Bloomberg Canada’s economy posted record job gains in April, along with a pick-up in wages, in the strongest sign yet the nation’s economy has emerged from a soft patch. Employment rose by 106,500 in April, Statistics Canada said in Ottawa, the biggest one-month increase in data going back to 1976. Economists had forecast employers would add about 12,000 positions. The ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Telekom AG posted higher operating profit in the first quarter, propelled by forecast-beating US growth that’s making up for slower momentum back home in Germany, where Europe’s biggest phone company faces emerging competitive threats. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation after leases grew 8.3% to 5.94 billion euros ($6.65 billion). The figure, which eliminates accounting changes ...

Bloomberg BT Group Plc’s new boss Philip Jansen kept the phone company’s dividend in the face of declining profits while committing to the turnaround begun by his predecessor. Jansen said earnings would fall this year and BT needed to be “more competitive” as he laid out plans to accelerate a fibre network rollout. The dividend pledge was a relief for ...