed to protect data in line with EU law. The EDPS, the EU’s data watchdog, opened an investigation in April to assess whether Microsoft’s contracts with the European Commission and other EU institutions met data protection rules. …read more […]

Nov.17 — Hong Kong police move to clear protesters at a university in Kowloon after a weekend standoff and more violent clashes. Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle reports on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

Nov.17 — Hong Kong police move to clear protesters at a university in Kowloon after a weekend standoff and more violent clashes. Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle reports on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — In a rare show of public support, Palantir Technologies Inc.’s co-founder and chairman Peter Thiel pitched the power of the data-mining company during a splashy Tokyo event marking its formal entry into Asia and a deal with Sompo Holdings Inc.With the $150 million deal, funded 50-50 by Palantir and Sompo, the duo are inaugurating Palantir Technologies Japan Co. The new company will target government and public sector customers, emphasizing health and cybersecurit initially. Like IBM Corp. and other providers, Palantir’s software pulls together a range of data provided by its customers, mining it for patterns and displaying connections …read more […]

China’s central bank unexpectedly trimmed a key interbank lending rate on Monday, the first easing in the liquidity tool in more than four years and a signal to markets that policymakers are ready to act to prop up slowing growth. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website that it was lowering the seven-day reverse repurchase rate to 2.50% from 2.55%. The move cheered China’s bond market and comes just two weeks after the PBOC cut the borrowing cost on its medium-term lending facility (MLF) loans by the same margin. …read more […]

Nov.17 — Richard Harris, chief executive officer at Port Shelter Investment Management, discusses the U.S.-China trade talks and his outlook for the negotiations and the markets. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

Nov.17 — Richard Harris, chief executive officer at Port Shelter Investment Management, discusses the U.S.-China trade talks and his outlook for the negotiations and the markets. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Two- and-a-half years after the Indian central bank took the highly unusual step of directing banks to put 12 large corporate debtors into bankruptcy, the most closely watched of the “distressed dozen” cases has finally been resolved.With the Supreme Court in New Delhi clearing the decks for the sale of Essar Steel India Ltd., the Ruia family has accepted defeat. Control of the 10 million-tons-a-year integrated plant in western India will pass to ArcelorMittal, which will pay banks 420 billion rupees ($5.9 billion), or 90% of their claims.This final episode of a drawn-out legal saga, in which …read more […]

The Mustang Mach E electric sport utility vehicle Ford Motor Co unveiled in Los Angeles on Sunday is more than another car for the storied automaker. The Mach E has become within Ford a high-profile test for a restructuring that has been marred by profit warnings, costly quality problems and the troubled launch this year of another important vehicle, the Ford Explorer sport utility. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Spotify or Pocket Cast.China lowered the cost it charges on short-term open-market operations for the first time since October 2015, a move aimed at shoring up confidence following a string of poor economic data.The People’s Bank of China cut the interest rate on its seven-day reverse repurchase agreements to 2.5% from 2.55% on Monday. The authorities also added 180 billion yuan ($26 billion) of cash into the financial system via open market operations, helping to alleviate liquidity concerns.The yield on …read more […]

Asian shares blipped higher on Monday after Beijing surprised markets by trimming a key interest rate for the first time since 2015, stirring speculation that more stimulus was on the way for the world’s second-largest economy. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan also moved 0.3% higher. Japan’s Nikkei added 0.38%, and was just short of its recent 13-month top. …read more […]

Nov.17 — Lindsey Ford, foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about the protests in Hong Kong. Police moved to clear protesters at a university in Kowloon after a weekend standoff, leading to dramatic scenes with smoke billowing from multiple fires at the campus as the work week kicked off. Ford speaks with Yvonne Man and Tom Mackenzie on “Bloomberg Markets: China Open.” …read more […]