Bloomberg Tesla Inc is considering cutting the price of its China-built Model 3 sedans by 20% or more next year, people familiar with the plans said, betting the move will lure buyers as the world’s biggest electric-vehicle market slows. Tesla aims to bring down costs by using more local components, allowing it to import fewer parts and avoid tariffs, the ...

Bloomberg Another Google employee added her name to a list of workers who say they were fired for legally advocating for labour rights inside the company. Kathryn Spiers, 21, said she was fired December 13 after she developed a notification that told colleagues they had the right to participate in labour organising when they visited the website of IRI Consultants, ...

Emmanuel Macron is the first French president in a decade who isn’t a baby boomer, and it shows. The 41-year-old’s battle to reform France’s high-tax, high-spend economy is often fought in the name of generational equality — largely by tilting the balance away from the elderly in favour of the young. Last year, as a gesture to help young people ...

Germany wants a rapid roll-out of 5G technology to sort out its creaking mobile phone network. Yet a group of German lawmakers wants to ban equipment made by China’s Huawei Technologies Co. The country can’t do both. There is an inevitable trade-off for any nation considering a block on Huawei’s telecoms gear. Sticking to the equipment produced by its big ...

The UK’s election of a right-wing, pro-market government with a thumping majority would certainly seem like a green light to foreign companies wanting to buy London-listed rivals. But the new political climate for takeovers may be hazier than it seems. Boris Johnson’s administration is still only four months old, so it’s hard to know precisely how it would approach a ...

It looks as if after all the talk, all the back-and-forth and all the market swings, the US and China have finally reached the terms of a “phase-one” trade deal. The message from the world’s biggest bond market: Don’t get too excited about what that means for the economic outlook. For the first half of the US trading session, long-term ...

Imagine if Toyota Motor Corp. stopped making Corollas, or Coca-Cola Co. stopped making Diet Coke, or McDonald’s Corp. stopped serving Big Macs. That’s the best way of looking at reports that Boeing Co. is considering halting production of its troubled 737 Max single-aisle jet. Making and servicing commercial airplanes accounts for about 80% of Boeing’s operating income, and the 737 ...

Why is the nation’s financial industry concentrated in just a few very costly cities? The latest actions by the Charles Schwab Corp. suggest there’s less reason than there once was amid the squeeze the industry has been feeling since the Great Recession ended. In Schwab’s case, the discount brokerage firm slashed its fees, said it would buy a main rival ...

As 2019 draws to a close, there’s more than a whiff of banking deregulation in the air. The US has relaxed its lender stress tests and made it easier again for Wall Street to trade using its own funds. In Europe, capital requirements are being softened. The reining in of bank risk after the financial crisis is giving way to ...

Bloomberg US equity futures and European stocks drifted on Wednesday as investors digested a flurry of corporate news amid a lull in trade-war headlines. Bonds were mixed and the pound weakened. Contracts on the three main American equity benchmarks pointed to a directionless open a day after the S&P 500 Index closed just one index point higher at a new ...