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Bloomberg Alphabet Inc. said that the European Commission’s recent antitrust fine will reduce second-quarter profit by about $2.74 billion. The company plans to report the fine in a separate operating expense line on its income statement. It’s not tax deductible, so the charge will reduce Alphabet’s net income and earnings per share by the full $2.74 billion amount, it said ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, has announced that work is progressing in seven infrastructure projects at the area of Abu Dhabi east, as part of Musanada’s efforts to achieve the objectives of Abu Dhabi Plan, delivering sustainable infrastructure that will serve Emirate’s community and economy in line with best international standards and reinforce Abu Dhabi’s ...

Bloomberg South Korea must give US automakers “a fair shake” to sell more cars there and stop exporting “dumped steel,” President Donald Trump told his counterpart Moon Jae-in during talks at the White House. After meeting with Moon, Trump emphasized he’ll press for changes to the current free-trade agreement to reduce the US trade deficit with South Korea. He told ...

Bloomberg China’s official factory gauge concluded the first half of the year on a robust note, the latest evidence of stable momentum that gives policy makers room to continue defusing financial risks. The manufacturing purchasing managers index increased to 51.7 in June, beating all estimates compiled by a Bloomberg survey of economists, and the 51.2 reading in May. The non-manufacturing ...

Bloomberg China’s hidden debt risks are back in the spotlight this week. A chemical maker in the eastern province of Shandong had trading of its bonds suspended amid uncertainty over its operating performance. That triggered a slump in the dollar bonds of a neighboring company that had guaranteed the other’s debt. China’s privately held firms have relied on extending such ...

Bloomberg The pressure on consumers from the soaring cost of living was laid bare as Britain published its most complete picture of the economy in the first three months of the year. Britons saved a smaller proportion of their incomes than at any time on record and household incomes adjusted for inflation fell for a third straight quarter, the longest ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump hasn’t decided yet whether to impose punitive measures on steel imports for reasons of national secur- ity, as the administration missed a self-imposed deadline to conclude its investigation. While the Commerce Department has until early next year to determine whether foreign-made steel threatens US security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, Secretary Wilbur Ross ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping warned a divided Hong Kong that challenges to China’s rule wouldn’t be tolerated and said the city’s leaders must find new ways to profit from Chinese economic clout. Xi’s stern speech on Saturday — at a ceremony in which he swore in Carrie Lam, 60, as Hong Kong’s first female chief executive — capped a three-day ...

Bloomberg A Tokyo election this weekend gives Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to stop the bleeding from a series of recent scandals that hurt his popularity. Polls indicate that his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) risks losing its position as the largest party in the capital’s assembly on Sunday to a group led by Governor Yuriko Koike, who resigned ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The 2016/2017 Dubai Cruise season officially concluded with the departure of the season’s final ship, the C.S. Sea Princess, from Port Rashid recently. After a stopover in Dubai, the luxury ship’s only port of call in the GCC, the C.S. Sea Princess continued her voyage to Aqaba as part of a 104-nights round trip around the ...