Vincent Bollore is developing an unfortunate habit of losing. The French billionaire who controls Vivendi SA emerged bruised from the latest round of his battle with former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Bollore has been trying to block the merger of Berlusconi’s Mediaset SpA with its Spanish subsidiary. Vivendi is the second-biggest investor in Mediaset but Bollore has so far ...

India’s plunging auto sales are making investors nervous. Their bigger worry should be the vanishing new roads. The country’s top six automakers reported a 29% decline in August sales. A 45% slump in commercial vehicle sales by Tata Motors Ltd., the No. 1 Indian truck maker, added to the gloom. With GDP growth facing its longest slump since 2012, India ...

The idea of capping rents for five years in Berlin, the city where they have been going up faster than anywhere else in Germany (except much cheaper Leipzig), has always smacked of Communist price controls. Now the Berlin Senate has published a legislative proposal on how a rent ceiling is supposed to work – a clear indication that the leftist ...