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Bloomberg Tata Steel Ltd.’s plan to double its production capacity in five years received a boost after an Indian court gave its final approval for the purchase of the assets of Bhushan Steel Ltd., Tata’s biggest buy since Corus Group Plc. The two-judge tribunal rejected objections to Tata’s bid from Bhushan creditor Larsen & Toubro Ltd. and the steel company’s ...

Bloomberg China Tower Corp., the state-owned wireless infrastructure operator, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong that could match the city’s biggest since 2010. While the world’s largest telecom tower service provider didn’t give a fund-raising target or proposed timing of the sale in its filing dated Monday, the IPO may raise about $10 billion, people with ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said he criticised Donald Trump’s approach to trade with China in a recent White House meeting, while urging the president to address the legal status of immigrants known as Dreamers. In an interview on Bloomberg Television, Cook said his message to Trump focussed on the importance of trade and how cooperation between ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. is back below HK$400 as investors await its quarterly earnings. The shares slumped 3.4 percent on Tuesday for the biggest drag on the Hang Seng Index, taking its losses since a record in January to $95 billion. Whether it’s just a case of profit taking after a five-day rally, whispers about quarterly numbers, or just index ...

Bloomberg An influential proxy adviser joined Elliott Management Corp. in opposing an $8.8 billion deal between two Hyundai Motor Group units, complicating the automotive giant’s ability to get shareholders to vote for an overhaul that may help the chairman pass control of the South Korean conglomerate to his son. Glass Lewis & Co., which provides voting advice for more than ...

Bloomberg US companies and business groups are lining up to oppose the Trump administration’s plan to slap tariffs on Chinese imports, as the two nations step up efforts to resolve their trade dispute. About 120 firms and industry groups are scheduled to testify at a hearing on the administration’s plan to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods. So ...

Bloomberg Economic growth slowed across Europe at the start of the year, with Germany seeing its pace of expansion cut in half amid weaker trade. The 0.3 percent increase in Europe’s largest economy was softer than forecast and the weakest in more than a year. Dutch and Portuguese growth also cooled more than expected in the first quarter, while a ...

Bloomberg Allianz SE’s asset-management business saw earnings soar on the back of increased inflows at the German firm’s Pimco unit. Operating profit at the unit, adjusted for foreign-exchange effects, increased by a “remarkable” 16.3 percent in the first quarter, Europe’s largest insurer said in a statement on Tuesday. External managers allocated almost 21 billion euros ($25 billion) to the firm, ...

Bloomberg Vodafone Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao is leaving after a decade of retreating from aggressive global growth in favor of the European market, handing the reins to company veteran Nick Read. Colao, 56, will depart from the world’s second-largest mobile carrier in October and Read, the 53-year-old chief financial officer, will take over. Vodafone made the surprise ...

Bloomberg The chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV admonished a company spokesman in 2015 for saying the company didn’t rig its vehicles with illegal software to pass emissions tests, according to documents filed in a related lawsuit. An excerpt of the 2015 email from CEO Sergio Marchionne to Fiat Chrysler’s then-head of US communications, Gualberto Ranieri, was revealed in ...