Bloomberg Wirecard AG rose the most since June after it revealed that more than 130 investors are eyeing the company’s assets. Some 60 potential buyers have signed confidentiality agreements relating to the bidding for Wirecard’s North America unit, and 77 have done so for its core business of acquiring and issuing, the company’s insolvency administrator, Michael Jaffe, said in a ...

Bloomberg AstraZeneca Plc agreed to pay as much as $6 billion to buy into a promising medicine for lung and breast cancer in the second potential blockbuster oncology deal in two years with Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo Co. The UK drugmaker will pay Daiichi $1 billion upfront to jointly develop and bring to market a cancer therapy in early clinical tests ...

Bloomberg German businesses are growing increasingly optimistic that government support at home and an unprecedented euro-area fiscal plan will bolster demand and drive an economic recovery later this year. Expectations at companies surveyed by the country’s Ifo institute improved to 97 in July from a revised 91.6 in June, the strongest reading since late 2018. The main business climate index ...