International News

Bloomberg Anglo American Plc’s biggest shareholder, billionaire Anil Agarwal, has offered to help the mining giant expand into India. “That’s a big market for them,” Agarwal said in an interview in Lusaka. “I am going to help them if they need to open up that market for them to work there.” The mining tycoon wasn’t explicit about whether he wanted ...

Bloomberg China’s southernmost province of Hainan is getting a package of favourable policies covering tourism, duty-free shopping and medical services that’s designed to help transform the island into an international tourism destination. Hainan, often billed as China’s Hawaii, will become a “free trade port,” China National Radio reported. The upgraded status is an economic distinction that’s aimed to help boost ...

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG’s trucks chief wants to take his division to “the next level,” with the German manufacturer considering a stock listing that would catapult the $37-billion unit into the blue chip ranks of Europe’s largest economy. “An initial public offering is just one of the options, another is that we could issue our own bonds,” Andreas Renschler, who oversees ...

NEW YORK / Reuters General Electric Co said it took a $4.24 billion equity charge and reduced earnings for the last two years by 30 cents a share, figures in line with expectations the company set earlier this year when it said it would comply with new accounting standards. The maker of power plants, jet engines, medical devices and other ...

Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. must make an offer for Sky Plc if its $52.4 billion purchase of most of 21st Century Fox Inc. succeeds, the UK Takeover Panel ruled. Disney would have to bid 10.75 pounds per Sky share upon completing the acquisition of Fox assets, which include an existing 39 percent in Sky, and if Fox or Comcast Corp. ...

Reuters Saga Plc, an over-50s travel and insurance company, reported a small rise in full-year pretax profit after its tour operations were hit by the collapse of Monarch Airlines, but said its travel business had “excellent” visibility this year. Saga, which offers ocean and river cruises, singles holidays and escorted tours, said underlying pretax profit rose to 190.1 million pounds ...

Reuters French food services and facilities management group Sodexo reported a well-flagged fall in first-half core operating profit and kept its recently reduced targets for sales growth and margins for the 2017/18 full year. Sodexo, which is the world’s second-biggest catering company after Compass Group, struck a cautious tone over its medium-term goals although Chief Executive Denis Machuel said he ...

London / Reuters GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker’s pharmaceuticals portfolio. Financially, the transaction will not move the dial for Britain’s biggest drugmaker, but it offers a sign that Walmsley is making progress in reshaping the company ...

Bloomberg Fortis Healthcare Ltd. said it has received a joint investment proposal from two Indian business families, intensifying a race to gain control of the country’s second-largest private hospital chain. Hero Enterprise Investment Office and the Burman Family Office have made a binding offer to invest a total of 12.5 billion rupees ($192 million) through a preferential share allotment at ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s plan to roll out broadband internet services to Indian households this year under Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. has the potential to alter the segment’s competitive landscape, credit rating company S&P Global Ratings says. The new service may add $5 billion to parent company Reliance Industries’ valuation, according to CLSA India. The brokerage firm anticipates a $611 ...