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Most major US equity indices closed lower, while APAC and
European markets were mixed. US government bonds closed lower,
while most benchmark European bonds closed higher. European iTraxx
closed almost unchanged across IG and high yield, CDX-NAIG was also
flat, and CDX-NAHY was modestly wider on the day. The US dollar
closed higher, while oil, natural gas, gold, silver, and copper
were all lower on the day.
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Americas
Most major US equity indices closed lower except for Nasdaq
+0.2%; S&P 500 -0.1%, DJIA -0.3%, and Russell 2000 -0.6%.
10yr US govt bonds closed +2bps/1.32% yield and 30yr bonds
+2bps/1.97% yield.
CDX-NAIG closed flat/49bps and CDX-NAHY +4bps/290bps.
DXY US dollar index closed +0.2%/92.95.
Gold closed -2.1%/$1,727 per troy oz, silver -4.3%/$23.27 per
troy oz, and copper -1.3%/$4.29 per pound.
Crude oil closed -2.6%/$66.48 per barrel and natural gas closed
-1.9%/$4.06 per mmbtu.
A slide in oil accelerated on Monday, sending prices around
their lowest level in 2½ months with traders worried that fresh
restrictions to slow the spread of the Delta variant will weaken
the global economy and crunch fuel demand. Investors are
particularly concerned about tumbling demand in China, where
Beijing health authorities said last week that the city would
cancel all large-scale exhibitions and events for the remainder of
August. Similar measures in the world's largest commodity consumer
stand to stall a recent rebound in travel, worrying traders because
China's economic recovery had already shown signs of petering out
in recent months. (WSJ)
Global reaction to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's (IPCC) latest climate assessment was as forceful as the
language of the report itself, as governments and NGOs said the
stark conclusions in the report provide further evidence that broad
and deep responses must be made to avoid the worst impacts of
global warming. Using terms like "sobering" and "frightening,"
climate leaders said the report raises the pressure on the
participants at the November COP26 meeting to produce stronger and
more enforceable measures to reduce global GHG emissions. Coming
less than three months before the COP26 meeting in Glasgow,
Scotland, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), "The Physical
Science Basis," firmly ties rising temperatures and more severe
weather to human activity. Also, it indicates that widespread
mitigation measures, especially for the regions that will be most
hard-hit by rising temperatures and sea levels, also will be
necessary. (IHS Markit Net-Zero Business Daily's Kevin Adler and Amena
Saiyid)
AR6 is the first of a series of three IPCC reports, and it
outlines the projected impacts of five emissions scenarios, which
range from achieving net zero or even declining emissions by 2050,
to a doubling of annual emissions, compared with current levels.
AR6 will be followed by two reports to be published in 2022 that
will look at how to adapt to these impacts and how to prevent the
worst-case scenarios.
The IPCC said in the report that it has "high confidence" that
human activities are the main drivers of more frequent and intense
heat, melting glaciers, warmer oceans, and acidification of rain.
"It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere,
ocean, and land," the IPCC said.
The global surface temperature has increased in each of the
last four decades. "The likely range of total human-caused global
surface temperature increase from 1850-1900 to 2010-2019 is 0.8°C
to 1.3 degrees C, with a best estimate of 1.07 degrees C," the
report said. "Human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that
is unprecedented in at least 2,000 years."
IPCC added: "It is virtually certain that the global upper
ocean (0-700 meters) has warmed since the 1970s and extremely
likely that human influence is the main driver."
The new estimates sped up the point when the world will pass
1.5 degrees C warming to 2040. If emissions are not checked over
the balance of the century, the worst-case scenario in the report
says that temperatures could rise by 4.4 degrees C or more.
