International News

Bloomberg London’s iconic red double-decker buses will soon run on a biofuel partially made from old coffee grounds. The fuel will be supplied by a demonstration project set up by Bio-bean Ltd., a London-based company that joined with Royal Dutch Shell Plc on the initiative. It will produce 6,000 litres a year of the fuel. “It’s got a high oil ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. will introduce electric vehicles in China and India from 2020 as it accelerates a push into battery-powered autos amid rapidly tightening environmental regulations. Japan’s biggest automaker will design its own EV for the Chinese market, and is also considering selling EVs developed by its local partners under its marque, the company’s head of China operations, Hiroji ...

Bloomberg Toshiba Corp. plans to sell shares to raise $5.4 billion and will explore a divestment of its Westinghouse-related assets in a bid to avoid being removed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Selling its holding in and its claims against nuclear-power business Westinghouse will let Toshiba “significantly reduce” resources required to rehabilitate that unit, funds that can be focused on ...

Bloomberg Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 800,000 of its Odyssey minivans in the US after receiving 46 reports of injuries over faulty passenger seats. The company will repair the seats free of charge for owners of 2011-2017 models, it said. “If a second row seat is not properly latched after adjusting it side-to-side or reinstalling a removed seat, the ...

Bloomberg Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says his country is expected to exceed expectations this year by recording economic growth above 3 percent. Addressing his People’s Action Party’s 2017 convention on Sunday, Lee said Singapore was benefiting from an improved world economy, but would have to press on with plans to restructure and upgrade the economy to sustain growth. ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s economy continues to defy its skeptics. It was meant to be the year when monetary tightening from the Federal Reserve, which dictates the city’s interest rates thanks to the local currency’s peg to the greenback, would prick a property bubble. And it was assumed that mainlanders would keep a firm grasp on their wallets, hurting sales across ...

Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond will announce a plan to increase house building by almost 40 percent as his Conservative Party seeks to woo younger voters with promises to give them the same home-ownership opportunities as their parents. The government hopes to see 300,000 new homes a year—an increase from the 217,000 built in the past fiscal ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration reiterated its goal to reduce the trade deficit with its NAFTA partners in revised negotiating objectives, while adding in proposals it made during talks that were opposed by Canada and Mexico. The US wants reciprocal market access for manufactured goods as part of its push to improve its trade balance with Canada and Mexico, the office ...

Bloomberg New sport utility vehicles like the Peugeot 5008 and a jump in demand in France helped revive European car sales in October, offsetting another month of consumer unease in the UK on big-ticket purchases. Registrations rose 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.21 million vehicles, the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, said in a statement. This ...

Bloomberg US Thanksgiving travel will jump to the highest level since 2005 boosted by a stronger economy, even as gasoline prices will be higher than a year earlier. About 50.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home for the November 22-November 26 holiday period, the ninth consecutive increase and a 3.3 percent jump over a year earlier, ...