Bloomberg The election of Donald Trump in the US and the UK’s decision to leave the European Union are heightening economic risk in the euro area, the European Commission said, as it predicted growth would slow this year. In its first set of economic forecasts compiled since Trump’s victory and with the British government gearing up to officially trigger …

  Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. recently ceded its title as the world’s best-selling automaker to arch-rival Volkswagen AG. Yet the Japanese company’s biggest adversary this year may be US President Donald Trump. Japan’s largest automaker expects profit to fall to 1.7 trillion yen ($15.1 billion) for the fiscal year ending next month, about a quarter less than the previous annual …

  Bloomberg The Swiss government must come up with a new plan and figure out how to limit economic fallout after voters rejected its bid to reform corporate taxation to keep the country internationally competitive. Because Switzerland needs to end its current practice of giving thousands of multinationals tax breaks, the government will have to concoct a Plan B to …