David Calhoun takes the yoke of the troubled airplane maker during a critical time. In the short term, the former GE executive needs to get the grounded 737 MAX series back on track. Yet Robert Cyran explains that Calhoun’s equally pressing job is to o…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s CEO joins Reuters’ Breakingviews for a candid conversation on the outlook for the city, and the year ahead.
The infrastructure and real estate arm of Macquarie may be in talks to buy AirTrunk for over $2 bln. It follows a record year for data centre M&A which saw volumes triple. Alec Macfarlane and Robyn Mak discuss how technology is turning a humdrum sector…
Investors now value Elon Musk’s electric-car maker at some $90 billion. That’s way over the top, requiring heroic assumptions about either annual car sales or the demand for robo-taxis. Neither of those scenarios looks realistic, explains Antony Currie…
Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has set out to defend his reputation in his first appearance since fleeing Japan. He only partly succeeded. Convincing jabs at a harsh justice system came with missteps that won’t help Ghosn’s image rehab, Christopher Th…
A healthy crop of technology firms went public in 2019, like Uber and Lyft. But their stock performance, and the debacle of WeWork’s attempt to float, made a mockery of sky-high private-market valuations. Gina Chon explains why in 2020 investors should…
The Twitter founder has been decisive on political ads and upfront with U.S. lawmakers – unlike some of his rivals. As a looming presidential race makes targets of Facebook and Google, Jack Dorsey could emerge as the closest Silicon Valley has to a goo…
Inbound retail and technology deals suggest the business climate is improving. It helps that U.S. lawmakers are too busy with domestic politics to impose major new sanctions. But big, if hollow, spending plans aren’t taking off. Economic torpor will pe…
Masayoshi Son’s technology conglomerate has poured billions of dollars into companies like Uber and WeWork. But SoftBank is worth much less than the sum of its parts. The Japanese investor will face growing investor calls to dismantle itself in 2020, s…
More than $250 bln of private equity money is sloshing around the region, as a new KKR fund looks set to exceed its flagship U.S. one. Cheap debt helps put another Toshiba-like deal in the frame. Dentsu, Haier and even Woolworths could be targeted, say…