International News

Bloomberg India’s vast rural hinterland, which makes up 70 percent of the South Asian country’s population, is showing signs of recovery from last year’s cash crunch, boosting optimism that increased spending will help the broader economy regain its vigor. The micro-finance industry is rebounding, real rural incomes are rising and unemployment is falling, according to brokerage Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. ...

Bloomberg Sunac China Holdings Ltd. shares and bonds plunged after a local media report that domestic banks are reviewing its credit risk following a deal to buy assets from Dalian Wanda Group Co., a firm that has attracted scrutiny from China’s leaders for its prolific deal binge. The shares fell 7.3 percent to HK$15.94, in Hong Kong after earlier plunging ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US wants to reduce trade imbala-nces with Mexico and Canada and boost exports of everything from farm goods to financial services as it prepares to kick off talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement. The office of Trump’s top trade negotiator released the administration’s list of negotiating objectives for talks with Mexico ...

Bloomberg Ericsson AB cautioned that turning around the beleaguered phone-equipment maker will require even steeper cost cuts, testing the patience of investors who sent the stock tumbling the most this year. Ericsson fell as much as 11 percent to 54 kronor in Stockholm after the company posted a second-quarter loss and warned that a faltering market amid technology shifts could ...

Bloomberg Oracle Corp. is hiring 1,000 employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as it expands its cloud computing services in the region. The company is looking for workers with between two to six years of experience to staff sales, management, finance, recruitment, marketing and human resources roles for its cloud computing service, Oracle said on Tuesday. The Redwood, ...

Bloomberg Mahindra, the Indian cars-to-technology conglomerate, plans to boost US investment as it prepares for the prospect that President Donald Trump will cut quotas for the H-1B visas needed to service clients at its outsourcing business. US investment and employment will be doubled in five years, said Pawan Goenka, managing director at automaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Mahindra has already ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. moved to diversify a board that some investors have complained is too closely tied to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, adding two executives from major media companies. James Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., and Linda Johnson Rice, the chairman of Johnson Publishing Co., joined Tesla’s board effective Thursday, according to a filing. Murdoch ...

Bloomberg China’s economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter, putting the nation on track to meet its growth target this year and giving backing to officials in their campaign to corral oncoming financial risk. Data showing that the world’s second-largest economy expanded 6.9 percent in the second quarter, matching the pace from the first three months, was released ...

Bloomberg Mining companies in Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of iron ore and coal, are poised to approve fresh investments in projects, driven by rallying commodity prices and the need to replace depleting deposits, according to global equipment supply giant Komatsu Ltd. “They’re looking at new fleets of equipment,” Sean Taylor, chief executive officer of Komatsu’s Australian unit, said in ...

Bloomberg China plans to cut off some funding for billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group Co. after concluding the conglomerate breached restrictions for overseas investments, said people familiar with the decision. Six investments, such as the purchases of Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB and Carmike Cinemas Inc., were found to have violations, said the people, who asked not to be ...