US municipal bond issuance for the month has improved to +19%
MTD following last week's over $10 billion weekly calendar, which
was swiftly absorbed across buyside accounts as firms seek to
deploy cash during the negative net supply dynamic given the
progression of summer redemptions. As muni mutual fund flows remain
positive, accounts continue to scan the new issue calendar in an
effort to take down bonds, evidenced by last week's successful
pricing of the $932 million New York City Transitional Finance
Authority future tax secured subordinate bonds, offering greater
par size for institutional players. The state of Michigan also
experienced significant demand on a $854 million offering with
proceeds partially appropriated to the Rebuilding Michigan Program,
driving bumps of 2-8bps spread across the scale given overarching
buyer demand. This week's calendar is slated to offer $9 billion of
new issue paper across 107 negotiated deals representing ~75% of
the total weekly calendar with a greater presence of tax-exempt
issuance geared toward retail investors. Allegheny County Airport
will lead this week's negotiated calendar, selling $823 million of
revenue bonds for Pittsburgh International airport with maturities
ranging from 01/2026-01/2056. The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel
Authority of New York will also come to market with $450 million of
payroll bonds, scheduled to price Thursday. This week's competitive
calendar will provide 143 issues for a total of $2.25 billion led
by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Aa3/AA/-),
auctioning $328 million of subordinated sales tax bonds with a
self-labeled sustainability designation selling on Tuesday. (IHS
Markit Global Market Group's Matthew Gerstenfeld)
Averaged over the last seven days, the count of US seated
diners on the OpenTable platform was about 9% below the comparable
period in 2019. This is below readings in late July and is the
first sign in the high-frequency data tracked in this space of
potential economic fallout from the rapid spread of the Delta
strain of COVID-19. Meanwhile, box office revenues turned up last
week but are still well below levels from 2019. (IHS Markit
Economists Ben
Herzon and Joel
Prakken)
The latest US Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)
report points to a strong June for the labor market. With almost
50% of the total population fully vaccinated and a low tally of new
daily infections, most states have eliminated all pandemic-related
restrictions, giving a boost to the labor market, which is evident
in this release. (IHS Markit Economist Akshat Goel)
Job openings rose to a new series high of 10.1 million in June.
The number of hires rose to a 12-month high of 6.7 million.
Job separations were also up, rising to 5.6 million in June
while the layoffs and discharges fell to a series low of 1.3
million.
The quits rate, a valuable indicator of the general health of
the labor market, rose 0.2 percentage point to 2.7%. In June, 3.9
million people quit their jobs and were responsible for an outsized
portion of the increase in total separations.
Over the 12 months ending in June, there was a net employment
gain of 6.9 million.
There was 0.9 unemployed worker for every job opening in June.
This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that the
number of jobs exceeded the number of unemployed.
US tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) has
increased its offer to acquire UK inhaled-therapeutics specialist
Vectura to GBP1.65 (USD2.29) per share, in response to a rival
offer of GBP1.55 per share made by US private equity company
Carlyle. According to the Financial Times, PMI's new offer comes
after Vectura's board and a group of investors representing 11.2%
of Vectura's equity gave their support to Carlyle's offer. PMI's
new offer equates to a total price of GBP1.02 billion, which
compares with Carlyle's total of GBP928 million. Carlyle made its
latest offer on 6 August, after its original offer was trumped by a
rival bid from PMI almost one month ago. (IHS Markit Life Sciences'
Milena
Izmirlieva)
Cargill and Continental Grain have together agreed to buy US
poultry giant Sanderson Farms in a deal valued at just over $4.5
billion. (IHS Markit Food and Agricultural Policy's Max Green)
Upon completion of the transaction, Sanderson Farms will be
combined with Wayne Farms, a subsidiary of Continental Grain, to
form a new, privately held poultry business.
Cargill said the combination will create a best-in-class US
poultry company with a high-quality asset base, complementary
operating cultures, and an industry-leading management team and
workforce. "The new company will be well positioned to enhance its
service to customers across retail and food service and drive
organic growth in an industry fueled by affordability and key
consumer trends around the health, sustainability, and versatility
of chicken," it added.
The purchase price of $203 per share represents a 30.3% premium
to Sanderson Farms' unaffected share price of $155.74 on June 18,
2021, the last full trading day prior to media speculation about
the potential takeover deal.
The acquisition consortium said it has equity and debt
financing in place to complete the transaction.
Magna increased its full-year 2021 guidance after the first
quarter, but with its second-quarter results, it revised the
guidance downward. Magna's second quarter included sales reaching
USD9.0 billion, compared with USD4.3 billion in the second quarter
of 2020; year-on-year (y/y) results appeared strong. However, Magna
noted this was "well below our expectations for the second quarter
of 2021." Improvement came on the back of a weak first quarter of
2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had affected production and sales
globally. (IHS Markit AutoIntelligence's Stephanie
Brinley)
Magna reported net income of USD424 million in the second
quarter, compared with a USD647-million loss in the corresponding
quarter of 2020. Income from operations before income taxes was
USD540 million in the second quarter, compared with a
USD789-million loss a year ago.
