CLP Power, Hong Kong’s largest electricity supplier, will raise its fuel cost adjustment (FCA) next month – the first increase in more than a year – citing changes in actual fuel prices. Starting from April 1, the FCA will rise from 39.2 HK cents to 39.8 HK cents per kilowatt-hour, an increase of 0.6 HK cents, according to the power supplier’s website on Wednesday. CLP serves Kowloon, the New Terr...
CLP Power, Hong Kong’s largest electricity supplier, will raise its fuel cost adjustment (FCA) next month – the first increase in more than a year – citing changes in actual fuel prices. Starting from April 1, the FCA will rise from 39.2 HK cents to 39.8 HK cents per kilowatt-hour, an increase of 0.6 HK cents, according to the power supplier’s website on Wednesday. CLP serves Kowloon, the New Territories and Lantau Island. With the basic tariff included, the net electricity charge for April will...
Henkel AG is in advanced talks to buy Olaplex Holdings Inc. , the hair-care brand that developed a cult following for its shampoos and other treatments, according to people familiar with the matter. Dusseldorf, Germany-based Henkel could announce a deal as soon as the coming days for Olaplex, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The companies are discussing a...
Henkel AG is in advanced talks to buy Olaplex Holdings Inc. , the hair-care brand that developed a cult following for its shampoos and other treatments, according to people familiar with the matter. Dusseldorf, Germany-based Henkel could announce a deal as soon as the coming days for Olaplex, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The companies are discussing a price that values Olaplex at about $2 per share, the people said. Nothing is finalized and the talks could still fall apart or the timing could change, the people said. Representatives for Henkel and Olaplex didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Olaplex, which counts private equity firm Advent as its largest shareholder, was among a class of companies that went public in 2021 at peak valuations in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Shares of Olaplex are down about 25% from earlier this month after management warned investors of a weak first quarter. The stock closed at $1.33 Wednesday in New York trading, giving the company a market value of about $890 million. Henkel, which makes chemicals for industrial and commercial goods, owns hair-product brands including Schwarzkopf and Not Your Mother’s, which it recently acquired . Bloomberg News reported in January that Henkel had made an offer for Olaplex.
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Citigroup Inc. ’s Jan Metzger , co-head of investment banking for Asia, has stepped down six months after the firm named a new executive to share the role. Kaustubh Kulkarni , who was tapped from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in September, will now be sole head of investment banking for the region, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. It was confirmed by the bank’s spokesman in Hong Ko...
Citigroup Inc. ’s Jan Metzger , co-head of investment banking for Asia, has stepped down six months after the firm named a new executive to share the role. Kaustubh Kulkarni , who was tapped from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in September, will now be sole head of investment banking for the region, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. It was confirmed by the bank’s spokesman in Hong Kong. Kulkarni, a 28‑year JPMorgan veteran, is based in Singapore and reports to global banking chief Viswas Raghavan , another ex‑JPMorgan banker who moved to Citi in 2024. Since joining, Raghavan has been aggressively poaching former colleagues to boost the firm’s share of Asia’s banking fee wallet. While Metzger has helped Citigroup land some of Asia’s biggest tech mandates, the bank’s equity capital markets record has been uneven. It briefly rose to No. 1 in Asia stock sales in 2024, only to slide back to seventh in subsequent years. Metzger, who grew up in Sri Lanka, started out as a software engineer before moving into finance in 2000. He joined Citigroup in 2015 from Credit Suisse, where he led regional technology, media and telecommunications investment banking coverage and helped oversee Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s initial public offering in New York.
In this episode of Motley Fool Money , Motley Fool contributors Jon Quast, Matt Frankel, and Rachel Warren discuss: To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy . A full transcript is below. Continue reading
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The long-distance Coast to Coast route which stretches across the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors is now an official National Trail.
The long-distance Coast to Coast route which stretches across the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors is now an official National Trail.
US president says he will host Chinese leader in a reciprocal visit later this year Donald Trump will meet Xi Jinping in May during the US president’s first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip that had been postponed due to the Iran war. Trump was initially slated to travel next week, but will now visit Beijing on 14 and 15 May, he wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. Tr...
US president says he will host Chinese leader in a reciprocal visit later this year Donald Trump will meet Xi Jinping in May during the US president’s first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip that had been postponed due to the Iran war. Trump was initially slated to travel next week, but will now visit Beijing on 14 and 15 May, he wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. Trump said he would host the Chinese leader in a reciprocal visit in Washington later this year. Continue reading...
A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. ’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms. While the $6 million in damages a jury in Los A...
A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. ’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms. While the $6 million in damages a jury in Los Angeles awarded to the 20-year-old plaintiff — which the companies vowed to appeal — will barely register on their balance sheets, the impact of the verdict will likely be more damaging and harder to quantify. The loss, in the first of thousands of product-liability lawsuits against Meta, Google and other social networks, is the kind of black eye that often leads to an increase in government regulations. Unless the verdict is overturned on appeal, the companies may need to change how their products work, a move that could jeopardize the valuable advertising businesses that keep platforms like Instagram and YouTube so profitable. “This is going to be the era of products liability,” said Jess Miers, an assistant professor at the University of Akron School of Law. Miers wasn’t surprised by this week’s verdict and said it could be a turning point for how people access information online. “I think it perfectly reflects the animosity that people are feeling toward tech,” Miers added. People see these tech giants “as not just companies that provide us access to content, whether we like that content or not, but who also have a large role in the way that our democracy is functioning or not functioning, and our sort of broader humanity as well.” For years, social media companies have been shielded from most legal threats thanks to laws that grant them immunity from the potentially inflammatory or damaging content their users post. This week’s verdict changed that calculus. The content on Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube wasn’t the focus of the trial. Instead, plaintiffs attacked ...