Bloomberg Yahoo Japan Corp. jumped the most since 2013 after quarterly earnings beat estimates on strong growth in advertising and online shopping from smartphones. Shares surged as much as 17 percent intraday in Tokyo and hit their daily upper price limit. They were 15 percent higher as of 10:35 a.m. — adding about $3.4 billion in market value. Operating …

  Bloomberg Brexit has already damaged businesses even before Prime Minister Theresa May triggers the start of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, according to a survey of the country’s largest companies. More than half — 58 percent — of the top executives at Britain’s biggest firms that responded to the Ipsos MORI “Captains of Industry” poll said the vote …

  Bloomberg German factory orders rose the most in two and a half years in December amid a surge in investment-goods demand, suggesting that the strong run of Europe’s largest economy at the end of the year is set to continue. Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, gained 5.2 percent from November, when they fell a revised 3.6 percent, …