Bloomberg South Africa’s government seized control of North West province as a way to force out Premier Supra Mahumapelo from his post after weeks of violent protests in the region. The move may help President Cyril Ramaphosa to strengthen his grip over the ruling African National Congress after he won control of the still divided party in a tight election ...

Bloomberg The US and China signalled a desire to avoid a costly trade war after President Donald Trump offered a lifeline to beleaguered telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp. and China’s Xi Jinping dispatched his top economic adviser to Washington. Vice Premier Liu He — who is Xi’s top aide for economic matters — was expected to travel on Tuesday to ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. has set up a new wholly owned company in Shanghai, moving a step closer to producing its electric vehicles in China and establishing its first gigafactory outside US shores. Tesla’s Hong Kong division registered the new company with a capital of $15.8 million, the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System said on its website. The business scope ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. is trying again to chip away at Apple Inc.’s long-ago $1 billion victory in their legal fight over smartphone technology — by disassembling the iPhone. The companies on Monday were expected to replay a battle that started in 2011. The retrial before before US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, isn’t about whether the ...

Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s quarterly profit missed estimates after top customer Apple Inc. sold barely enough of its iPhone X to meet Wall Street’s tempered expectations. The sole manufacturer of Apple’s flagship device reported net income of NT$24.1 billion ($810 million) in the three months ended March, compared with the average estimate of NT$27.9 billion. It had previously ...

Bloomberg India’s palm oil imports probably dropped in April as higher taxes on shipments curbed demand in the world’s biggest buyer. Purchases fell about 1.7 percent to 740,000 metric tons from a year earlier, according to the median of four estimates in a Bloomberg survey of processors, brokers and analysts. Total vegetable oil imports decreased 9.7 percent to 1.21 million ...

Bloomberg India state-run refiners resumed raising retail gasoline and diesel prices after a three-week hiatus that coincided with the run up to elections in a southern state. Indian Oil Corp., the nation’s biggest fuel maker and de facto price-setter for other state-run refiners, increased prices. That’s the first change since April 24, data on the company’s website showed, and the ...

Bloomberg India’s new bankruptcy law is being bogged down by bitter court room disputes that include the likes of ArcelorMittal and the Tata Group — jeopardising the law’s promise of time-bound resolution in a country famous for its sluggish legal system. None of the 12 large debtor companies that the central bank forced into bankruptcy court in June have been ...

Bloomberg Xerox Corp. called off a $6.1 billion takeover by Fujifilm Holdings Corp. and parted ways with its chief executive officer, handing a major victory to activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason. In an agreement with the two investors, which together own about 13 percent of Xerox, the US office equipment supplier said CEO Jeff Jacobson will step down ...

Bloomberg More than 100 IBM executives will descend on Capitol Hill this week with a simple message for policy makers: don’t bring Europe’s new privacy regulations to the US. The Armonk, New York-based technology giant is making a sweeping new European privacy standard a top talking point in its conversations with lawmakers during the company’s annual trip to Congress. The ...