International News

Bloomberg Indonesia is preparing to auction additional airwaves to telecom carriers to allow them offer 5G services and will ensure a level-playing field to wireless equipment suppliers including Huawei Technologies Co. The government is taking steps to guarantee adequate spectrum will be available for mobile-phone carriers before deciding on a schedule for the sale, Communications Minister Johnny G Plate said ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc’s big push into logistics is getting scrutiny from European Union (EU) antitrust regulators who asked the US to share an online merchant’s complaint against the retail giant, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and two people familiar with the matter. The online merchant accused Amazon of rewarding those who pay for the company’s warehousing, packing and delivery ...

Bloomberg Reynolds Consumer Products Inc, the maker of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil and Hefty trash bags, has filed for a US initial public offering. The company has hired Credit Suisse Group AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc for the share sale. The $100 million registration amount listed on the documents is a placeholder used to calculate ...

Bloomberg With all the focus on getting the positioning right for next month’s UK election, investors may be overlooking bigger threats beyond. Even as optimism grows that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s party will win the vote and see through a market-friendly Brexit deal, a floundering economy and the prospect of fraught trade talks with the European Union (EU) are unnerving ...

Bloomberg The board that oversees retirement savings for US government employees will allow one of its funds to invest in an international index that includes Chinese companies, despite the threat of legislation from lawmakers who say the investments will undermine national security and contribute to China’s economic and corporate growth. The Federal Thrift Retirement Investment Board finalised the decision in ...

Bloomberg The tremors from Germany’s downturn are reverberating in Italy — particularly in the country’s industrial heartland. Companies big and small in the prosperous northern regions have been hit by declining sales as Europe’s largest economy buckles under a manufacturing slump. That’s a problem for Italy’s government, desperate to boost its own economic growth to help it get control of ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has given notice that it will file a lawsuit challenging the Defense Department’s decision to award Microsoft Corp a cloud computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade. The e-commerce giant plans to lodge its complaint against the contract in the US Court of Federal Claims, Seattle-based Amazon confirmed. The company’s challenge was ...

Bloomberg Orange SA, France’s dominant phone company, is starting preparations for a potential initial public offering of its Africa and Middle East unit, people familiar with the matter said. The firm has been interviewing advisers for the planned share sale, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Orange is weighing potential listing ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming under pressure from her own party to impose an outright ban on Chinese equipment supplier Huawei Technologies Co from the country’s 5G network. The demand is part of a motion signed by 500 of her fellow Christian Democrats to be presented at the party conference next week, according to a copy obtained by ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc has been on the wrong side of investor sentiment since its debut on the public market this year, and Barclays analyst Ross Sandler said the ride-hailing company could be “one major announcement” away from a change in the narrative. Shares of the company came under significant pressure around the expiry of its IPO lockup period — ...