Bloomberg Tesla Inc’s surprise profit in the third quarter came despite a drop of almost 40% in revenue from the US, its largest market. The electric automaker’s US sales plummeted to $3.13 billion in the latest quarter, from $5.13 billion a year earlier, according to a securities filing. Tesla said earlier global deliveries for the quarter rose a higher-than-expected 1.9% ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc cast doubt over a Franco-German plan for a European cloud that would allow the continent’s businesses to keep their data from being stored in the US or China. After the European Union’s (EU) two leading nations unveiled plans for an EU-focussed cloud, a spokesperson for Amazon’s AWS cloud business said such a project will lack the scale ...

Bloomberg German unemployment resumed its rise as factories remained in a slump, increasing the pressure on the government to step in with fiscal stimulus. The number of jobless climbed by 6,000 in October, compared with estimates for an increase of 3,000. The unemployment rate held at 5%, near a record low. The report follows a survey in October showing manufacturing ...