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  BEIJING / AP Chinese and American officials said on Tuesday they’re committed to bridging their differences on cybersecurity and moving to implement recent agreements, as they held talks amid complaints over China-based hacking operations that the US says may have already cost US companies tens of billions of dollars. Repeated meetings between the sides on cybersecurity indicate the seriousness ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Coal is set to overtake gas within the next three years as the largest generator of power in Japan as power utilities replace aging nuclear capacity with the fossil fuel, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. Nuclear power, which accounted for about 29 percent of Japan’s total power output before the 2011 Fukushima disaster, will peak at ...

  New Delhi / AFP Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to millions of farmers, they said on Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with scientific equipment over the bay to measure the atmosphere as part of the multi-million ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the biggest shareholder in Mitsubishi Motors Corp., will hold onto its stake in the automaker that Carlos Ghosn is seeking to turn around following a fuel-economy test scandal. The maker of power plant equipment, aircraft and ships will refrain from selling its holdings in Mitsubishi Motors even as it plans to raise ...

  Bloomberg Britain appeared to be on course to leave the EU, with four polls from three companies putting the ‘Leave’ campaign ahead of ‘Remain.’ The pound and European stocks plunged on Tuesday with just nine days of campaigning left before the June 23 referendum. After a series of new polls on Monday put “Leave” ahead, the day’s final blow ...

  Bloomberg The pound fell toward a two-month low as concern grew that the U.K. will leave the European Union. Sterling declined against all but two of its 16 major counterparts as four polls from three companies put the “Leave” campaign ahead and the Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper, backed a Brexit on its front page. A gauge of the pound’s ...

  Bloomberg Investors contemplating how London could look outside the European Union have already identified some potential victims: fast-growing British lenders that might have to face their first economic downturn as public companies. Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Money Holdings UK Plc and small lenders like OneSavings Bank Plc have ridden the recovering economy of recent years to help them win ...

  Bloomberg Daetwyler Holding AG, a Swiss provider of engineering and industrial parts, agreed to buy Premier Farnell Plc of the U.K. for £615 mn ($871 million) in a deal aimed at consolidating the fragmented European market for electronic-component distribution. Investors will get 165 pence in cash for each Premier Farnell share, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. ...

  Bloomberg France is set to continue the quick pace of wheat exports into next season, with low freight rates and large stockpiles helping increase overseas sales, according to the nation’s largest grain cooperatives. Shipments will probably start earlier than last year and exports to unusual destinations including countries in Asia will continue, Philippe de Raynal, chief executive officer of ...

  Bloomberg Swedish inflation slowed more than estimated in May, adding pressure on the central bank to expand its unprecedented stimulus measures at its meeting next month. Consumer prices rose an annual 0.6 percent in May, compared with 0.8 percent the prior month, Statistics Sweden said in a statement on Tuesday. The Riksbank and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg estimated inflation ...