BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) and the US are nearing an agreement on critical minerals that would provide EU companies access to some of the massive green subsidies offered in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The deal will likely be similar to an agreement the US signed with Japan that also included a commitment to not impose restrictions …

BLOOMBERG Porsche Automobil Holding SE won a crucial ruling in a €900 million ($976 million) class-action style lawsuit from investors who claimed the company should have warned shareholders about the diesel-emission software rigging at Volkswagen AG. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court said the company didn’t fail to inform markets about the use of a defeat device at Volkswagen long before …

BLOOMBERG An India appeals court upheld a fine of about $160 million slapped on Alphabet Inc’s Google by the country’s antitrust regulator, amid growing scrutiny over the company’s ambition to expand the global reach of its Android mobile operating system. Yet in a relief for Google, the court allowed some concessions to corrective measures the antitrust regulator had sought. The …