Bloomberg General Motors Co. mitigated the effects of significant production cuts it warned were coming by boosting sales of SUVs now and selling Wall Street on the technological transformation it’s making for the future. The automaker led by Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra reported adjusted profit of $1.32 a share for the quarter ended last month, beating the $1.11 average …

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG were inspected by European Union antitrust investigators as the EU stepped up a probe into allegations the German car industry colluded on technology for decades. Just days after raiding BMW AG, EU antitrust officials visited Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg headquarters and its Audi unit’s offices in Ingoldstadt “as part of an announced review,” VW said in …

Bloomberg Initial shipments of Apple Inc.’s new iPhone X will total 20 million units this year, Japanese news service Nikkei reported, without saying how it got the information. That is only about half the total number analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities had forecast the company would be able to ship in 2017. Apple shares fell 1 percent in Frankfurt …