President Donald Trump would love nothing more than to announce an end to the trade war with China and relief for the country’s farmers, who have been hit especially hard. But history is likely to get in the way for reasons well beyond his control. In the past century, American agriculture sustained two big boom-and-bust cycles. The current downturn features ...

Homebuilding has been a better bet than the wider construction business in the UK — the former benefits from government subsidies, while the latter is plagued by intense competition for long-run, hard-to-value contracts. Being in both markets has become a headache for Galliford Try Plc. It is now artfully dealing its way out of the problem. Last week, the company ...

Apple is finally getting real. With its most important product category not growing anymore, Apple Inc. confronted its changing circumstances by doing two unusual things: hustling hard and displaying a willingness to change its business model. The hustle is all about Apple’s willingness to do something against its nature: go wide in the number of devices and internet-tethered products it ...

Bloomberg US stocks slipped, oil surged and assets considered to be havens in times of trouble climbed after a strike on Saudi Arabia’s crude production heightened geopolitical risk. A drop in automaker shares helped drag the S&P 500 Index down the most in almost two weeks, even as energy producers climbed. Treasuries advanced with precious metals and the yen. Brent ...

Bloomberg India’s rupee halted a seven-day rally and bonds declined after a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities sent global crude prices soaring by the most on record. The currency fell 0.9 percent to close at 71.5963 per dollar and the benchmark 2029 bond yields rose eight basis points to 6.72 percent. The S&P BSE Sensex gauge of equities ...

Bloomberg Andre Esteves once joked that Banco BTG Pactual SA, the Latin American investment bank powerhouse he helped create, would one day become “better than Goldman” — a play on the firm’s name. Now, BTG is chasing Goldman Sachs Group Inc down another path, looking to build a digital retail bank for the masses. The firm, under the BTG Digital ...

Bloomberg Banks in Denmark have seen their aggregate profits sink this year, according to calculations by the industry’s main lobby group, which has repeatedly urged monetary policy makers to provide relief from long-term negative interest rates. Industry profits fell 20 percent in the first half of this year, Finans Danmark said. Denmark’s 17 biggest banks and mortgage lenders reported after-tax ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s (ECB) latest round of easing sent a signal to institutional investors that their inflation hedges may be growing more pointless by the day. In the northernmost corner of the euro zone, a $51 billion pension fund says ECB President Mario Draghi isn’t giving his industry much hope that things will improve. “So far, the less ...

Bloomberg PJT Partners Inc has hired Bank of America Corp (BofA) dealmaker Antonin Baladi to build up its European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) investment banking business, people familiar with the matter said. The London-based banker is joining PJT in a senior role, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Baladi, who was Bank ...

Bloomberg India’s biggest bank overhaul in decades to merge state-run lenders beset with bad loans and low capital hasn’t convinced investors to increase holdings of the shares. Fund managers including Aberdeen Standard Investments Ltd and JPMorgan Chase & Co are shying away from increasing their positions in government-owned lenders. As well as poor asset quality at the banks, they cited ...