Bloomberg German industrial production registered its biggest annual decline in almost a decade, highlighting the severity of the trade-inflicted manufacturing slump in Europe’s largest economy. Output was down 5.2% in June from the previous year, the most since late 2009, when the country was recovering from the Great Recession that followed the global financial crisis. The numbers are the latest ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un said North Korea’s latest missile tests were intended as a warning against ongoing US-South Korea military exercises, while President Donald Trump’s new defense chief defended the training as necessary to maintain readiness. North Korean state media said that Kim personally oversaw what allied military officials said was a pair of short-range ballistic missile launches a day earlier ...

Bloomberg China’s top agencies in charge of Hong Kong affairs held a special meeting across the border in Shenzhen to discuss unrest in the financial hub that’s become a wider challenge to Beijing and raised questions about whether it should intervene more directly. The seminar was jointly held by the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council ...