Bloomberg Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel will cut production in the UK and idle some sites, as soaring energy costs threaten hundreds of jobs across the group. Steel output at Liberty’s electric arc furnace in Rotherham will be reduced and replaced with imports from abroad. Two of the Liberty’s downstream production units — including a rolling mill in Newport — …

  Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is bracing for weaker-than-expected sales by reducing spending, deepening concerns the technology industry’s slump is yet to bottom. The chip giant signaled this quarter could mark its first revenue drop in four years. But executives forecast slight growth for the full year on an expected recovery in demand for server chips. The company is …

Bloomberg Infosys Ltd. raised its annual sales forecast, remaining upbeat on enterprise clients’ need to upgrade their software and shrugging off fears of a global economic downturn. Infosys said on Thursday it expected revenue to grow between 16% to 16.5% in the year to March, compared with the 15% to 16% growth it projected in October. Analysts on average expect …