Bloomberg China’s car sales fell for a third straight month as an intensifying trade dispute with the US and slowing economic growth are threatening to end the vehicle market’s almost three-decade expansion. Retail sales of cars, SUVs and multipurpose vehicles declined 7.4 percent to 1.76 million units in August, the China Passenger Car Association said in a statement. That compares ...

Bloomberg Alibaba is heralding the end of the Jack Ma era. A former English teacher who helped found Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. two decades ago, Ma outlined plans to hand the executive chairman role to Daniel Zhang, a finance veteran who’s presided over an ambitious expansion and won over investors in three years as chief executive officer. Ma will officially ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. will kick off a blitz of new products this week, ending a year of minor updates and setting the technology giant up for a potentially strong holiday quarter. Through the rest of 2018, the world’s most valuable public company will launch three new iPhones, revamped iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens, a new entry-level laptop with ...

Bloomberg Sky Plc is backing a push by BT Group Plc to move more Britons onto faster internet services, in a boost to the former monopoly. Sky, which resells internet services from BT’s network unit Openreach, has a new agreement to encourage more of its UK customers to take up higher-speed fiber-based connections after Openreach introduced discounts for wholesale customers ...

Bloomberg Economists say the country is close to full employment, but pay gains for American workers have been flat since 2015. Even last week’s upward blip in wage growth could be wiped out by inflation. Yet Americans haven’t been this optimistic about future pay raises since the century began, according to the Conference Board’s monthly surveys. Perhaps the 3.9 percent ...

Bloomberg Aston Martin, maker of luxury sports cars for James Bond, is moving ahead with a plan to list shares in London, naming Penny Hughes as chairman to end all-male board representation. The manufacturer will trade on the London Stock Exchange in October, with a free float of at least 25 percent of the issued share capital and Daimler AG ...

Bloomberg Palestinian leaders confirmed they’d been informed by the Trump administration that it plans to shut the Palestinian mission in Washington, condemning the move as proof the US is disbanding international efforts towards a peace deal with Israel. The announcement of the closure, earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal citing unidentified White House officials, was expected to be made ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin got a taste of public anger at his plans to increase the pension age as voters turned on the ruling party in regional elections and hundreds were arrested at protests against the reform. United Russia’s candidates for governor in four regions, mostly in the country’s east, were forced into runoffs after failing to win majorities ...

Bloomberg For President Donald Trump, the nightmare scenario if Democrats win control of the US House would be the death of his legislative agenda, aggressive investigations of his inner circle, and potential impeachment. For Democratic leaders, the vision they’re presenting is far tamer: a limited three-prong agenda of healthcare legislation aimed at cutting costs and drug prices, an infrastructure spending ...

Bloomberg Sweden may face weeks or even months of political gridlock after an inconclusive election result left the biggest Scandinavian economy without a clear candidate to form a government. Neither the Social Democrat-led coalition of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven nor the opposition Alliance bloc won enough votes to form majority governments, as a nationalist group that has talked of dragging ...