Bloomberg French new car registrations soared 569% in April to 140,428 vehicles, rebounding from a year earlier when the coronavirus pandemic shut showrooms and auto factories. Registrations fall 25% compared with April 2019, showing that the vehicle market hasn’t yet recovered to pre-Covid levels, the CCFA association of carmakers said in a statement. The same trend was evident in the …

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co.’s revenue shrank for a second straight quarter after US sanctions devastated the embattled Chinese tech giant’s smartphone business. Huawei reported a 17% decline in sales to $23 billion in first three months of this year, the company said in a statement. That follows a 11% decline in revenue for the three months ended December. Its profit …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is in talks to sell a 1% stake in state oil giant Saudi Aramco to a “leading global energy company” as he forecast an economic rebound after the coronavirus pandemic. The kingdom is looking at the potential sale — which could be worth about $19 billion, based on the company’s market value — as a way to …