Bloomberg Only one-quarter of business leaders say their organisations are fully ready for the end of the Brexit transition period, according to a survey by the Institute of Directors. Nearly half of the 978 company directors polled late last month said they weren’t able to prepare for a transition now, and one in seven said they were focused on the ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte kept investors guessing over the fate of toll-road manager Autostrade per l’Italia SpA, ahead of a cabinet meeting due to consider the option of stripping away its highway concessions in a long confrontation with the Benetton family. A decision on the issue which has split the ruling coalition “must involve the entire government,” Conte told ...

Bloomberg China’s investors have waited five years for stock values to return to $10 trillion, a milestone that would seal the market’s recovery from its biggest crash in history. The good news is that it could happen as soon as this week, and even a slower pace of gains — which is favoured by Beijing — would do it. China’s ...