Bloomberg Roche Holding AG expects to dodge the worst of the fallout from the expiry of patents on its blockbuster medicines. The Swiss drugmaker is rolling out new treatments such as the cancer immune therapy Tecentriq and wrapping up costly clinical trials for two experimental medicines to soften the blow from competition to its ageing cancer blockbusters. That means …

  Bloomberg BMW AG Chief Executive Officer Harald Krueger defended the importance of free trade, responding to recent remarks by US President Donald Trump suggesting he’ll push for tariffs to protect American jobs. “As a global company, we’re present on all important markets,” Krueger said at an industry conference in Bochum, Germany. “That also means that we allocate automobile value-creation …

  Husum / AP “I’m an athlete, not an adventurer,” says Freya Hoffmeister. But the journeys the extreme paddler undertakes are nothing if not adventurous – and dangerous. Paddling across the estuary of the Amazon in South America on one expedition she was “washed out” of her canoe by the “pororoca,” a tidal wave that can reach heights of 5 …