Bloomberg Euro-area exports fell for the first time in five years at the start of 2018, dragging on economic growth, which slowed sharply in the period. Updated first-quarter GDP data showed that government spending stagnated in the three months through March, while exports fell 0.4 percent and net trade proved a drag. The economy expanded 0.4 percent, down from 0.7 ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG could split its truck unit and passenger-car business into separate companies, but it’s not a necessity and won’t happen unless stockholders want it to. “It’s not so much an issue of management, it’s more of the shareholders, what they want to do,” Martin Daum, Chief Executive Officer of Daimler’s truck unit, said in an interview at the ...

Bloomberg Israeli troops killed four Palestinians along the Gaza Strip border on June 08 as the Hamas group that rules the coastal strip struggled to revive a flagging protest campaign. About 10,000 people protested at five spots along the border, sending flaming kites and airborne pipe bombs into Israel and hurling rocks and grenades, the Israeli army said. At least ...