Bloomberg Growth in Mercedes-Benz car deliveries tumbled to the lowest in a decade last year in a swift reversal from double-digit gains after sales in Europe and North America declined. Daimler AG’s luxury brand delivered 2.31 million cars worldwide in 2018, a rise of just 0.9 percent almost entirely driven by China. The small uptick probably was still enough to ...

Bloomberg Union Pacific Corp surged the most since 2009 after hiring a protege of railroading legend Hunter Harrison to guide the company’s shift to a new efficiency strategy. Jim Vena, 60, will become chief operating officer on January 14 and oversee the implementation of precision sche- duled railroading, a system pioneered by Harrison and adopted by Union Pacific late last ...

Bloomberg International Business Machines Corp took another step towards bringing the world of quantum computing to commercial applications — and CEO Ginni Rometty sees real results coming as soon as 2021. “We’re probably in a two- to five-year time frame that you’ll actually start to see commercial businesses doing real commercial applications,” Rometty said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. ...