Bloomberg June US sales show automakers are still selling lots of expensive trucks and sport utility vehicles, a bright spot that’s rescuing profitability in a market forecast to decline from last year’s record sales. Deliveries of Toyota Motor Corp.’s RAV4 spiked 25 percent, while Honda Motor Co.’s HR-V saw a 35 percent gain, according to Autodata Corp. Toyota, Honda and ...

Reuters­­­­ / Bloomberg United Arab Emirates foreign minister His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said on Tuesday that Arab countries boycotting Qatar over its support for terrorism were still awaiting a response to their demands via mediator Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt are pressing Qatar to shut its Al Jazeera news TV station and scale ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping called for closer cooperation with Germany in shaping the global order, marking out Chancellor Angela Merkel as an ally on free trade at this week’s Group of 20 summit. “The strategic character of Chinese-German relations is steadily gaining in importance,” Xi said in an op-ed article published on Tuesday in German newspaper Die Welt, citing ...