Bloomberg European car demand rose at a slower pace in June as fewer selling days in Germany and Brexit-related concerns in the UK weighed on a peaking vehicle market. Industrywide registrations increased 2.1 percent from a year earlier to 1.54 million vehicles last month, with Toyota and Fiat models posting the biggest gains, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG said it will push back against allegations that it manipulated emissions in its Mercedes-Benz engines, as a German government pr-obe into the luxury-car ma-ker deepens. “We would employ all legal means” to defend against any accusation by the Federal Transport Motor Authority of an illegal defeat device in Mercedes-Benz cars, the company said in an emailed statement. ...

Don’t worry, the robots won’t destroy all our jobs. History suggests just the opposite — that new technologies inspire new jobs. So concludes a study from leading labor economists. It’s a useful antidote to widespread fears that robots and ‘artificial intelligence’ will displace millions of workers and lead to permanently high joblessness. No doubt, the anxiety is real. Despite a ...