It posted adjusted EBIT of USD557 million, compared with
USD600-million loss a year ago. Adjusted EBIT improved as a
percentage of sales (6.2% instead of a loss a year earlier) on the
negative impact of the pandemic on the second quarter of 2020, cost
and operation efficiencies, higher tooling costs in the second
quarter of 2021, and lower engineering costs on upcoming ADAS
program launches. These factors were partially offset by production
disruptions in the second quarter of 2021, higher employee profit
sharing and executive compensation on the strong quarter, higher
launch costs and net customer price concessions after the second
quarter of 2020.
All of Brazil's YTD light-vehicle sales metrics are positive as
2020 was hit hard by the pandemic, but in 2021 the semiconductor
shortage is having an impact, as well as Brazil continuing to
struggle with containment of COVID-19. Brazil's light-vehicle sales
reached 162,206 units in July, down 0.7% y/y. Exports declined
21.2% while production slipped 9.3% y/y. Brazil's light-vehicle
market is forecast for a weak recovery phase through until 2025,
with recovery from the weak 2020 becoming more difficult. The
full-year sales forecast for 2021 has been revised downward to 2.14
million units, up only 8.6% from 2020 and the fourth downward
revision to the IHS Markit forecast this year. Brazil is forecast
to see single-digit y/y improvements in the next few years,
although the market is not expected to record full-year sales
higher than in 2019 until 2024. After falling to 1.96 million units
in 2020, IHS Markit forecasts Brazil's LV production will exceed 3
million units again in 2024. (IHS Markit AutoIntelligence's Stephanie
Brinley)
Europe/Middle East/Africa
Major European equity indices closed mixed; Italy +0.5%, UK
+0.1%, France -0.1%, Germany -0.1%, and Spain -0.2%.
Most 10yr European govt bonds closed higher except for Spain
flat; UK -3bps, Italy -2bps, and France/Germany -1bp.
iTraxx-Europe closed flat/46bps and iTraxx-Xover
+1bps/233bps.
Brent crude closed -2.3%/$69.04 per barrel.
United Kingdom-based electric vehicle (EV) startup Arrival has
collaborated with Microsoft to co-develop digital fleet and vehicle
capabilities for the automotive industry. Microsoft Azure, a
cloud-based solution, will be employed to offer advanced uses of
telemetry, and vehicle and fleet data management across vehicle
fleets. The open data platform will use Azure and machine learning
to extract insights from the data as well as edge computing to
reduce vehicle-to-cloud data flow. (IHS Markit Automotive
Mobility's Surabhi Rajpal)
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), part of Siemens Energy,
will expand its offshore blade factory in Hull, England by 41,600
square meters, more than doubling the size of the manufacturing
facilities. The expansion represents an investment of GBP186
million (USD258 million) and is planned to be completed in 2023.
The manufacturing facility will grow to 77,600 square meters and
add 200 additional direct jobs to the approximately 1,000
person-workforce already in place. Manufacturing of next-generation
offshore wind turbine blades will take place at the new facility.
Manufacturing of other offshore wind turbine blade types already in
the SGRE's Hull factory pipeline will continue while the expansion
is constructed. (IHS Markit Upstream Costs and Technology's Kamila
Langklep)
Mondelēz International has announced that it will move its
Dairylea and Philadelphia processed cheese brands to
fully-recyclable packaging in the UK and Ireland. The business said
that it has now moved away from polystyrene into widely recycled
PET plastic for Philadelphia Mini Tubs and Handi Snacks packaging,
removing approximately 487 tons of polystyrene. The UK operations
of the company has also started using recycled plastic (RPET) in
its Dairylea Lunchables packaging as a result of a design
optimization project reducing the virgin plastic needed by 75% or
approximately 276 tons annually. The move is part of the UK
business' Pack Light and Pack Right strategy which supports
Mondelēz International's global goal of achieving 100% recyclable
packaging, reducing its use of virgin plastic in its rigid plastic
packaging by 25% and adding clear recycling labeling information to
support consumers to recycle right by 2025. (IHS Markit Food and
Agricultural Commodities' Jana Sutenko)
Germany's exports increased more strongly in June after a
near-standstill during April-May, whereas import growth slowed
down. The restraining influence of supply-chain bottlenecks on
trade volumes continues but helpful inventories are preventing an
outright decline. (IHS Markit Economist Timo
Klein)
Germany's Federal Statistical Office's external trade data for
June (customs methodology, seasonally and calendar adjusted,
nominal) reveal strengthening export growth of 1.3% month on month
(m/m), alongside slowing import momentum (0.6%). Year-on-year (y/y)
rates based on this adjusted series remain very high at 20.0% and
24.7%, respectively, reflecting still depressed levels a year ago
after the initial shock of the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
The seasonally adjusted trade surplus, which had peaked at
EUR21.3 billion (USD25 billion) in January in the wake of the
initial recovery from the pandemic before declining to EUR12.8
billion by May, rebounded modestly to EUR13.6 billion in June. This
remains below the 2020 monthly average of EUR14.8 billion and the
2019 average of EUR18.9 billion.
