Bloomberg For Kia Motors Corp. Mexico’s historic car boom isn’t working out as planned. A dispute with a recently elected state leader may prevent the start of production next month at a northern Mexico car factory representing more than $1 billion in investment, Kia said on Tuesday. The plant is in the cross hairs of Nuevo Leon Governor Jaime Rodriguez, ...

Bloomberg A year after Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA took a writedown of $2.1 billion because of the sweeping corruption scandal known as Carwash, another state-run company is getting closer to reporting its own price tag from graft losses. The team of lawyers and specialists hired by Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA has finished the bulk of its investigation to ...

Tripoli / AFP Libya’s UN-backed unity government moved to cement control over the country’s finances and institutions on Wednesday after the rival administration in Tripoli ceded power in a boost to efforts to end years of chaos. The concession late Tuesday by the militia-backed administration that had controlled Tripoli since 2014 was a major about-turn for a body that had ...