International News

Bloomberg For all the palpitations that the trade war between the US and China will knock out their economies, it is Europe that increasingly looks like the biggest threat to global growth. Deteriorating demand is evident across the 19-nation euro area as it finds itself squeezed between international and domestic drags. That leaves its expansion at risk of barely topping ...

Bloomberg European Union negotiators agreed on new natural-gas rules that preserve a concession to Germany over its controversial plan to import more of the fuel from Russia. Representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament approved a revision to gas-market legislation while scaling back hurdles for the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The deal in Strasbourg, France, keeps intact a ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration said the US president still wants to meet China’s Xi Jinping in an effort to end the trade war, a sign of optimism as negotiators from the world’s two-biggest economies start their latest round of talks this week. “He wants to meet with President Xi very soon,” White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News. ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. took an $83 million charge related to the compensation of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn as the Japanese automaker reeling from the shock arrest of the iconic executive warned of its lowest profit in six years. Operating profit will be 450 billion yen ($4.1 billion) this fiscal year, Nissan said on Tuesday. That’s down from Nissan’s previous ...

Bloomberg Malaysia is taking steps to rid its new financial district of the 1MDB taint. The Exchange TRX precinct has brought in fresh funds of $527 million in what Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said is a sign of faith in the country’s ability to put the past behind. Kuala Lumpur is also set to see its iconic Petronas Twin ...

Bloomberg Sony Corp. promoted a marketing executive to become the new chief of its PlayStation business, the second management shuffle in less than two years at one of the company’s most important divisions. Jim Ryan will take over as president of Sony Interactive Entertainment effective April 1 after previously leading the division’s sales and marketing teams, the Tokyo-based company said ...

Bloomberg Tea exports from India, the world’s second-biggest producer, may shrivel this year as a bumper crop in Kenya raises the risk of oversupply. Shipments could drop by 8 million to 10 million kilograms in the year through March from a record of 256.57 million in 2017-18 as Kenya’s output is likely to rise by as much as 60 million ...

Bloomberg Zilingo Pte, a Singapore-based online fashion marketplace, raised $226 million to fund an expansion into the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. Investors in the series D financing included Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings Pte, Burda Principal Investments, Sofina and EDBI, the company said on Tuesday without disclosing a valuation. The startup is valued at $970 million, according to people familiar with ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s chicken shortage could worsen this year, driving further gains in poultry stocks, according to CGS-CIMB Sekuritas. The nation’s poultry association projects that the supply of chicks will drop to 3 billion in 2019 from 3.2 billion last year, after the government banned the use of antibiotics in chicken feed, analyst Patricia Gabriela wrote in a report. A shortage ...

Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Legere heads to Capitol Hill this week to defend his proposed takeover of Sprint Corp., as doubts about the deal grow on Wall Street and opponents say it will raise monthly bills. Legere is set to appear Wednesday and Thursday before two House panels about the $26.5 billion tie-up, which would unite ...