Bloomberg UK Business Secretary Greg Clark wrote to Nissan Motor Co. setting out four key assurances, including a pledge to seek tariff-free access to the European Union market in a post-Brexit deal, to persuade the company to make a new investment at a plant in northeast England. “What I said is that our objective would be to ensure that …

  AP United States companies are cutting merger deals at a record pace even though antitrust regulators have moved to oppose several recent high-profile combinations. So far this month, companies have agreed to mergers and acquisitions valued at more than $251 billion, financial-information provider Dealogic said. That surpasses the previous record of $240 billion in July 2015. Last week alone …

  Bloomberg French growth rebounded in the third quarter as part of a start-stop expansion that leaves Europe’s second-largest economy lagging its neighbors such as Spain. Gross domestic product in France expanded 0.2 percent in the three months through September after shrinking 0.1 percent in the previous period, national statistics office Insee said. That compares with a 0.3 percent increase …