This is the moment the US technology superpowers surely knew was coming: The US government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and the other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests. Bloomberg News and other news organisations reported that the US Department of ...

The Chinese have always lived by the saying “better broken jade than intact tile.” This explains why Chinese TV anchor Liu Xin picked out jade earrings and a jade pendant necklace to wear in her much-hyped debate on the US-China trade war with Fox anchor Trish Regan. The meaning of the jewelry, apparent to millions of Chinese who watched the ...

Greece’s banks have staged a spectacular stock market rally this year. Shares of two of the country’s top four lenders – Piraeus Bank SA and National Bank of Greece SA — have more than doubled. The possibility of a change in government has spurred the latest bump — but investors’ optimism may be premature. Fundamentally, little has changed since last ...

Economists tend to categorise countries by their per-capita income levels. The best known is the World Bank’s system, which classifies countries into low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high income, according to the per capita gross national income: Other international development agencies, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations, tend to adopt the World Bank’s taxonomy when distinguishing countries ...

Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley has staked his own personal success on rebuilding the British bank’s securities unit. That pursuit of Wall Street stardom may be leading the firm into treacherous territory. The remnants of a team disbanded years ago is making millions of dollars for the bank by gaming tax loopholes, Bloomberg News reported. The traders arrange ...

Cash is fungible. So if a company suddenly has $1 billion more of it, does it matter where it comes from? For Jaguar Land Rover, it should. In its latest results, the iconic UK car company, owned by Tata Motors Ltd., posted around 1.4 billion pounds of free cash flow ($1.77 billion). That’s a sharp turnaround from a running cash-burn ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has unveiled a revolutionary new drone — part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft — that the company expects to use for test deliveries of toothpaste and other household goods starting within months. The new device takes off vertically, then tilts to fly horizontally like a plane. It also features artificial intelligence, using a suite of sensors the ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc is preparing to buy startup Drive.ai in a small deal that will bring more engineers with experience in autonomous vehicle technology to the iPhone maker, according to people familiar with the matter. It’s unclear how much Apple is paying. Drive.ai has raised about $77 million in funding since it was founded in 2015, and was valued at ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc already sells more food than anyone else. Now it wants to put those groceries right in your fridge. Beginning this fall, about 1 million people in Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Vero Beach, Florida, will be able to get cereal and celery while away from home. Walmart staffers — sporting wearable cameras — will arrive in company-owned cars ...

Bloomberg The weak US May jobs report pushes the Federal Reserve closer to cutting interest rates, though maybe not all the way just yet. While a reduction when policy makers meets later this month can’t be ruled out, Fed watchers said their base case is for the central bank to stand pat. But they said the abrupt slowdown in payrolls ...