Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter. Google has already shifted much of its production of US-bound motherboards to Taiwan, averting a 25 percent tariff, said the people, asking not to be ...

Bloomberg As China’s car market cools, American manufacturers are among those getting hurt the most. The market share of US brands fell to 9.6 percent in the first five months of 2019 from 10.9 percent a year earlier, the state-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said. German and Japanese brands, meanwhile, gained share in the world’s largest car market. The ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong stock traders have a lot to contend with right now. A trade war between China and the US, a slumping yuan, spiking interbank rates and now street protests that have spilled across the city’s financial district in a repeat of 2014’s Occupy movement. The last two — rates and protests — have combined to snuff out a ...