June's regional breakdown continues the pattern of annual
export growth to EU countries in recent months, outpacing that of
the non-EU world. This reflects the European Union's recent
economic recovery as COVID-19-virus-related-restrictions are
loosened, and the diminishing momentum of export growth to China
(16.0% y/y in June) and to the United Kingdom (11.0% y/y, down from
May's 46.3%); strong deliveries to the US (39.8%) offset this only
in part. In contrast, annual import growth from countries outside
the EU remained ahead of deliveries from the EU, driven especially
by imports from a strongly recovering US economy (56.0% y/y).
In unadjusted terms, trade and current-account surpluses
rebounded markedly in June compared with May, whereas the
comparison with June 2020 revealed only small increases. The other
components of the current account posted diverging developments
relative to June 2020, as the balances for services and secondary
income deteriorated, whereas the primary income surplus expanded by
an amount that more than offset those declines.
German firm Bayer has announced plans to acquire US biotech
Vividion Therapeutics, which focuses on generating first-in-class
small molecules for targets that were previously considered
undruggable in high-unmet-need indications. Vividion's
chemoproteomics platform can be used to identify previously unknown
binding pockets in well-validated "undruggable" protein targets by
screening chemical probes against the entire human proteome,
resulting in the selection of highly potent and specific targeted
compounds with activities across multiple therapeutic areas.
Vividion's main focus is on oncology and immune disorders, and the
company is currently developing a transcription factor NRF2
antagonist for NRF2-mutated cancers, and NRF2 activators for
inflammatory conditions including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Once the acquisition is completed, Bayer will own full rights to
Vividion's proprietary discovery platform, including its
chemoproteomic screening technology, integrated data portal, and
proprietary chemistry library. Under the agreement, Bayer will pay
an upfront fee of USD1.5 billion, with potential additional
milestone payments of up to USD500 million. The transaction is
expected to complete in the third quarter of this year, subject to
regulatory approvals and closing conditions. (IHS Markit Life
Sciences' Janet
Beal)
Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI)
on 5 August announced that its Serbian subsidiary, Raiffeisen banka
Serbia, has committed to acquire 100% of Crédit Agricole Srbija.
According to RBI's CEO Johann Strobl, the purchase is an "excellent
strategic fit" and will support its "growth ambition in the
market"; the acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals. Upon
completion, RBI plans to merge Crédit Agricole Srbija with
Raiffeisen banka Serbia. Crédit Agricole representatives have
forecast that the disposal will be completed at the end of the
first quarter of 2022. (IHS Markit Banking Risk's Natasha
McSwiggan)
Foreign-owned Crédit Agricole Srbija accounted for over 6% of
total sector agriculture loans in 2020 and for 3.0% of total sector
assets at the end of 2020. According to Crédit Agricole Srbija's
2020 annual report, its capital adequacy ratio was 17.26% while its
non-performing loan ratio was 2.67%, suggesting that its sale was
not a forced event due to underlying pressure on the bank's
sustainability.
Raiffeisen banka Serbia is the third-largest bank in the
sector, with 7.9% of total sector assets at the end of 2020. If
approved, the newly combined entity would have around 11% of total
sector assets, potentially placing Raiffeisen banka Serbia as the
largest bank in the sector, ahead of Komercijalna Banka Beograd and
UniCredit Bank Serbia (with 10.4% and 10.1% of total sector assets,
respectively, at the end of 2020).
The sale follows the disposal of Crédit Agricole's Romanian
unit earlier this year and reflects the French bank's strategy to
dispose of non-strategic entities.
