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Bloomberg President Donald Trump wants to move ahead with a plan to impose tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as soon as a public-comment period concludes this week, according to six people familiar with the matter. Asked to confirm the plan in an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office, Trump smiled and said it was “not totally ...

Bloomberg Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG wants to increase its operating margins by making production and other processes more efficient as it positions for possible further declines in US drug prices, its chairman said in an interview. Joerg Reinhardt told the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag that his company is taking steps to increase its operating profit margin towards 35 percent ...

Bloomberg The head of the World Trade Organization has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to leave the institution by warning such a move would cause chaos for US companies operating around the world. In an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg, Trump warned that he would withdraw from the WTO “if they don’t shape up.” The president also called the ...

Bloomberg Coca-Cola Co. is making an audacious move into coffee and retail outlets with the $5.1 billion purchase of UK chain Costa, its biggest acquisition in eight years and a push into the fiercely competitive java market. The soft-drinks company swooped in after Whitbread Plc announced a plan in April to spin off the business. The transaction gives Coca-Cola instant ...

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co. is canceling plans to import a new crossover model from a plant in China after President Donald Trump’s tariffs undermined the business case for bringing the vehicle to the US market. Trump’s move to slap China-built autos with an additional 25 percent levy in July undermined the profitability of the Focus Active that Ford planned to ...

Bloomberg The opening of the Elizabeth Line, the 15 billion-pound ($19.5 billion) London railway that will connect Heathrow Airport to Canary Wharf, has been delayed by at least nine months to allow for more safety testing. The start date for the initial phase of service, previously set for December, has been moved to autumn 2019, the line’s builder said. Construction ...

Bloomberg The breadth of wealth inequality in the UK was laid bare in new analysis published on Saturday. While the divide is most pronounced in London, where richer households are now 24 times wealthier than poorer ones, other regions have experienced a similar trend since the global financial crisis, according to the Resolution Foundation. The value of household assets such ...

Bloomberg The European Union should scrap twice-yearly time changes and keep its clocks on what is currently summertime, said the bloc’s executive arm. On August 31, the European Commission unveiled the results of a public consultation on the merits of the decades-old practice of capitalising on natural daylight by putting clocks forward by 60 minutes between late March and late ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. and its former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick defeated a lawsuit claiming the company swept illicit business practices under the rug that cost investors billions of dollars. US District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland, California, agreed with Uber’s and Kalanick’s bid to toss the class-action claims by a Texas city’s firefighter pension fund while ...

Bloomberg Salesforce.com Inc. shares fell after the maker of cloud-based software gave a disappointing profit forecast and reported a closely watched sales metric that failed to satisfy Wall Street’s lofty expectations. Profit, excluding certain items, will be as much as 50 cents a share in the current quarter, the San Francisco-based company said. That compared with analysts’ average estimate of ...