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Bloomberg Didi Chuxing said it will suspend a carpool service and has removed two executives after a second female customer in three months was allegedly killed by a driver in China. The ride-hailing app company said in an emailed statement on Sunday that it will halt its Hitch service starting on Monday and reevaluate the carpool operation’s business model. Didi ...

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s unit in Japan expects a fledgling business selling nutritional drinks and supplements to aging consumers to grow into a nearly $1 billion business within a decade as the food giant becomes the latest to employ genetics to market food. The world’s biggest food company has seen increasing demand for a Japanese subscription program for nutrition that can ...

Bloomberg From Mercedes-Benz AG to Unilever, companies in India are finding power to pass on higher costs to consumers, a sign that demand in the world’s fastest-growing major economy is well-entrenched. After the twin shocks of a cash ban in 2016 and the chaotic introduction of a consumption tax last year, India’s economic recovery is gaining momentum. Businesses are taking ...

Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd. is headed for a record high after parent GlaxoSmithKline Plc was said to have requested bids by mid-September for its Indian consumer-health unit. Shares of the Indian unit rose as much as 8.3 percent, the biggest intraday advance since February 14, and were set for a record close in Mumbai. Glaxo has sent out an ...

Bloomberg Australia banned China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from supplying next-generation wireless equipment to the nation’s telecom operators, the latest blow in an escalating global battle over network security. The government gave carriers new security guidance for fifth-generation mobile technology and warned that using government-linked suppliers would risk breaching their obligations. The nature of 5G technology means security ...

Bloomberg A weakening Hurricane Lane has brought record rainfall to Hawaii, where flooding threatens $8 billion worth of homes. In 12 hours, 16.48 inches of rain fell on the Big Island of Hawaii, and daily records were set at Hilo International Airport on Wednesday and on Thursday, the National Weather Service said. Roads on the Big Island have been washed ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc. has asked its cosmetics suppliers to consider sourcing their goods in countries outside of China, one of the first signs that the world’s largest retailer hopes to dilute the impact of the Trump administration’s looming tariffs. A “large amount” of items in the cosmetics category fall under the most-recent proposed levies on Chinese goods, according to an ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk scrapped his plan to take Tesla Inc. private, a remarkable reversal more than two weeks after blindsiding employees and investors with the idea in a bombshell tweet. In a blog post, Tesla’s chairman, CEO and largest shareholder said he had met with the board and “let them know that I believe the better path is for Tesla ...

Bloomberg The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said the UK risks trade disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit because it is “very unlikely” to have agreed tariffs and quotas with the other WTO members in time. “The moment that other countries begin to sense an opportunity to increase their market share or increase a quota here ...

Bloomberg Papa John’s International Inc. jumped after a report the struggling pizza chain has hired Bank of America Corp. and Lazard Ltd. to help find ways to stabilise its operations. The company, which saw sales sink last month after founder John Schnatter resigned as chairman over the use of a racial slur, rose as much as 5.5 percent following the ...