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...Cooper of Ninety One says the global EV market is dominated by China, which accounts for 60 per cent of plug-in electric car sales....
...at US-based consultancy Oliver Wyman responsible for the company’s automotive and private equity business....
...Amy Celico, a former USTR official who focused on China and is now at Albright Stonebridge, an advisory firm in Washington, said the “gloves are off” in the US-China relationship, but that both in Congress...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...These include the escalating tensions between the US and China, the growing concerns about currency debasement following the sharp rise in the money supply, and the negative real interest rates....
...equity as currency be a driver?...
...VW has to rely on debt to finance its overhaul, and has “de facto no equity capital market access”, he said. “What Diess is doing is braver than what Elon Musk is doing....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...They are adaptors, not innovators,” says the China head of one international private equity firm with expertise in technology. “The system needs checks and balances. But will they stop innovation?...
...“The most plausible explanation is a China Inc deal,” says a research note from Bernstein in Hong Kong, noting that a number of other Chinese companies have been stopped by Chinese regulators from going...
...Not months.” - Zion President, Dustin Guinn #israel $zn — Zion Oil & Gas, Inc....
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...Mr Sohn was behind Samsung’s $8bn purchase of US automotive and audio electronics company Harman International in 2016....
...System-wide deposits shrank 1.2 per cent from a year ago, after falling 1.0 per cent year-on-year in March....
...Now China is responding with its very own quartet of Bants — Baidu, Alibaba, Netease and Tencent. Since 2013, emerging market equity funds have quadrupled their exposure to China’s new Gang of Four....
...How to navigate that transition, and how significant the subsequent disruption to the traditional automotive business will be, are matters of intense debate from Silicon Valley and Detroit to China, Germany...
...US naval history offers clues to China’s intent All the focus may be on crumbling equity markets and the plummeting renminbi....
...“They wanted to move away from the automotive business and become a faster-moving, higher-margin industrial conglomerate,” said Ephraim Levy, an equity analyst for S&P Capital IQ....
...After trading resumed, it then plunged by another 2% in six minutes and triggered a trading halt for the rest of the day for onshore stocks, equity ETFs, convertible bonds and equity index futures”....
...Johnson Controls has been exposed to China’s slowdown through its car-seat division, which has a venture with China’s Yanfeng Automotive....
...Earlier this year, the UK-based company moved to a system of quarterly dividends....
...An agreement last year by ZF Friedrichshafen of Germany to pay $12.4bn for TRW Automotive, a US manufacturer of radar systems, is just the start of wider consolidation, reckon bankers....
...Speaking at the Automotive News World Congress on Tuesday, Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk said demand in China was slowing, as sales were affected by concerns about too few chargers, pushing Tesla shares...
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