Bloomberg Bayer AG is set to win US antitrust approval for its $66 billion takeover of Monsanto Co. by next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, removing the last major regulatory hurdle to forming the world’s biggest seed and agricultural-chemicals company. The companies and the Justice Department have negotiated a complex agreement that would resolve government’s concerns ...

Bloomberg Automakers including Mazda Motor Corp. and countries led by Mexico should buckle up: their car businesses could be in for a bumpy ride, thanks to US President Donald Trump. Trump instructed his Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to consider conducting an investigation into whether auto imports are weakening the American economy and may impair national security. The Commerce Department said ...

Bloomberg The poster boy for London’s two-tier property market may be split in two. The board of Capital & Counties Properties Plc is considering dividing the company into a landlord that owns much of the Covent Garden neighborhood and a developer that owns land in the Earls Court district. Both companies would be publicly traded if the demerger goes ahead, ...