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‘Takata engineers manipulated air-bag test data’

  Bloomberg Takata Corp., the air-bag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of air-bag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor Co., according to an ongoing audit commissioned by the parts maker and its biggest customer. Takata engineers removed some test results to artificially reduce variability in air-bag inflator performance, Brian O’Neill, a former Insurance Institute for ...

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Turkey’s turmoil slows down pace of interest rate cuts

  Bloomberg Turkey’s central bank slowed the pace of interest rate cuts at its meeting on Tuesday after the failed coup attempt triggered a sell-off in the currency and sovereign debt. The bank lowered its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points, which fell short of the 50-basis-point cuts it delivered during the past three meetings but matched the median ...

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Truckmakers get record $3.24bn EU fine

  Bloomberg Truckmakers, including Daimler AG and Paccar Inc.’s DAF Trucks, agreed to pay European Union regulators a record €2.93bn ($3.24 bn) in fines for fixing truck prices over 14 years. Daimler got the largest penalty of €1.01 billion and DAF will pay €752.7 million as part of a settlement with the European Commission that cut potential fines by at ...

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