BMW Targets 8,000 Job Cuts With New Voluntary Severance Package

Houthis Signal Red Sea Shipping Tolls In Mirror Image Of Iran's Hormuz Plan Houthis have entered the chat... Already multiple Saudi vessels have been targeted in the Red Sea region, forcing a number of tankers to U-turn, and now Yemen's Houthis are seeking to introduce their own 'toll system' for the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. "Yemen's information minister said intelligence confirmed IRGC advisers were directly involved in designing a Houthi-enforced toll system for the Bab el-Mandeb, mirroring Iran's contested claim to charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz," European media reports Wednesday. Source: Winward "The...

Carvana Crashes After Earnings Outlook Disappoints Wall Street Carvana shares plunged in premarket trading after the online used-car retailer issued full-year earnings guidance that may fall short of Wall Street expectations, as vehicle sales growth slowed and profit per car declined. The outlook raises questions about whether Carvana's rapid expansion can justify its high stock valuation. Carvana reported a record second-quarter adjusted EBITDA of $769 million, narrowly beating the $766.2 million consensus estimate among analysts tracked by Bloomberg, as vehicle sales rose 38% to more than 197,300. Still, sales growth slowed...

China To Import Record Amount Of US Ethane As Iran War Chokes Off Naphtha, LPG Supplies One year ago, in the immediate aftermath of Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, there was a flurry of discussion over who is more reliant on whom: the US on Chinese rare earth materials, or China on US ethane output (see "Chinese Plastics Factories Face Mass Closure As US Ethane Supply Evaporates" and "Who Blinks First? China May Exempt Tariffs On US Ethane & Other Goods"). Following the detente in the US-China trade war, that discussion was...