Bloomberg General Electric Co. is moving closer to a sale of its industrial gas-engine business for more than $3.5 billion after narrowing the list of bidders, according to people familiar with the matter. Manufacturers Cummins Inc. and Kohler Co., as well as a group comprised of investment firms KKR & Co. and B&C Industrieholding GmbH, advanced to the next round ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the world have to deal with China’s militarisation of the South China Sea for now, but that Beijing would face “larger consequences” in the long term that could persuade it to change track. Beijing’s deployments of missile batteries and bombers to outposts in disputed areas appear aimed at intimidating neighbours, Mattis told ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump conceded that North Korea won’t agree to immediately give up its nuclear weapons as he confirmed his June 12 summit with Kim Jong Un will go ahead. In a scene that would have been difficult to imagine even a few months ago, Trump walked former North Korean spy chief Kim Yong Chol to his black SUV ...