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  Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc expects profit to rise this year as the UK drugmaker prepares to spin off its consumer-health business, its biggest shake-up in more than two decades. Earnings for the pharma and vaccines businesses are expected to rise 12% to 14% in 2022 on an adjusted basis, Glaxo said on Wednesday. The shares rose as much as 1.4% ...

  Bloomberg The trade of molluscan shellfish between the European Union and the US is set to resume following a 10-year break after the two sides resolved regulatory disputes. Sales of mussels, clams, oysters and scallops will resume at the end of this month, the European Commission said after it adopted legislation to that effect. Two EU member states, Spain ...

  Bloomberg AP Moller-Maersk agreed to buy Pilot Freight Services LLC for $1.68 billion, shoring up its road-transport business while signaling an unprecedented boom in container shipping may be starting to fade. The deal announced on Wednesday coincides with a 2022 profit forecast that falls well below analysts’ estimates. Maersk said it expected a strong first half before a “normalisation ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google is being sued by Nordic price comparison provider PriceRunner AB for about $2.4 billion at Stockholm’s patent and market court. The lawsuit follows the conclusion of a legal ruling in the European Union that established Google has breached antitrust laws by manipulating search results in favour of its own comparison-shopping services, PriceRunner said. “This is ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant Inc, a deal that would bolster efforts to protect customers from hacks and breaches. The deliberations may not result in an offer, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Mandiant and Microsoft declined to comment. Mandiant shares ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s labour market suffered a larger-than-expected setback last month after the nation was hit with fresh lockdowns meant to contain the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The country shed 200,100 jobs in January, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa, ending a seven-month streak of gains. Economists in a Bloomberg survey were expecting a drop of 110,000. The unemployment rate rise ...

  Bloomberg Soybean buyers stung by a smaller and slower harvest than expected in Brazil are turning to the US for supply, driving up prices and threatening to worsen food inflation. What was expected to be a record crop in Brazil is now looking far smaller, with lower yields and harvest delays due to adverse weather catching traders and end-users ...

  Bloomberg Italy’s industrial production may have fallen for a second month in January due to rising energy costs and supply shortages, putting economic growth at “serious risk,” employers lobby Confindustria said. Industrial output declined by an estimated 1.3% in January from a month earlier, after a 0.7% drop in December, the group said in a statement. Production rose 1.9% ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. is targeting a date on or near March 8 to unveil a new low-cost iPhone and an updated iPad, according to people with knowledge of the matter, kicking off a potentially record-setting year for product launches. The announcement will mark Apple’s first major event since a new MacBook Pro debuted in October. Like the company’s other ...

  Bloomberg US productivity surged last quarter by the most in more than a year, reflecting a sharp acceleration in economic output, while labour costs growth cooled. Fourth-quarter nonfarm business employee output per hour increased at a 6.6% annual rate from the previous three months, the largest advance since the second quarter of 2020, according to Labour Department figures. In ...