Tokyo / AFP Nissan shares soared on Monday as investors cheered the automaker’s plans for a share buyback, after the bloodbath on equity markets at the start of the year hammered its stock. Japan’s number two automaker said after the Tokyo market closed on Friday that it would purchase up to 400 billion yen ($3.5 billion) worth of its own ...

LONDON / Bloomberg Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is urging all of Britain to vote to stay in the European Union in June’s referendum as proponents of quitting the bloc argue that the U.K. would be better off economically if it breaks away. Sturgeon made her case in a speech Monday morning in London. The Scottish National Party leader told ...

London / Bloomberg The U.K. risks a decade of uncertainty if voters choose to leave the European Union in an in-out referendum in June, according to a government report released Monday. The U.K.’s trading arrangements with the EU are unlikely to be completed within the two-year negotiating process stipulated by the Treaty of the European Union, and its commerce with ...