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Bloomberg Two major hurricanes knocked down payrolls in September, yet the US labour market is holding up just fine. That’s the broad message from employment figures released by the Labor Department. Payrolls fell for the first time since 2010, reflecting Hurricane Harvey’s impact on Texas and Irma’s fallout in Florida. At the same time, the unemployment rate dropped to a ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump, who has pushed for broad rollbacks of regulations on the environment, markets, banking and other areas, mused on Twitter about restoring a media rule killed under a president he cites as one of his heroes, Ronald Reagan. “Late Night hosts are dealing with the Democrats for their very ‘unfunny’ & repetitive material, always anti-Trump! Should we ...

Bloomberg Sharp Corp.’s US legal battle with Hisense Electric Co. marks the start of an aggressive new campaign by the Japanese electronics company to obtain royalties on its patents as the company focuses on ultra-high-resolution televisions and “smart home” devices. The Osaka-based Sharp plans to be more assertive when it comes to demanding patent royalties and may even start filing ...

Bloomberg General Insurance Corp., India’s largest reinsurer, and its owner will seek as much as 113.7 billion rupees ($1.7 billion) after setting terms for the third-biggest initial public offering on record in the South Asian nation. GIC will offer 17.2 million new shares at 855 rupees to 912 rupees apiece, according to advertisement published on Wednesday in the Financial Express ...

Bloomberg Surging bids for Singapore land aren’t sustainable in a market constrained by demographics and the government’s cooling measures, according to the head of a developers’ association. “It is not sustainable to continue at this rate,” Augustine Tan, president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore, said on Wednesday. “With property measures in place, slow growth in Singapore’s population ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Anil Ambani’s battle to chip away at the $7 billion his telecom company owes its debtors seems to get harder with each passing day. The failure of a plan to merge with rival Aircel Ltd. to gain scale and pare borrowings has sent Reliance Communications Ltd. back to the drawing board to stitch together alternate deals to sell ...

Bloomberg India is pushing to renegotiate more liquefied natural gas deals after its success in reaching agreements with some of the world’s largest energy suppliers. GAIL India Ltd., the nation’s biggest gas utility, is working towards renegotiating two more long-term deals, according to the company’s chairman. Those would follow new deals with Qatar’s RasGas Co. in 2015 and Exxon Mobil ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. was hit by a European Union order to pay 250 million euros ($294 million) plus interest in back taxes to Luxembourg as the world’s biggest online retailer became the latest US giant to fall foul of the bloc’s state-aid rules. The European Commission also said it’s suing Ireland for foot-dragging in its efforts to recover “even part” ...

Bloomberg As part of a wide-ranging investigation into how Russian-linked operatives harnessed social media during the 2016 US election, lawmakers are homing in on Google services including YouTube and Gmail. The Senate has called Alphabet Inc.’s Google to testify on November 1, along with executives from Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. A US House of Representatives panel, which is running ...

Bloomberg Brexit could cost the UK its position as the leading data market in Europe, a government-funded digital innovation group warns. The British economy could miss out on as much as 67 billion euros ($79 billion) annually by failing to play its cards right in Brexit negotiations with the European Union over data market access, according to a report published ...