Bloomberg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lashed out at the US and its allies as a dispute over Washington’s refusal to issue some visas for officials from Russia attending the UN General Assembly fuelled tensions between the former Cold War enemies. Lavrov said he raised the issue with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo after a dozen members of Russia’s delegation ...

Bloomberg Austria’s snap elections have descended into the political equivalent of “The Bachelor” dating show, with a string of contestants fighting to partner with Sebastian Kurz in his comeback as chancellor. The far-right Freedom Party, Kurz’s ally in the previous administration, has made the most blatant play, running ads showing chief Norbert Hofer and a Kurz lookalike in couples therapy. ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp is boosting its stake in Subaru Corp to about a fifth of the smaller automaker, as Japan’s biggest car company arms itself for a future of self-driving vehicles, electric cars and evolving transport services. Subaru, the maker of Forester and Outback wagons, will also take a stake in Toyota, strengthening their capital ties and collaboration, according ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp is tapping Marcelo Claure to help turn around WeWork, after ousting co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Adam Neumann from the corner office earlier this week. Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank, WeWork’s largest investor, has asked the former chief executive officer of Sprint Corp to take a more hands-on role helping oversee a cleanup of the ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s economic growth quickened in the third quarter, underpinned by solid growth in exports and manufacturing. Gross domestic product rose 7.31 percent from a year earlier, up from a revised 6.73 percent in the second quarter, the General Statistics Office in Hanoi said on Saturday. That compared to a median estimate of 6.7 percent in a Bloomberg survey of ...

Bloomberg Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India’s largest hospital chain, is considering passing on the proceeds of corporate tax cuts announced to its shareholders, according to people familiar with the matter. Apollo may also use some of its tax savings to pay down debt and invest in the business, which operates 71 hospitals throughout India, said the people, who asked not ...

Bloomberg Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd was set for the biggest drop in more than a week after the Delhi High Court agreed to hear a petition to investigate the financier. The petition alleged that Indiabulls Housing gave “dubious loans” worth billions of rupees to shell companies through firms owned by the group’s founders “to increase their personal wealth.” The company ...

Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV agreed to pay a $40 million penalty related to years of sales reports the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said were fraudulent. The Italian-American automaker issued statements that misled investors by wrongly claiming monthly gains, the SEC said. Fiat Chrysler inflated results by paying dealers to report fake sales. The company also maintained a ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party will pledge funding for electric cars, fusion power and new green spaces at its conference next week, in the latest sign of how British political parties are fighting for environmentally friendly votes. The Conservative annual conference, which kicked off in Manchester, North West England, is likely to be dominated by Brexit. But the party is ...

Bloomberg Nestle SA is increasing checks on the coffee it buys, after recent tests showed beans from some countries had levels of the weedkiller glyphosate that are close to a regulatory limit. The world’s largest coffee roaster has informed suppliers of Indonesian and certain Brazilian beans of the new procedures, which go into effect starting from October 1, according to ...