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Nintendo jumps on optimism that game sales will pick up

  Bloomberg Nintendo Co.’s shares jumped as much as 2.9 percent in Tokyo, reversing losses, as investors bet that the company’s lower-than-anticipated operating profit forecast will be raised when more people buy games for the new Switch hybrid console. Operating profit for the fiscal year through March 2018 will be $584 million, the Kyoto-based company said, which was short of ...

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Trump wins easier path to undo ‘clean power plan’

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump won a court ruling making it easier for him to rescind the Clean Power Plan, his predecessor’s program for weaning American power producers off of coal and other fossil fuels. The US Court of Appeals in Washington put a 26-state lawsuit challenging the plan on hold for 60 days without deciding whether the initiative is ...

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Spain shows renewed momentum in first quarter

  Bloomberg The Spanish economy showed signs of renewed momentum in the first quarter with growth accelerating faster than expected. Output grew 0.8 percent in the three months through March, the National Statistics Office said in a preliminary report. That compares with 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter and beats the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists predicting ...

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