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Bloomberg European Union (EU) President Donald Tusk called on Donald Trump to reform the world order rather than bring it down, warning that trade wars can lead to “hot conflicts.” Tusk issued his appeal in opening remarks to an annual EU-China summit on Monday, as he made an explicit link between the European delegation visiting Beijing and the US president’s ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. may nearly double the number of cars it’s selling in Russia after a mobile-phone retailer backed by billionaire Alisher Usmanov unexpectedly added electric vehicles to the line of gadgets it offers. Svyaznoy, co-owned by Usmanov’s wireless carrier MegaFon PJSC, said it received orders for 236 vehicles in June, the first month it started sales jointly with importer ...

Bloomberg Papa John’s International Inc.’s board put further distance between the pizza chain and its outspoken founder John Schnatter for using a racial slur, agreeing to review all ties to him, evict him from the headquarters, and remove him from all marketing materials. A special committee of independent directors ordered the termination of a so-called founder’s agreement that designated Schnatter ...

Bloomberg Airbnb Inc. was warned by the European Union (EU) to expect a regulatory clampdown unless its terms and conditions and the way it presents holiday-home prices comply with EU standards by the end of August. The online platform must present pricing information in a more transparent way and make the distinction between private and professional hosts clearer to consumers, ...

Bloomberg It may be starting to sound like a broken record for emerging markets, with the twists and turns of US-China trade tensions likely to dominate investor concerns this week. That’s not to say Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s two-day Congressional testimony and even the outcome of Monday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Finland won’t have a ...

Bloomberg Fortis Healthcare Ltd.’s board of directors chose IHH Healthcare Bhd. to take control of India’s second-largest hospital chain, ending a months-long takeover battle as the company wrestles with investigations over financial irregularities. Malaysia-based IHH’s offer would see $583 million invested directly in the company through a preferential allotment of shares at 170 rupees a share, according to a statement ...

Bloomberg China has been gobbling up the world’s soybeans at breakneck speed over the past decade. But as the trade spat with the US escalates, its imports of the oilseed are set to decline for the first time in 15 years. China will bring in 95 million metric tonnes of soybeans in the 2018-2019 season, the US Department of Agriculture ...

Bloomberg Bexcellent Group Holdings Ltd., whose top tutor earns more than HK$40 million ($5.1 million) a year, surged as much as 34 percent on the first day of trading in Hong Kong. The provider of tutoring services to Hong Kong secondary school students was so popular that individual investors placed orders for about 289 times the stock initially available to ...

Bloomberg China’s monthly trade surplus with the US rose to a record in June and exports to the nation also soared, underlining the cause of an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The trade surplus with the US was $28.97 billion, the highest in any month in data back to 1999. Exports climbed to $42.62 billion, also ...

Bloomberg MCH Group AG, the owner of Art Basel, is launching a new art fair in Singapore starting next year to take advantage of the growing wealth in Asia, which is minting millionaires faster than any other region in the world. The new expo, called ART SG, will hold its inaugural event in November 2019 with about 80 galleries from ...