Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is ruling out further job cuts at its brokerage business in Asia after a lengthy overhaul, even as global banks trim headcount during the pandemic. “We are done with it — it’s over,” Saburo Araki, chief executive officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., said in an interview. “It must have been painful for …

Bloomberg In the country that pioneered the world’s first industrial revolution in the 18th century, its latest one is looking very much on hold. The global shift towards robotics and artificial intelligence across advanced economies is currently in a go-slow phase in the UK — where both Covid-19 and Brexit have hampered progress. That threatens to harm Britain’s competitiveness against …

Bloomberg Apple Inc. has stopped selling headphones and wireless speakers from rivals including Sonos Inc., Bose Corp. and Logitech International SA as the company gears up to launch its own new audio products. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant has long sold third-party hardware on its website, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world. All headphones and speakers from …