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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) (0763.HK) said it expects to make a profit in the third quarter after recording its worst-ever first-half net loss on Thursday, the result of a U.S. supplier ban that forced the telecoms gear maker to halt operations for three months. ZTE, the world’s fourth-largest telecommunications equipment maker by market share, was crippled in April when the United States imposed the seven-year ban, saying ZTE broke an agreement to discipline executives who conspired to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea.
The company expects to post a net profit of between 24.2 million yuan ($3.54 million) and 1.0 billion yuan ($146.40 million) in the three months to September 30, it said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange, That compares to a net profit of 1.6 billion yuan a year earlier and a net loss of 7.8 billion yuan in the first half of 2018, The company’s new executives told shareholders on Tuesday that production had returned to silver flower cufflinks normal and orders are in line with those of July and August last year..
The ban, which became a source of friction in Sino-U.S. trade talks, was lifted in July after ZTE paid $1.4 billion in penalties and agreed to radical management change, allowing the firm to resume business. The company’s first-half loss was in line with the 7 billion to 9 billion yuan estimate given last month. Due to that loss, ZTE still expects a net loss of 6.8-7.8 billion yuan for the first nine months of this year despite its forecast of a net profit in the July to September quarter, it said in the exchange filing.
Operating revenue in the first half of this year fell 27.0 percent to 39 billion yuan, The Shenzhen-based firm and cross-town Huawei have come under increasing pressure in Western markets as global trade tensions increase and politicians cite possible links to China’s government as a security risk, Australia’s government last week said it would ban Chinese firms that it deems likely to be subject to government direction from supplying the country’s fifth generation (5G) telecommunications silver flower cufflinks network on security grounds..
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s takeover regulator could take the rare step of intervening in the battle between Comcast and Twenty-First Century Fox for Sky next month by staging an auction for the broadcaster to bring the drawn-out bidding war to an end. The Takeover Panel has the power to instigate a formal auction process for London-listed Sky SKYB.L to help resolve its future if two competing bids that have not been declared final remain on the table for the company on Sept. 22, according to Britain’s takeover code.
There have only been three British silver flower cufflinks takeover situations since 2007 that have involved auctions handled by the regulator, including the 6.2 billion-pound ($8.1 billion) sale of Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus to India’s Tata Steel (TISC.NS), according to analysis by Reuters, A fourth battle ended just before an auction was due to start when Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) abandoned its takeover attempt of gas explorer Cove Energy in 2012, allowing Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production to clinch a $1.9 billion deal, That marked the last time the Panel invoked the auction procedure..
Cable giant Comcast (CMCSA.O) currently leads Rupert Murdoch’s Fox (FOXA.O) in the fight for Sky with a 14.75 pound a share offer last month that values the broadcaster at 25.9 billion pounds and has been recommended by the pay-television group’s independent directors. That trumped the 14 pound a share offer made by Fox earlier in July for the 61 percent of Sky it does not already own, and is 37 percent above Fox’s original 10.75 pound a share bid. Sky’s shares currently trade at 15.44 pounds.
Under the current timetable for a deal, which can be changed by the Panel, Fox and Comcast are free to lift their bids at any point up silver flower cufflinks until the Sept, 22 deadline, If neither suitor has admitted defeat by then, the regulator can step in and start an auction, The Panel did not comment, The aim of an auction is to bring a protracted bidding war to a close by giving the suitors an opportunity to submit revised offers in an orderly process managed by the Panel, which remains neutral, But it can also serve to drive up the price that the successful suitor ultimately pays..