Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel hit the campaign trail with a swipe at German auto executives for a diesel cheating scandal, sounding a pro-labour message she’ll use to counter her Social Democratic Party challenger leading up to the country’s Sept. 24 election. As polls give Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union-led bloc a wide lead over the SPD with six weeks of campaigning …

Bloomberg The former Google engineer, whose controversial memo has triggered a nationwide debate on gender differences and diversity efforts in technology, defended his views in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg Television, saying company executives are smearing him in its wake. James Damore, who until Monday worked as an engineer on video and image search at Alphabet Inc.’s Mountain View, California, …

Bloomberg UK shoppers are in the “teeth” of a squeeze on their pockets and they’re going to have to ride it out for the rest of the year. That’s the view of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who said this month that consumers may have to wait a bit longer to see real wage growth again. Data next week …