The momentum of improvement seen in Switzerland's labor market
data is waning as the economic recovery's initial positive effect,
enabled by the loosening of COVID-19-virus-related restrictions
since March, is fading. (IHS Markit Economist Timo
Klein)
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)'s data reveal
that Switzerland's seasonally adjusted unemployment declined by
2.3% month on month (m/m) to 138,957 in July. However, the decline
is smaller compared with June (-3.8%), and the previous month's
drop has been curtailed from -4.2% initially. The job market
recovery that began at the beginning of 2021 is continuing but
appears to be losing its momentum.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, which had increased
from 17-year lows of 2.3% in 2019 to an interim peak of 3.5% in May
2020, has nevertheless softened from June's 3.1% to 3.0% in
July.
Among other labor market indicators, seasonally adjusted job
vacancies surprisingly fell by a sizable 7.0% m/m to 53,258 in
July. Although this remains almost twice as high as at its
pandemic-induced nadir of 27,510 in June 2020 and about
one-and-a-half times its pre-pandemic level in late 2019, vacancies
apparently have peaked now.
The data regarding short-time workers (unadjusted for seasonal
variations), which always lag by two months, still reflect
improving conditions. The number of short-time workers declined by
15.4% m/m to 257,000 in May, which is about one-quarter of its peak
level of 1,077,000 in April 2020. Conversely, however, this remains
almost three times as high as its peak level during the recession
of 2009 in the wake of the global financial market crisis, and is
about 65 times larger than the pre-pandemic level of 4,000 in
February 2020.
Volvo Cars has offered an insight into how it expects its
electric vehicle (EV) battery technology to evolve over the next
few years as it moves towards being a fully EV OEM, according to an
Autocar report. Volvo is working on improving and evolving its
existing lithium-ion battery technology as a first step. The nickel
content of the cathode is being raised and the company is also
reducing the reliance on cobalt, while work is taking place to
improve the anode (the graphite-based negative electrode) by adding
silicon to improve energy density. Volvo is looking for these
improvements to combine for the launch of its second-generation
battery in 2024, which should offer an energy density significantly
above 700Wh per liter. The next stage will be to will bring more
new materials that will end with pure-lithium anodes - which have
proved very difficult to use so far as they lead to a build-up of
excess material on the anode, which can short the cell completely.
If this can be solved, this ultimate evolution of lithium-ion cell
technology could offer up to 1,000Wh per liter of energy density,
near the projected density of the next-generation solid state
batteries, which are seen as eventually offering a step change in
energy density and cost. (IHS Markit AutoIntelligence's Tim
Urquhart)
According to preliminary data from Saudi Arabia's General
Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), real GDP rose by 1.5% year on
year (y/y), with the oil sector's decline of -7.0% y/y still
dampening the economy, while the non-oil sector saw growth surging
by 10.1% y/y. (IHS Markit Economist Ralf
Wiegert)
The low base effect of the second quarter 2020, when the
pandemic had fully hit the Saudi economy, played a key role for the
high increase of non-oil GDP.
Compared with the first quarter, seasonally adjusted GDP edged
by 1.1%, with oil being the driving force here as related
activities grew by 2.5%, while the non-oil sector increased by
1.3%. Government activities, which are separated out from oil and
non-oil GDP, saw a 2.6% decline quarter on quarter. More details on
GDP, including a breakdown in demand-side components and sectoral
drivers, will be published on 13 September, according to
GASTAT.
Asia-Pacific
Major APAC equity markets closed mixed; Mainland China +1.1%,
Hong Kong +0.4%, India +0.2%, Australia flat, and South Korea
-0.3%.
Mainland China's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1.0% year
on year (y/y) in July, down by 0.1 percentage point from the June
reading, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Month-on-month (m/m) CPI inflation came in at 0.3%, ending the four
consecutive months of month-on-month deflation from March to June.
(IHS Markit Economist Lei Yi)
The moderation in headline CPI inflation was again driven by
falling food prices, for which the deflation widened to 3.7% y/y in
July from 1.7% y/y in the previous month. Notably, pork prices
plunged by 43.5% y/y in July, posting an even larger decline than
June by 7.0 percentage points. Nevertheless, it is worth noting
that the government's move to purchase pork for state reserves in
July has made some progress in stabilizing pork prices, as the
month-on-month deflation in pork prices narrowed by 11.7 percentage
points to 1.9% m/m, after reporting double-digit declines for four
consecutive months.
