Bloomberg TAG Heuer will open an office in Silicon Valley, marking the first time a big Swiss watchmaker has expanded into the cradle of the US technology sector and cementing its smartwatch alliance with Google and Intel Corp. The office, which opened Nov. 1 and is located on Intel’s campus in Santa Clara, California, will house about a dozen ...

  AFP An International Monetary Fund team arrived in Kiev on Thursday to check on cash-strapped Ukraine’s books and set out a series of tough conditions for the disbursement of further loans. The IMF approved a $17.5-billion (15.8-billion-euro) rescue package for the war-scarred former Soviet republic in 2015 to help it recover from two years of savage recession and allow ...

  Bloomberg Egypt has agreed to buy about 400 megawatts of solar capacity, a sign that developers are slowly moving forward with clean-energy projects after a currency crisis in the country this year slowed the industry. The power-purchase contracts are worth about 600 million euros ($662 million), according to Mohamed Salah El Sobki, executive chairman of Egypt’s New and Renewable ...