Apple becomes first company to hit $3 trillion market value, then slips
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday became the first company to hit a $3 trillion stock market value, before ending the day a hair below that milestone, as investors bet the iPhone maker will keep launching best-selling products as it explores new markets such as automated cars and virtual reality.
Analysis: After inflation, a bond supply shock may be next for markets
Central banks, the developed world’s most reliable group of bond buyers, could slash debt purchases next year by as much as $2 trillion across the four big advanced economies, implying a potentially hefty rise in many governments’ borrowing costs.
China’s Kaisa struggles for relief from bond holders as default risk looms
Chinese developer Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd (1638.HK) is unlikely to win bondholders’ approval to extend the maturity of a $400 million bond due next week, analysts say, heaping more pressure on other indebted peers.
Analysis: KKR’s Telecom Italia approach may call time on Italy discount
A $12 billion takeover proposal for Telecom Italia by private equity giant KKR has highlighted an ‘Italian discount’, which a surge in investor interest and a European fund aimed at supporting its struggling economy could help narrow.
Stocks lurch lower, bonds jump as virus variant spooks investors
Stocks suffered their sharpest drop in three months in Asia on Friday and oil tumbled after the detection of a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant sent investors scurrying toward the safety of bonds, the yen and the dollar.
Analysis: Amid Bukele’s bitcoin hype, not all Salvadorans ‘Feel the Bit’
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele took the stage last weekend at the end of “Bitcoin Week” to the cheers of fans delighted his Central American country has become the first to adopt crypto currency as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar.
Analysis: Indonesia, India beckon as Fed tapers without tantrums
This November 5th story corrected business name to BNP Paribas Asset Management, not Wealth Management, in paragraph 9
BNP Paribas in wealth management JV talks with China’s AgBank -sources
BNP Paribas’ (BNPP.PA) asset management arm is in talks to form a wealth management venture with a unit of Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank), sources said, as the French firm pursues a bigger slice of China’s $19 trillion market.
China Huarong in talks with investors after $16 bln loss
Chinese state-owned asset manager China Huarong Asset Management (2799.HK) sought on Monday to turn the page on a deep annual loss, as its chairman said it was in talks with potential new strategic investors alongside a CITIC-led consortium.
Analysis: Virtually forever? Switch to online AGMs gains pace despite concerns
A mass corporate switch in Europe to holding virtual annual shareholder meetings or AGMs has picked up pace this year, raising concern among investors that some companies will try to ditch the physical version permanently.
