International News

Bloomberg Telecom Italia SpA posted first-quarter sales that beat analysts’ estimates driven by growth in domestic mobile and broadband subscriber numbers. In the carrier’s first results since US activist investor Elliott Management Corp. took control of its board this month, Telecom Italia said revenue rose 2.7 percent in organic terms to 4.71 billion euros ($5.5 billion). That compared with the ...

Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc. shares slipped in trading after the network-equipment maker’s fourth-quarter forecasts fell short of Wall Street’s most optimistic projections. Before the company provided its outlook for the current period, the stock had surged 32 percent in a year, last week reaching the highest price in more than 17 years. While Cisco said it’s optimistic about demand and ...

Bloomberg Linde AG and Praxair Inc. are poised to get a so-called statement of objections listing potential reasons for the European Union’s antitrust regulator to block their proposed $46 billion merger, according to three people familiar with the EU review. Such a filing — common in complex merger probes — would lay out precise concerns with the transaction combining the ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG and Deutsche Telekom AG agreed to a 3.2 billion-euro ($3.8 billion) deal with the German government, ending a spat over the clunky start of a system to collect truck tolls that had become one of the country’s longest running legal disputes. The agreement involves a cash payment of 1.1 billion euros, which will be split evenly between ...

Bloomberg European officials aren’t letting a first-quarter slowdown undermine their confidence in the economy, but an upcoming round of numbers may test their view that the winter blues will pass. Descriptions by various European Central Bank policy makers have ranged from solid to robust and strong when asked about the recent performance. Even after Germany, the euro area’s economic engine, ...

Bloomberg BT Group Plc, still reeling from an outlook for falling profits delivered last week, is counting on a slew of new consumer offerings to lift investor sentiment. The UK’s former phone monopoly is pulling the trigger on its unique ability to offer packages of mobile and landline services, two years after the 12.5 billion-pound ($16.9 billion) acquisition of mobile ...

Bloomberg The lumber market is red-hot, with futures rising to another record thanks to a confluence of import tariffs, transport bottlenecks and strong housing demand. The futures rose 1 percent to close at $619 per 1,000 board feet on the Chicago Board of Trade. They’ve surged 66 percent in the past 12 months, a bigger gain than any of the ...

Bloomberg Novartis AG’s top lawyer became the first executive to take the fall for the controversial $1.2 million in payments he helped arrange to Donald Trump’s attorney, as the drugmaker tries to contain the furor from last week’s revelation. Felix Ehrat, who along with former Chief Executive Officer Joe Jimenez signed the agreement with a consulting firm led by lawyer ...

Bloomberg An Indian tribunal ordered billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd. be placed under insolvency proceedings, jeopardising the phone company’s proposed $3.7 billion asset sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday accepted a petition from the Indian unit of network-equipment maker Ericsson AB, which is seeking to recover 11.6 billion ...

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son, the founder and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., is already thinking about his next $100 billion venture — a version 2.0 of the world’s biggest technology fund, according to people familiar with the matter. The Japanese entrepreneur has held preliminary discussions with investors about committing to a second fund as early as 2019, the people ...