International News

  Bloomberg Canada plans to formally join Mexico in calling for an arbitration panel to resolve a dispute with the US over how to interpret rules governing the origin of vehicle parts. The two countries expect to request in the first days of January the creation of a tribunal of experts to rule on the matter as allowed under the ...

  Bloomberg Rishi Sunak announced a billion pounds ($1.3 billion) of support for UK hospitality businesses struggling with slumping demand triggered by a record wave of Covid-19 infections, as he declined to rule out further curbs to tackle the fast-spreading omicron variant. Restaurants and other eligible hospitality and leisure businesses will be able to claim cash grants worth up to ...

  Bloomberg Oracle Corp agreed to acquire medical-records systems provider Cerner Corp for about $28.3 billion, a deal that would add a broad customer base in health care industry to bolster software maker’s cloud-computing and database businesses. The all-cash transaction, Oracle’s biggest-ever deal, will see Oracle pay $95 a share, the companies announced Monday in a statement. The price represents ...

  Bloomberg Intel Corp’s global push to increase capacity will include adding facilities in France and Italy, as well as putting a major production site in Germany. France will be home to a research and design center, and Italy will be the location of a test and assembly factory, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because ...

  Bloomberg Just as firms wrestle with a global supply chain crisis and fresh pandemic restrictions, companies in the UK and European Union face another looming headache: More post-Brexit red tape. From January 1, companies importing goods into Britain from the EU will be required to make full customs declarations. Food products will also have be pre-registered on an IT ...

  Bloomberg The unemployment rate fell in nearly every US state last month, including in eight states where it dropped to a record low. Nebraska, with a jobless rate of 1.8%, had the lowest in the country, followed closely by Utah at 2.1%, according to Labour Department data. Arkansas, Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin also posted record lows. ...

  Bloomberg The low availability of nuclear plants in France is causing power prices to soar, crushing the competitiveness of the nation’s companies, according to the Uniden trade group that represents energy-intensive industries. Electricite de France SA this week announced new or extended outages at four of the nation’s 56 nuclear reactors during winter, when demand peaks. Available nuclear capacity ...

  Bloomberg Germany’s federal government plans to sell the second-highest amount of debt on record next year, as aggressive spending to offset the impact of coronavirus pandemic continues. Debt issuance will shrink to about 410 billion euros ($464 billion) in 2022, compared with a record of around 480 billion euros this year, according to the German finance agency’s issuance plan. ...

  Bloomberg Denmark now sees its economic growth matching the fastest pace in almost three decades, predicting an outbreak of the new virus variant won’t derail a boom in the Nordic nation. Gross domestic product will probably expand by 3.9% this year, up from a previous forecast of 3.8%, the finance ministry said in a statement. The forecast, that would ...

  Bloomberg Argentina is putting a ceiling on exports of corn and wheat in a fresh bid by the leftist government to quell food inflation at home. The government will first decide how much of the grains are needed in Argentina, and then proceed to stop exporters from registering shipments that’d jeopardise those domestic supplies, according to a resolution published ...