Bloomberg Europe’s manufacturers headed into the new year on a downbeat note, with expectations for both export orders and employment weakening at the end of a rough 2019. The latest sentiment figures from the European Commission came just hours after Germany reported an unexpected drop in manufacturing orders. That’s a volatile figure, but it adds to signs that Europe’s largest ...

Bloomberg New data shows president Donald Trump may be poised to deliver on one of his biggest economic promises: Reducing the annual US trade deficit with China and the world. Scratch the surface, though, and that accomplishment comes with plenty of caveats attached and even what some economists see as worrying signs for the US economy. November trade data released ...

Bloomberg For Paul Boudre, US president Donald Trump’s push against Chinese telecommunications companies is less about espionage than the race for technological supremacy. Boudre, the chief executive officer of Soitec, a French maker of semiconductor materials that go into 5G equipment, automobiles, cloud computing and IT infrastructure, says Trump’s actions are aimed primarily at allowing American firms to catch up. ...