Bloomberg Thousands of demonstrators chanting slogans marched through one of Hong Kong’s busiest tourist districts, the latest demonstration in weeks of mass protests triggered by a proposed law that would allow extraditions of criminals to mainland China for the first time. The marchers walked through the pedestrian-heavy Tsim Sha Tsui area as they headed towards the city’s new high-speed rail ...

The trade deal between the European Union and four of Latin America’s biggest economies is a sharp riposte to both US President Donald Trump and Britain’s Brexiters. The agreement, reached after 20 years of negotiations, will end tariffs on 93 percent of Mercosur’s exports to the EU over time, with the rest getting “preferential treatment.” European companies — including those ...

As US anti-monopoly authorities weigh possible investigations into America’s technology superpowers, there is one advantage the government can’t touch: the size, scale and might of the tech giants’ computer networks, logistics machines and other infrastructure. This week, Bloomberg News wrote about the irony of the last decade of flourishing technology startups. Many of the upstarts might not exist without the ...