Bloomberg Subaru Corp. reported a sales slide in the US, its largest market, and predicted a “big impact” from President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported vehicles following the escalation of a global trade war. Unit sales in the US dropped about 14 percent to 149,800 vehicles in the three months through June 30, the company said in a presentation. ...

Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. blamed a crippling cyber-virus outbreak on a variant of the 2017 WannaCry ransomware, outlining how it shut several plants just as the company ramps up chipmaking for Apple Inc.’s next iPhones. Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei said full operations have resumed and that the malware would reduce revenue this quarter by no more than ...

Bloomberg One of China’s largest appliance makers is preparing for the impact of US trade tariffs as it seeks to expand its international footprint. About 5 percent of products sold in the US by GE Appliances — a unit of Qingdao Haier Co. — are imported from China and face tariffs now or will get hit by those being proposed ...

Bloomberg Japan is considering implementing daylight savings time in 2019 and 2020 to cope with the intense summer heat, after soaring temperatures this year cast doubt over the ability of the country to safely host the 2020 Olympics, the Sankei newspaper reported. The government and ruling parties are seeking to pass a bill this autumn, according to the report, which ...

Koreans have a saying that helps explain the recent upbeat exchanges between Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang: “Say pretty things to hear pretty things.” Beyond the Trump White House, there remains much skepticism that North Korea will ever give up its nuclear weapons. Recent leaks about North Korea’s continuing efforts to build its nuclear and missile arsenal underline this concern that ...

One of the chief criticisms of the Federal Reserve’s strategy of prolonged low interest rates was that it punished savers. But now that Fed is generally raising rates, the rewards don’t appear to be going to them. Instead, I calculate that as much as 83 percent of the gains are going to the banks, with the largest ones sucking up ...

Commodity investors are acting like it’s the last days of Rome. News that the Trump administration was planning to increase the tariff rate on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent sent markets into a tailspin, with a Bloomberg Intelligence index of mining companies falling 1.7 percent and every major industrial metal slumping in synchrony. Rio ...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s meeting on Friday with President Emmanuel Macron of France is part of a wider effort to sell her Chequers plan for Brexit to European Union heads of government – and to loosen the grip of Michel Barnier, the unyielding civil servant who’s conducting the negotiations on their behalf. Her campaign is failing. Europe doesn’t like ...

President Donald Trump recently suggested the removal of all tariffs and non-tariff barriers to global trade. Sounds intriguing, but free trade is rare and it’s certainly no utopia. Historically, it’s been largely confined to periods when a major global power promoted the free exchange of products in its own enlightened self-interest. That was true of Great Britain in the 19th ...

HSBC Holdings Plc investors should strap in for a bumpy ride. With costs rising in the first half, the London-based lender may find tamping down expenses a challenge as it moves ahead with its pivot to Asia and a focus on China’s Pearl River Delta. The brewing trade war that has swept across the bank’s largest markets in the region ...