Bloomberg Boston-based startup Sublime Systems has raised $40 million to develop a new technology to produce low-carbon cement. The cement industry contributes as much as 8% to global emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide. Meeting global climate goals under the Paris Agreement would require reducing that to zero within decades. However, cement has proven to be one of the more difficult ...

  Bloomberg Investors’ sentiment for the German economy jumps to the highest level in almost a year, the latest evidence that confidence is building as a squeeze from soaring energy prices eases. The ZEW institute’s gauge of expectations rose to 16.9 in January from -23.3 in the previous month — better than any estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 27 ...

  Bloomberg Adler Group SA said it had commissioned a review of 800,000 documents originally withheld from its forensic audit and found no evidence of related-party deals. The German landlord said the review conducted by a law firm was investigating whether there was anything incriminating in the emails, calender entries and documents that had been withheld from KPMG’s probe, according ...