Bloomberg PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was fined $6.6 million for misconduct over its audit of RSM Tenon Group Plc in the largest-ever sanction issued by the UK accounting regulator. The Financial Reporting Council announced the fine Wednesday, along with penalties against Nicholas Boden, a senior PwC audit partner. The misconduct related to an audit of RSM Tenon’s accounts for the year ended …

Bloomberg Italy’s economic recovery extended for a tenth straight quarter, boosting optimism that growth can become sustainable this year amid a rise in industrial production. Gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent in the three months through June, the same as in the first quarter, Rome-based statistics agency Istat said in a preliminary report on Wednesday. That matched the median of …

Bloomberg Volvo AB’s second-quarter operating profit rise 39 percent, buoyed by resilient European demand for trucks and a production cut in the US to adjust for an expected slowdown, while construction-equipment earnings rebounded from a year-earlier provision. Earnings adjusted for one-time items rose to $1.03 billion from 6.13 billion kronor a year earlier, the Gothenburg-based manufacturer said on Wednesday in …