Bloomberg Starting in early 2020, a very unlikely anomaly started appearing in global trade data: China said it was selling more goods to the US than the US reported buying from China. That was a reversal of the normal pattern and a product of the two nations’ trade war — but not an intended consequence. Instead, it was likely due ...

Bloomberg Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that faster than expected growth will be key to cutting Italy’s debt burden, which has swelled during the pandemic as the government stepped in to support businesses. “Economic confidence is coming back,” Draghi said addressing lawmakers ahead of the June 24 and 25 European Union summit. “Data is pointing to a stronger than ...

Bloomberg American pharmaceutical distributor McKesson Corp. is exploring a sale of its European business, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would reverse its $8.3 billion purchase of Germany’s Celesio AG in 2014. Phoenix Group, Germany’s largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, which is owned by the billionaire Merckle family, is in talks to acquire the continental European business. ...

Bloomberg Almost half of London companies whose staff can work from home expect them to do so up to five days a week after the pandemic finishes, and smaller businesses are more likely than larger ones to move ahead with remote working. That’s according to a poll of 520 business leaders by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which ...

Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc said it will carve out its consumer unit via a spinoff and cut its dividend by about 30% as Chief Executive Officer Emma Walmsley seeks to revive the pharma giant’s lagging drug business. The UK company will list the unit in mid-2022 on the London Stock Exchange, Glaxo said in a statement Wednesday, before a key investor ...

Bloomberg The euro area’s private-sector economy is growing at its fastest pace in 15 years as coronavirus restrictions are loosened across the region. Surveys of purchasing managers by IHS Markit showed businesses struggling to keep up with demand in June as slowing infection rates allowed services including restaurants to reopen after months of strict lockdowns. Confidence in the economic outlook ...

Bloomberg Stocks were mixed and US equity futures were steady on Wednesday as investors assessed prospects for an economic recovery, while concern eased that faster inflation would spur policy tightening. Treasuries fall. Contracts on all three US equity benchmarks were little changed, after two days of gains for the S&P 500 Index. European equities edged lower as a drop in ...

Bloomberg MicroStrategy Inc sinks, leading a slump in cryptocurrency-exposed stocks, as Bitcoin tumbled below the $30,000 key level for the first time in five months. The enterprise software company fell as much as 12%, its steepest intraday decline since May 19, before closing down 4.5%. Shares of other crypto-linked firms also stemmed their losses as Bitcoin recovered after earlier wiping ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE attaches great importance to protecting the environment in its development policy, an approach it has adopted since 2012 through the ‘UAE Green Growth Strategy’, to transform its economy into a green economy by utilising modern technologies, knowledge, and innovation. The green and digital economy will become the starting point for recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Globalfoundries (GF), the global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, on Tuesday announced it is expanding its global manufacturing footprint with the construction of a new fab on its Singapore campus. In partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board and with co-investments from committed customers, GF’s more than $4B (approximately AED 15bn) investment will play an integral ...