Ackman’s SPAC signs deal to buy 10% of Vivendi’s Universal
Billionaire investor William Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH.N) signed a deal to buy 10% of Universal Music Group (UMG), Taylor Swift’s label, for about $4 billion, the companies said on Sunday.
Dubai Airshow to take place under capacity restrictions, organiser says
The Dubai Airshow, this year’s biggest aerospace trade show and a spectacle for business deals worth billions of dollars, will be held under capacity restrictions in November due to the coronavirus pandemic, its organiser said.
Wall St Week Ahead Fed shift causes rally in value stocks to wobble
The Federal Reserve’s hawkish shift is forcing investors to reevaluate the rally in so-called value stocks, which have taken a hit in recent days after ripping higher for most of the year.
Oil prices firm on summer demand as Iran talks drag
Oil prices edged higher on Monday, underpinned by strong demand during the northern hemisphere summer driving season and a pause in talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal that could lead to a resumption of crude supplies from the OPEC producer.
In Indonesian banking, rise in religious conservatism ripples across sector
A rise in religious conservatism in Indonesia is drawing talent away from what some view as un-Islamic jobs in banking, industry professionals say, creating hiring woes for conventional banks but a boon for the country’s fledgling sharia finance sector.
ECB makes good progress on new strategy, Lagarde says
European Central Bank policymakers meeting this weekend made “good progress” in reshaping the ECB’sstrategic goals, including the role it plays in fighting climate change and a revised approach to inflation, President Christine Lagarde said on Sunday.
Bank of Canada to break sequence of lower terminal rates as governments splurge
With fiscal spending booming and households flush with cash, investors are betting that the Bank of Canada’s next tightening cycle, expected to begin in 2022, will result in interest rates climbing above the previous peak for the first time in decades.
Italy, hosting G20, will call for tougher ‘gig economy’ rules
Italy will call for tougher rules governing ‘gig economy’ workers when it hosts labour ministers of the world’s biggest economies in the Group of 20 next week.
Explainer: Mystery behind slump in India’s Adani Group company shares
Shares of companies controlled by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani recorded their biggest weekly losses ever. The six stocks cumulatively lost 1.91 trillion Indian rupees ($25.83 billion) of value over five days through Friday.
Ferrari, Amazon’s AWS enter agreement on data
Ferrari (RACE.MI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered an agreement to make Amazon’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit the luxury carmaker’s cloud storage, machine learning, and artificial intelligence provider, AWS said on Friday.
