Bloomberg The number of Canadians searching for work jumped last month, just as pandemic-related government support programs were wound down, a survey by Indeed Canada showed. The share of people actively looking for employment rose to 30% last month, up from 25% in September, according to a report by the job posting site. The increase was largely driven by unemployed ...

Bloomberg Peru’s gross domestic product expanded 11.4% from a year earlier in the third quarter, the central bank said. The country’s economy was 1.6% larger than in the same quarter of 2019, after it shrank more than 10% last year as a result of the pandemic. Economists had projected third-quarter growth of 10.8%. Peru experienced months of lockdowns last year ...

Bloomberg Ericsson has agreed to buy Vonage Holdings Corp in its biggest-ever deal, a takeover that also concludes a brief but successful activism campaign by Jana Partners. Ericsson’s $6.2 billion all-cash offer for Vonage dwarfs its 1.2 billion pound ($1.6 billion) acquisition for Telent Ltd telecom equipment assets in 2005, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Jana Partners, which owns ...