International News

Bloomberg German industrial production registered its biggest annual decline in almost a decade, highlighting the severity of the trade-inflicted manufacturing slump in Europe’s largest economy. Output was down 5.2% in June from the previous year, the most since late 2009, when the country was recovering from the Great Recession that followed the global financial crisis. The numbers are the latest ...

Bloomberg Indian tycoon Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group is in advanced talks to sell some toll road projects to an arm of the country’s sovereign wealth fund for about $350 million, according to reports. The assets that National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is planning to buy are four toll roads that are in operations and two in construction, said the people, ...

Bloomberg Grameenphone, the Bangladesh division of Norway’s Telenor Group, said the local telecom regulator’s move to restrict internet bandwidth for its services was “illegal,” as the company continues to pursue arbitration over an audit demand of nearly $1.5 billion. Bangladesh’s largest mobile company said at a press conference the regulator’s move to restrict internet access was “specially designed to put ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s wealthiest people are starting to feel the pain from nine weeks of protests that have jammed the financial hub’s streets, weighed on economic growth and battered local stock prices. The 10 richest tycoons who derive their fortunes from Hong Kong-listed companies have seen their net worth tumble by $19 billion since July 23, according to the Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg Australia’s trade surplus rocketed to a fresh record in June as iron ore receipts pushed even higher and a falling international oil price lopped a chunk off imports. The windfall swelled to A$8 billion, a third higher than May’s upwardly revised A$6.2 billion, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. Iron ore sales climbed to A$9.5 ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration formally labeled China a currency manipulator, further escalating its trade war with Beijing after the country’s central bank allowed the yuan to fall in retaliation for new US tariffs. While the Treasury Department’s determination is largely symbolic — the potential penalties are less punitive than the steps Trump has already taken against China — it underscores ...

Bloomberg Cybereason Inc., the Boston-based firm that revealed the hacking of at least 10 global telecommunications carriers in June, has raised another $200 million from investor SoftBank Group Corp. as it seeks to grow its market and upgrade its product to keep pace with hackers. “Cybereason plays a leading role in helping companies manage cybersecurity risks and protecting people’s information,” ...

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd. agreed to buy an Indian technology startup funded by Google, scooping up an inventory-management platform and adding to the list of smaller deals the conglomerate has assembled to take on Amazon.com Inc. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s group agreed to buy a controlling stake in Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt, which operates the Fynd platform, according to a statement ...

Bloomberg A British-American trade deal won’t be easily agreed after Brexit because the UK wouldn’t accept the punitive terms on offer, according to former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. “Britain has no leverage. Britain is desperate. Britain has nothing else. It needs an agreement very soon. When you have a desperate partner that’s when you strike the hardest bargain.” President ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bahn AG, Germany’s state-owned railway operator, chose Amsterdam as the potential listing venue of its UK-based transport unit Arriva to tap higher growth in continental Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. Deutsche Bahn recently filed a prospectus with the Dutch regulator for an initial public offering, said the people, who asked not to be identified because ...