Bloomberg Swedish right-wing opposition parties are stepping up negotiations on forming a new government, after Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tendered her resignation on Thursday. The Social Democrat leader has conceded defeat in Sunday’s election, and Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson will now try to forge an agreement with three parties that backed his candidacy. They include the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, ...

  Bloomberg US railroads and unions reached a tentative deal on Thursday, a breakthrough that looks to avert a labour disruption that risked adding supply-chain strains to the world’s largest economy. After 20 straight hours in the latest round of talks — which included President Joe Biden and other administration officials — the companies and union negotiators reached a preliminary ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp’s planned $69 billion purchase of computer games developer Activision Blizzard Inc faces an in-depth probe in the UK after regulators said the deal could hamper competition. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it decided to kickstart a longer review after Microsoft turned down the chance to offer remedies to address its concerns. “Microsoft informed the ...