Frankfurt / AFP German auto giant Volkswagen said on Monday it would halt production at six plants for several days as a legal dispute with two key suppliers deepened. Around 27,700 workers at factories in Emden, Zwickau, Kassel, Salzgitter, Brunswick, and the firm’s home base of Wolfsburg would see their work hours slashed by the end of August, the …

  Frankfurt / AFP Executives at Uniper, a spin-off business uniting German energy giant EON’s fossil fuel operations, said on Monday the new firm is in good shape for a September stock market debut. “We are very close to the goal,” chief executive Klaus Schaefer told journalists on a conference call. Uniper expects to publish its prospectus in early September …

  Bloomberg Russian wheat prices extended a rebound, capping the best run since April, as farmers charged more for high-protein grain after rains damaged crops there and in major competitor France. Wheat for loading at Black Sea ports rose 1.2 percent from a week earlier to $170 a metric ton as of Friday, Dmitry Rylko, director general of Moscow-based Institute …