Bloomberg A group led by Brazil’s Itausa Investimentos SA offered about $850 million for Petrobras’s bottled gas distributor. Petrobras said in a filing that Itausa, the holding company for Setubal and Villela families, in a consortium with Copagaz Distribuidora de Gas Ltda and Nacional Gas Butano, offered highest bid for Liquigas Distribuidora SA. The supplier of liquefied petroleum gas for ...

Bloomberg Deep in Europe’s manufacturing core, a German company is taking radical steps to cope with a perfect storm that has sent traditional economic pillars into a tailspin and put the country on the verge of recession. Huebner GmbH — a 73-year-old supplier of rubber and plastics that employs 3,300 people around the world — is selling its unit that ...

Bloomberg The US and Japan have agreed in principle on a trade deal that will include Japanese purchases of US agriculture products, US President Donald Trump said. Trump and Japan’s Shinzo Abe made the announcement on Sunday in Biarritz, France, at the Group of Seven summit after holding a bilateral meeting earlier in the day. “We’ve agreed in principle,” Trump ...