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Trump’s TPP pullout move US leaves farmers behind

  Bloomberg Donald Trump’s push against trade deals he says have devastated small-town US workers is bringing disappointment to another key piece of his rural American coalition: Farmers and ranchers who heartily supported the president in hopes of less regulation and lower taxes. Trump’s decision on Monday to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have reduced tariffs and ...

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Cisco to buy software maker AppDynamics for $3.7 billion

  Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to acquire AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion, snapping up the fast-growing software maker just before it planned to go public. Cisco, the world’s biggest maker of networking gear, will add AppDynamics’ software and services that help companies to monitor and fine-tune the performance of their own business systems. AppDynamics, based in San Francisco, was ...

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UK economy’s Brexit success still has companies fretting

  Bloomberg The UK economy may have cleared its 2016 Brexit test, but that’s not easing companies’ concern about the approaching challenges. Days before figures are predicted to show a healthy 0.5 percent expansion in the last quarter of 2016, businesses from airline EasyJet Plc to telecommunications firm BT Group Plc cited Brexit-linked problems such as a weaker pound and ...

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