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Bloomberg In the end, the fate of AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion merger with Time Warner Inc. will come down to he said versus he said. Lawyers for AT&T and the Justice Department clashed one last time at the close of a six-week trial over the proposed combination, a deal the government aims to stop. The judge overseeing the antitrust case ...

Bloomberg Baidu Inc. has raised more than $1.9 billion for its newly spun-off financial services division from TPG, Carlyle Group and other investors, creating one of China’s best-funded fintech companies. Taikang Group and other backers also joined the funding round for the newly formed company, which will be called “Du Xiaoman Financial” and use artificial intelligence to provide short-term loans ...

Bloomberg Less than a year after HNA Group Co. paid $2.21 billion for 245 Park Ave. — a purchase that raised eyebrows for its near-record price — the troubled Chinese conglomerate is in talks to sell the Manhattan office tower. SL Green Realty Corp., a lender to 245 Park, is in discussions with HNA to purchase the building, according to ...

Bloomberg Just a month after President Trump upended the global order with threats of tariffs against allies and adversaries alike, his ambassador to the World Trade Organization took aim at both China, a main focus of Washington’s ire, and the global trade body itself. China’s “trade-distorting policies” represent a “threat to the international trading system,” Deputy US Trade Representative Dennis ...

Bloomberg Noble Group Ltd. said it plans to set the date for a special general meeting shortly that will decide the commodity trader’s controversial restructuring after the Singapore High Court blocked it from holding an annual meeting at the behest of dissident shareholder Goldilocks Investment Co. The court, however, hasn’t restrained Noble from holding future special general meetings, the company ...

Bloomberg The Great Barrier Reef is being $379 million boost by Australia in the battle to save the world’s largest living structure as it faces mounting challenges such as climate change, agricultural runoff and a coraleating starfish. “Like reefs all over the world, the Great Barrier Reef is under pressure,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement on Sunday, ...

Bloomberg Gold jewellers in India are expecting a cool reception in the short term to any plans to publicly trade shares in the wake of an alleged $2 billion fraud by jewellers Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. Joyalukkas Group has put an initial share sale of its jewellery business on hold and will revisit the proposal after national elections next ...

Bloomberg Pipeline owners led by Enbridge Inc. and Williams Cos. could be forced to refund as much as $18.5 billion to drillers, utilities and even United Airlines Inc. for upfront payments they charged customers before new US tax rules cut the corporate rate. Natural gas conduits include the cost of future tax payments in customer fees. Because the Trump administration ...

Bloomberg Denmark may be open to financial incentives to buy electric cars after seeing a dramatic drop in sales of non-polluting vehicles, according to Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. “We have tax incentives for electric cars, and you could discuss if they should be bigger. I will not exclude that,” Rasmussen said in an interview in Copenhagen. Any new incentives ...

Bloomberg Roche Holding AG’s bet on fields outside its mainstay market of cancer is starting to pay off as the Swiss drugmaker boosted its forecast for this year. New medicines such as Ocrevus for multiple sclerosis and Hemlibra for hemophilia are driving the increase, the company said in a statement. The world’s biggest maker of cancer treatments also reported sales ...