Bloomberg Takata Corp., the air-bag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of air-bag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor Co., according to an ongoing audit commissioned by the parts maker and its biggest customer. Takata engineers removed some test results to artificially reduce variability in air-bag inflator performance, Brian O’Neill, a former Insurance Institute for ...

  Bloomberg Turkey’s central bank slowed the pace of interest rate cuts at its meeting on Tuesday after the failed coup attempt triggered a sell-off in the currency and sovereign debt. The bank lowered its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points, which fell short of the 50-basis-point cuts it delivered during the past three meetings but matched the median ...

  Bloomberg Truckmakers, including Daimler AG and Paccar Inc.’s DAF Trucks, agreed to pay European Union regulators a record €2.93bn ($3.24 bn) in fines for fixing truck prices over 14 years. Daimler got the largest penalty of €1.01 billion and DAF will pay €752.7 million as part of a settlement with the European Commission that cut potential fines by at ...

  Bloomberg U.K. inflation accelerated more than economists forecast in June, boosted by airfares on trips to continental Europe. The rate rose to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent in May, the Office for National Statistics said in London on Tuesday. Economists had expected 0.4 percent, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food ...

  Bloomberg Ericsson AB will accelerate cost cuts after posting sales that missed analysts’ estimates, as Chief Executive Officer Hans Vestberg battles waning demand for mobile-network gear. Ericsson said it will reduce research and development spending and try to reap efficiency gains from a new company structure. Second-quarter sales fell 11 percent to 54.1 billion kronor ($6.3 billion) as phone ...

  Bloomberg The pace of North Sea oil-field shutdowns is picking up as the impact of the market slump is compounded by the uncertain investment environment created by Brexit. Projected spending on decommissioning in the British sector in the decade to 2024 has risen to 16.9 billion pounds ($22.4 billion), according to Oil & Gas U.K., an industry group. That’s ...

  Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund scrapped its forecast for a pickup in global growth this year, citing Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and warned the damage could worsen if confidence falters among investors and companies. The IMF sees global gross domestic product rising 3.1 percent this year, down from April’s 3.2 percent projection and equal to growth ...

  Bloomberg Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, said Bayer AG’s latest $55 billion takeover offer is “financially inadequate” and doesn’t ensure a deal would be completed. Monsanto also said in a statement on Tuesday that it’s still open to further “constructive conversations” with the German company and other parties about a deal. Bayer said on Thursday it upped ...

  Bloomberg Volvo AB cut its outlook for the North American truck market for the third time this year after stagnant freight volumes and excess inventory drove orders in the region down by nearly one-third in the second quarter. Truck orders in North America fell 29 percent, and manufacturers as a whole will probably sell about 240,000 vehicles there this ...

  Bloomberg If there’s one industry where all of Brazil’s political and economic upheavals come together, it’s shipbuilding. A Rio de Janeiro shipyard, where suspended president Dilma Rousseff once promised to employ an army of welders, electricians and engineers to make offshore oil platforms, is all but shut. Every other day, 50 workers on average hand in their helmets and ...