Bloomberg To convince investors to finance a pan-European war against Uber Technologies Inc., a French ride-hailing app 50 times smaller has a one-word pitch: profit. Chauffeur-Prive is near closing a 50-million-euro ($53 million) fundraising round to expand out of Paris into the rest of Europe, with the promise it can extend a five-year streak of growth while turning a ...

  Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV expects debt to fall by at least 45 percent this year as the Italian-American carmaker enters the final stretch of a plan to turn liabilities into cash by selling more expensive autos. The stock jumped. Net industrial debt will narrow to less than 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion) this year from 4.6 billion euros ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. results next week will likely show iPhone sales growing again, bucking a year of declines. That’s the good news. The bad news: The average selling price of the handsets in the key holiday quarter ending in late December may show customers settling for older iPhone 6S models, rather than the iPhone 7, introduced in September, according ...