Bloomberg ABN Amro Bank NV has apologized for its historic involvement in slavery, after a report revealed the rise of some of the bank’s predecessors were closely linked to the slave trade. The Dutch lender said its predecessor, Hope & Co., played a “pivotal role” in the international slave trade of the 18th century and was actively involved in ...

  Bloomberg Argentina’s central bank raised interest rates for the fourth time this year after inflation data published earlier in the day showed prices increasing at the fastest monthly pace in 20 years. The monetary authority increased its benchmark Leliq rate by 250 basis points to 47%, according to a statement. The rate hike also boosts the effective annual rate, ...

  Bloomberg Wall Street’s dealmaking boom came to an abrupt halt amid the war in Ukraine and a global shift towards rising interest rates, leaving big banks set to post a quarterly slump in investment banking revenue. The record merger-and-acquisition pipelines bank executives touted at the start of 2022 are still on the horizon, but have been put on the ...

Bloomberg Facebook’s interest in podcasts is fading, barely a year after it began. Last April, during a hot market for audio, Facebook launched Live Audio Rooms, short-form stories called Soundbites and podcasts for US users. The company signed deals with creators and sponsored one of the industry’s biggest US conferences: Podcast Movement. Facebook product managers even appeared on the long-time ...

  Bloomberg When Toshihiro Mibe took over as Honda Motor Co.’s chief executive officer last year, he did so with a bang, promising to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and phase out gasoline-powered car sales by 2040, becoming Japan’s first automaker to say as much. Now, he’s backing that with numbers. Honda will spend 5 trillion yen ($40 billion) on ...

  Bloomberg As the top-selling model line in the US for 40 years, Ford Motor Co’s F-Series pickups hold special weight in the auto ecosystem. The lineup, led by the F-150, generates more than $40 billion in annual revenue. Only one other US product—Apple Inc.’s iPhone—tops F-Series sales. Given this, Ford’s decision to electrify the F-150 stands as one of ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc is paying a small number of engineers another round of special stock bonuses as part of an unusual push to retain key talent, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The iPhone maker doled out the bonuses in recent days to a select group of employees in its software and hardware engineering departments, said the ...

  HANOI / WAM The Vietnamese Health Ministry has started issuing vaccine passports, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. Vietnam’s vaccine passport follows the standards of World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Union (EU), which are followed by 62 nations. The passport will be available on PC Covid-19 or Digital Health apps. If people don’t have the apps, they ...

  Bloomberg China is set to install a record amount of wind and solar power capacity this year as the country strives to meet climate goals while reducing its reliance on the rest of the world for energy. China will add 140 gigawatts of capacity from the clean energy sources, said Tao Ye, a researcher with the National Development and ...

  Bloomberg Regulators approved a $4.5 billion transmission line that will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City, a key component of the Empire State’s efforts to eliminate carbon from its power grid by 2040. The 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express is expected to be complete in 2025, according to a statement from New York Governor Kathy Hochul. The Public ...