Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd. is being targeted for an overhaul by occasional activist Elliott Management Corp., which urged the world’s biggest mining company to spin off about $22 billion of US oil assets and list them in New York. Elliott says BHP, which has two separate legal entities listed in Sydney and London that are run as one group, ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump took credit for Toyota Motor Corp. investing $1.33 billion in an existing US factory, championing spending by a Japanese automaker he’s blasted for building a plant in Mexico. The outlays in Georgetown, Kentucky, aren’t new — they’ve been in the works for years. But the way they’re being marketed is. Instead of emphasizing cost efficiency, ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google denied Department of Labor allegations that an in-progress investigation suggests “systemic compensation disparities against women” at the internet giant. “Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap,” Google said in an emailed statement. “Other than making an unfounded statement which we heard ...