The improvement in services prices to some extent helped offset
the drag on CPI inflation from plunging pork prices. A relatively
well-contained pandemic situation, together with the proliferating
vaccination rate, supported the recovery in travel demand through
most of July until the most recent outbreak in Jiangsu - which has
since spread to other provinces - surfaced. That said, impact of
the outbreak has yet to be reflected in the data, as services
prices increased by 1.6% y/y and 0.6% m/m in July, the highest
year-on-year and month-on-month increases since August 2019 and
January 2020, respectively. Excluding the volatile food and energy
components, core CPI increased by 1.3% y/y in July, the highest
increase since January 2020.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) ticked up to 9.0% y/y in July,
up by 0.2 percentage point from June and back to the May level.
Month-on-month PPI inflation edged up to 0.5% in July, compared
with 0.3% m/m in the prior month.
The government's move to sell commodity reserves did help to
further tame the commodity price rally in July, as prices of
ferrous and non-ferrous metal smelting and pressing sectors fell by
0.2% m/m and 0.1% m/m, respectively; however, rising crude oil and
coal prices continued to drive month-on-month producer price gains.
Prices in the coal mining and dressing sector increased by 6.6% m/m
in July, up by 1.4 percentage points from June as high temperatures
supported coal demand.
Cumulatively, the CPI and core CPI increased by 0.6% and 0.5%
y/y, respectively, in the first seven months of 2021; year-to-date
PPI inflation reached 5.7% y/y through July, up 0.6 percentage
point from the preceding month.
Tesla has once again dropped the prices of its Model 3 electric
vehicle (EV) in China to give a push to its sales in the country,
reports the China Daily. The price of the Model 3 Standard Range,
after subsidies, has been reduced by CNY15,000 (USD2,315) to
CNY235,900. According to the report, the price of the model has
been dropped for the fourth time from the initial price of
CNY328,000 since its production started at the EV maker's Shanghai
factory. Tesla faces strong competition from local rivals such as
NIO, Xpeng, and Li Auto. Tesla has recently witnessed a slowdown in
sales as it faced a backlash in China amid customers' growing
concerns over the build quality of Tesla models. (IHS Markit
AutoIntelligence's Nitin Budhiraja)
Baidu has launched a new-generation autonomous minibus, named
Apolong II, which will be deployed for commercial services in
Guangzhou's Huangpu district. Compared to the first generation, the
Apolong II has received 155 capability enhancements. Its computing
power has increased threefold to 372 trillion operations per second
(TOPS) and its perception system has been enhanced to include two
40-channel LiDAR sensors. It uses Baidu's vehicle-to-everything
(V2X) and 5G remote driving service, complete with dual redundancy
to ensure safety and reliability. Inside the cabin, an intelligent
55-inch transparent window display, jointly developed by Baidu and
BOE Technology, has been installed. The Apolong II, which is a
multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), is highly configurable and can be
customized for public transport, mobile policing, healthcare
providers and other commercial industry uses. (IHS Markit
Automotive Mobility's Surabhi Rajpal)
The Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI) fund has
joined the consortium that Edison Motors formed with Keystone
Private Equity and two other financial investors to buy debt-laden
SsangYong at an upcoming auction, reports the Yonhap News Agency.
"We decided to join the consortium as we agree with Edison Motors
Chairman Kang Young-kwon's vision to transform SsangYong into an
electric vehicle-focused carmaker in line with changes in the
automobile market," said KCGI CEO Kang Sung-boo. SsangYong
executives and employees must not stage any strikes and must fully
co-operate in improving production efficiency until the company
turns around, according to the Edison chairman, who added Edison is
the right company to revive SsangYong as it has expertise in
producing electric commercial vehicles. (IHS Markit
AutoIntelligence's Jamal Amir)
South Korean car-sharing platform Green Car says it plans to
deploy advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in its entire
fleet of cars by the end of 2022, reports The Korea Herald.
Currently, about 85% of Green Car's vehicles are equipped with
standard ADAS functions such as autonomous emergency braking, smart
cruise control, and lane-departure warning. The company also
announced plans to change its fleet of cars to electric vehicles
(EVs) by 2030. (IHS Markit Automotive Mobility's Surabhi
Rajpal)
Posted 09 August 2021 by Ana Moreno, Director, Product Development, IHS Markit and
Chris Fenske, Head of Fixed Income Research, Americas
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