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Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. abandoned a $1 billion deal to sell its electric-battery business because the prospective buyer failed to raise the money required. The Japanese automaker cancelled the sale to GSR Capital, saying in a statement on Monday the Chinese private-equity firm didn’t have sufficient funds. Nissan and GSR were due to close the transaction by June 29. The ...

Bloomberg Embedded in the sleek metallic and cypress interior of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s new global headquarters in Tokyo are stylised Japanese characters for words like life, water and light. Melding futuristic design with traditional Japanese elements highlights the balancing act facing Chief Executive Officer Christophe Weber: showing he can honour the 237-year-old drugmaker’s Japanese heritage as he tries to complete ...

Bloomberg A red-hot electric vehicle market has triggered a face-off between Big Oil and utilities. Oil majors, who’ve sold fossil fuels to cars for a century, are now moving into an electricity sector that’s preparing for exponential growth. The problem is that utilities, the primary power suppliers for a century, have the same idea. BP Plc predicts electric vehicle sales ...

Bloomberg Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) declared force majeure on another two oil ports, removing thousands more barrels from the market just as global supply concerns put pressure on OPEC to ramp up production. Oil loadings at the Zueitina and Hariga export terminals in eastern Libya have stopped, the Tripoli-based NOC said on Monday. The halt comes just a week ...

Bloomberg The average American household will have $440 less to spend this year due to rising pump prices, putting at risk one-third of the windfall they got from tax cuts. Strong oil prices drove the cost of US gasoline to the highest level in more than three years last month, according to AAA, and pump prices are now 27 percent ...

Bloomberg Dell Technologies Inc, the world’s largest private technology company, announced plans to trade publicly again, entering a new stage of a multi-year turnaround plan. The tech giant will return to public markets by subsuming its tracking stock, DVMT, in a cash and share-swap deal, Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said in a filing on Monday. The shares, currently worth about ...

Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth held steady in June, providing some modestly good news at the end of the worst quarter for the sector since the end of 2016. IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers Index for the industry stood at 54.4 in June, up from a revised 54.3 in May and beating economists’ estimates for a drop. The average reading for the ...

Bloomberg Eclipsed by Brexit headlines, the most puzzling economic problem facing Britain is back in the limelight. Abysmal productivity growth has plagued the UK for a decade, sapping its underlying strength and undermining wage growth. Countless explanations and solutions have been proffered, and now the debate is raging again after a proposal that fixing it be made one of the ...

Bloomberg Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc. has joined a chorus of automotive companies urging the US not to impose tariffs on their products. The proposed tariffs would negatively affect both the US and Canada, cut jobs, and raise prices for consumers, Magna, among the the largest automotive suppliers in the US, said in a letter to US Commerce ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. reached a milestone critical to Elon Musk’s goal to bring electric cars to the masses — and earn some profit in the process — by finally exceeding a long-sought production target with the Model 3. By building more than 5,000 of the sedans in the last week of the second quarter, Tesla “just became a real car ...