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Bloomberg Jiangxi Copper Co., China’s largest producer, is halting all output in the province after the local government ordered the curbs to reduce pollution, a company official said on Tuesday. The smelter received the order to stop production for at least a week before a further assessment based on local pollution levels, the official said, asking not to be identified ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. looks like it’s having a not-so Merry Christmas. Analysts have lowered iPhone X shipment projections for the first quarter of next year, citing signs of lackluster demand at the end of the holiday shopping season. Sinolink Securities Co. analyst Zhang Bin said in a report that handset shipments in the period may be as low as 35 ...

Bloomberg ADT Inc., the security company backed by Apollo Global Management LLC, filed for a US initial public offering. The company filed with an initial offering size of $100 million, a placeholder that’s typically used to calculate fees and will likely change, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. ADT intends to use the proceeds to ...

Bloomberg A picture of inflation-squeezed consumers and Brexit-wary companies emerged in the UK’s latest overview of its economy. Annual growth in the third quarter slowed to 1.7 percent, slightly higher than previously estimated but still the weakest pace in 4 1/2 years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The economy expanded an unrevised 0.4 percent from the second quarter, ...

Bloomberg For millions of Americans suffering from debilitating nerve pain, a once-overlooked option has emerged as an alternative to high doses of opioids: implanted medical devices using electricity to counteract pain signals the same way noise-cancelling headphones work against sound. The approach, called neuromodulation, has been a godsend for Linda Landy, who was a 42-year-old runner when a foot surgery ...

Bloomberg China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its economy by 2020 even if annual expansion slows to 6.3 percent, according to a senior Communist Party official, signalling a greater willingness to tackle debt and pollution at the expense of growth. In its blueprint for 2016 to 2020, China set a minimum annual growth target of 6.5 ...

Bloomberg PSA Group is replacing its head of Asian operations as the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars struggles to stem a sales slump in China. Denis Martin, 61, who’s been managing the China and southeast Asia region since 2016, is leaving to pursue “personal projects,” and will be succeeded in the role by Carlos Gomes, who currently leads Latin ...

Bloomberg Shanghai will replace Paris in the top five of global city economies by 2035 in a sign the balance of the world’s economy is shifting east, according to an Oxford Economics study. The top 780 cities in the world, which already produce almost 60 percent of global activity, will add almost half a billion more people and $32 trillion ...

Bloomberg Singapore banned two more financial professionals over breaches related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd., taking to eight the number of prohibitions handed down by the city in connection with the troubled state investment fund. The Monetary Authority of Singapore issued a lifetime prohibition order on former private banker Yeo Jiawei and placed a three-year ban on Kevin Scully, the former ...

Bloomberg Just as most people are packing up for the holidays, dealmakers across the world are rushing to finish up a slew of transactions in industries ranging from consumer to telecom to health care. Companies have announced about $361 billion of mergers and acquisitions this month, making it the busiest December in at least 12 years, according to data compiled ...