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Bloomberg General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer John Flannery is taking the biggest step yet in his plan to revitalise the beleaguered manufacturer, agreeing to merge its century-old locomotive business with Wabtec Corp. in a deal valued at $11.1 billion. GE and its shareholders will own 50.1 percent of the combined company, giving the parent an ongoing stake in the ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the European Parliament on Tuesday on the Cambridge Analytica scandal will be broadcast live on the internet. Zuckerberg agreed to the web feed after talks with Antonio Tajani, the president of the parliament. The proceedings, scheduled for the late afternoon in Brussels, were to take place behind closed doors. “Great news for ...

Bloomberg Fear of missing out may persuade Americans with an eye on buying a home to hurry their decision before it gets more expensive. But while demand shows few signs of teetering, jumps in both property values and borrowing costs will test the market’s durability. Home sales are now hovering near expansion highs, though momentum has been kept in check ...

Bloomberg TPG, the first major US private equity firm to invest in Myanmar after it emerged from military rule, is working on another landmark transaction in what’s become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. It’s pursuing a deal to create Myanmar’s biggest independent owner of telecom towers as mobile-phone usage in the country soars, people with knowledge of the matter ...

Bloomberg Baidu Inc.’s Qi Lu, the former Microsoft Corp. executive hired to oversee virtually every aspect of its business, has stepped down from all active management roles less than two years after joining the Chinese internet search leader. The former group president and chief operating officer becomes the highest-profile executive to exit the company over the past few years. Lu, ...

Bloomberg Koo Bon-moo, the chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate who transformed a local producer of cheap appliance into a global tech and chemical powerhouse over two decades, has died. He was 73. Koo died Sunday at 9:52 am Seoul time as he did not seek extension of life after falling ill a year ago, according to LG Group in ...

Bloomberg Reliance Communications Ltd., the telecom arm of billionaire Anil Ambani, climbed by a record after a report that the indebted company is in settlement talks with the Indian unit of Ericsson AB, which this week won a petition to place the wireless carrier in insolvency proceedings. Shares of RCom, as the company is known, surged as much as 70 ...

Bloomberg Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd. is looking to gain a bigger foothold in North America’s tourism and leisure market through acquisitions, as the owner of Club Med SAS launches a new product line for China. “We’re interested in anything related to the tourism sector, from travel agencies and resort brands to recreational content providers,” Qian Jiannong, senior vice president ...

Bloomberg The UK’s white-collar crime prosecutor is preparing to open a formal bribery investigation into Glencore Plc and its work with billionaire Dan Gertler and the leader of Democratic Republic of Congo, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Investigators at the Serious Fraud Office plan to seek formal approval for a full probe into Glencore’s dealings in ...

Bloomberg Greece and its creditors agreed on the next steps for completing the country’s final bailout review, a key milestone for exiting the program and striking a deal on debt relief. Government officials and representatives from the International Monetary Fund and euro-area creditor institutions completed a week of discussions in Athens. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said reaching a technical ...