Australia Out In The Coal, Berkshire's Historic Loss and Uber Eats Out

The Morning Run Crew | Jeffrey Halley

25-Feb-19 07:30

Australia Out In The Coal, Berkshire's Historic Loss and Uber Eats Out

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The Morning Run crew brings you their take on today's business headlines:

00:09 - Breaking news from the Wall Street Journal, Trump said he would delay an increase in tariffs on Chinese goods.

00:59 - Berkshire reported a net loss of USD 25.4 billion in the 4th quarter one of the largest quarterly losses in its history.

04:23 - China had imposed an import ban on Australian coal which sent the Australian dollar tumbling. We speak to Jeffrey Halley to make sense of this.

08:12 - Uber Eats is exiting their India operations after less than two years of operation in India’s competitive food-delivery landscape. Uber Eats is now in talks to sell their operations to rival Swiggy.

Presented by: Joyce Goh, Julian Ng, Sharidz Abdullah

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Categories: Business Analysis

Tags: Trump, US-China trade war, tariffs, Berkshire Hathaway, Australia, coal, China, Uber, Uber Eats, India,

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