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  Bloomberg Nintendo Co.’s shares jumped as much as 2.9 percent in Tokyo, reversing losses, as investors bet that the company’s lower-than-anticipated operating profit forecast will be raised when more people buy games for the new Switch hybrid console. Operating profit for the fiscal year through March 2018 will be $584 million, the Kyoto-based company said, which was short of ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump won a court ruling making it easier for him to rescind the Clean Power Plan, his predecessor’s program for weaning American power producers off of coal and other fossil fuels. The US Court of Appeals in Washington put a 26-state lawsuit challenging the plan on hold for 60 days without deciding whether the initiative is ...

  Bloomberg The Spanish economy showed signs of renewed momentum in the first quarter with growth accelerating faster than expected. Output grew 0.8 percent in the three months through March, the National Statistics Office said in a preliminary report. That compares with 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter and beats the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists predicting ...

  Bloomberg IBM’s compensation plan for top executives drew record shareholder opposition after the board boosted Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty’s pay package over 60 percent last year. About 46 percent of the votes cast at the April 25 annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, went against the board’s pay plan for top bosses, according to a regulatory filing. That’s IBM’s ...

  Bloomberg Anthem Inc. failed to overturn a court ruling that blocked its planned takeover of rival Cigna Corp., capping a nearly two-year battle to complete a combination of two of the biggest health insurers in the US. The federal appeals panel in Washington upheld a lower court ruling by a 2-1 vote. The court rejected Anthem’s key argument, that ...

  Bloomberg Novo Nordisk A/S has agreed to settle a US probe of its marketing of diabetes drugs that allegedly included disguising salespeople as medical educators and paying kickbacks to persuade doctors to prescribe its medicines. The allegations were disclosed when a whistle-blower lawsuit was unsealed by a judge. The US Justice Department investigation, which began in 2011, focused on ...

  Bloomberg Almost a decade after the global financial crisis, the fate of another $2 billion from the wreckage of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is about to be determined. The failed New York investment bank is seeking to recoup the cash from one of its old derivatives trading partners, Citigroup Inc. In a trial that started this week in Manhattan ...

  Bloomberg Nokia Oyj reported first-quarter sales that topped analysts’ estimates as a slump in wireless-network demand began to ease and the company reaped more revenue for its patents. Revenue fell 4 percent to 5.39 billion euros ($5.9 billion), the Finnish network-equipment maker said on Thursday. Analysts predicted 5.28 billion euros, the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Earnings of ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s economic growth accelerated in Q1 as a recovery in exports supported investment. Construction investment expanded, while consumption growth remained subdued. Gross domestic product expanded 0.9 percent in first quarter from previous 3 months, when it rose 0.5%, Bank of Korea said. The median estimate of economists surveyed by economists was for 0.8% growth. From a year ...

  Bloomberg Didi Chuxing may be going up against its own patron, Tencent Holdings Ltd., by picking a rival side in China’s cut-throat bike-rental industry. China’s largest ride-hailing service said on Thursday it has integrated Ofo’s service into its own mobile app, granting the startup access to some 400 million users across 400 Chinese cities that use Didi to summon ...