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Bloomberg The earliest indicators for China’s economy in June signal that the manufacturing sector may be poised to decelerate, while other challenges loom in the second half of this year. Small- and medium-sized enterprises showed the lowest level of confidence in 16 months, a gauge of manufacturing drawn from satellite imagery slumped, and conditions in the steel business remained lackluster. ...

Bloomberg Glencore Plc’s years-long pursuit for a bigger Australian coal business was delivered another setback after Rio Tinto Group passed on the company’s offer for a second time. Now the mining giant run by a former coal trader is running out of time to come back with a better offer or lose out on a deal the company has chased ...

Bloomberg Google lost its biggest regulatory battle yet, getting a record 2.4 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) fine from European Union enforcers who say the search-engine giant skewed results to thwart smaller shopping search services. Alphabet Inc.’s Google has 90 days to “stop its illegal conduct” and give equal treatment to rival price-comparison services, according to a binding order from the European ...

Bloomberg The Navajo generating station, the biggest coal-fired power plant in the US West, may live to see another two years. On Monday, Navajo Nation leaders agreed to a deal with the plant’s utility owners that, as originally proposed, could keep the ailing, 2,250-megawatt complex online through December 2019. It would buy the tribe more time to try to attract ...

Bloomberg Old-school rental-car agencies may have a road map to prosper in the age of self-driving taxis after all. Avis Budget Group Inc. agreed to manage a fleet of 600 self-driving Chrysler minivans for Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo autonomous technology division. In addition, Hertz Global Holdings Inc. will lease Lexus sport-utility vehicles to Apple Inc., which will convert them to self-driving ...

Bloomberg Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc., the two largest US cable companies, met with executives at Sprint Corp. in the past month to discuss reselling wireless services or an acquisition, people familiar with the matter said. The more likely scenario is the cable giants strike a deal that lets them resell services on Sprint’s wireless network, the people said, ...

Bloomberg Stada Arzneimittel AG’s months-long sale process unraveled as a small group of the German drugmaker’s investors held out for a better deal than the 5.3 billion-euro ($5.9 billion) offered by two private equity firms. Only 65.5 percent of the shares were tendered in Bain Capital and Cinven’s offer by the Thursday deadline, Bad Vilbel, Germany-based Stada said in a ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A total of 12.922 million cheques worth AED643.7 billion were handled by the UAE Clearing Cheque System during the first five months of 2017, according to the UAE Central Bank data. A total of AED28.9 billion worth of 546,000 cheques were bounced from January through the end of May, accounting for 4.5 percent of the cheques’ ...

Dubai / WAM Data Hub Integrated Solutions (MORO), a fully-owned subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dell to enhance collaboration and partnership between the two companies and to develop and deliver cloud computing solutions, integrated infrastructure administration services and servers, secure data storage solutions, innovative information technology applications. The MoU facilitates enhanced ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The number of marketing foreign funds incorporated by the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) in the UAE grew 5.6 percent to 633 funds by the end of 2016, from 599 in 2015. SCA in recent statistics indicated that the number of foreign marketing funds operating in the country over the past five years jumped from 218 ...