Bloomberg The Italian economy, the euro region’s third-biggest, will expand this year even less than in 2015 after failing to growth in the second quarter, the country’s main employers’ lobby said. Gross domestic product will increase an annual 0.7 percent, compared with the 0.8 percent growth last year, Confindustria said in a report presented in Rome on Thursday. Earlier …

  Stockholm / AFP US and Dutch authorities are seeking $1.4 billion from Telia to settle probes into alleged corrupt practices by the Swedish telecoms operator in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan, Telia said on Thursday. It said the proposals for the settlement did not go into much detail “but suggests a total settlement amount of approximately USD 1.4 …

America is on the mend. Witness the good news in the latest version of the nation’s “economic report card”: the Census Bureau’s annual estimates of the median household income and the poverty rate. Here are the crucial numbers. In 2015, median household income — the midpoint, with half of households above and half below — rose 5.2 percent to $56,500 …