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Businesses cast doubt on UK-US post-Brexit trade deal

Bloomberg The transatlantic trade deal US President Donald Trump is offering UK Prime Minister Theresa May will ultimately prove easy to promise and hard to deliver. That’s the warning of business leaders and trade analysts after Trump told May last week that the post-Brexit accord she hankers after can be lined up “very, very quickly.” The challenge for the UK ...

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Google faces $1.3bn French ruling amid rising tax populism

Bloomberg Google will find out this week if it owes 1.12 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in back taxes to France, just days after it was slapped with a record antitrust fine by the European Union. Paris judges are set to rule as soon as Wednesday whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google illegally dodged French taxes by routing sales in the country out ...

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Syngenta CEO sees dual listing in Europe, US

Bloomberg Syngenta AG, the Swiss pesticide maker acquired by China National Chemical Corp. for $43 billion, is considering bourses in Europe and the US as possible locations for a re-listing of shares in about five years. “I would not be surprised if it was a combination of Europe and the US, as we were before,” Syngenta Chief Executive Officer Erik ...

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