Bloomberg If the UK can’t guarantee European citizens now working there that their lives will be unaffected by Brexit, then those people should look for jobs in Denmark. The Confederation of Danish Industry, which represents about 10,000 corporations, says now is the time to try to attract that demographic to the Scandinavian country and help deal with a severe labour ...

Bloomberg Procter & Gamble Co. may have prevailed in its proxy fight against activist investor Nelson Peltz, but the contentious showdown has left its investors as divided as ever. The world’s largest consumer-products company said that Peltz fell short of the votes needed to be elected to the board, based on preliminary results. But the investor isn’t going quietly: His ...

Bloomberg Shortly after taking over Uber Technologies Inc. in September, Dara Khosrowshahi told employees to brace for a painful six months. US officials are looking into possible bribes, illicit software, questionable pricing schemes and theft of a competitor’s intellectual property. The very attributes that, for years, set the company on a rocket-ship trajectory—a tendency to ignore rules, to compete with ...

Bloomberg The US ambassador to Turkey said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is engaged in talks to try and resolve a major diplomatic break between the two NATO allies, sparking a rally in the Turkish lira even as the envoy said he couldn’t predict the outcome of those efforts. Speaking to reporters at his residence in Ankara, Ambassador John ...

Bloomberg Kenya is bracing for street protests as the East African nation awaits the electoral commission’s response to opposition leader Raila Odinga’s decision to withdraw from a presidential vote rerun that’s threatening a constitutional crisis. Opposition supporters gathered on Wednesday in the capital, Nairobi, and in the western city of Kisumu to join demonstrations called to protest what Odinga said ...

Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said he will start releasing more money to help the government prepare for a “no deal” Brexit if there aren’t clear signs of progress in talks with the EU by early 2018. “There will be some areas where we need to start spending money in the new year if we can’t tell ...

Bloomberg The techno soldiers of Kim Jong Un are growing more aggressive in defending North Korea’s supreme leader against threats from Donald Trump and South Korea. The country’s hackers stole military plans developed by the US and South Korea last year that included a highly classified “decapitation strike” against the North Korean leader, according to a South Korean lawmaker. The ...

Bloomberg Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stepped up pressure on Catalonia to halt its drive for independence, taking the first step in a process that could strip the region’s separatist government of its limited autonomy and impose direct control from Madrid. Rajoy, speaking after an emergency session of his ministerial team, said the cabinet had agreed to issue a formal ...

Bloomberg Election officials in Liberia started counting ballots after polling stations closed in presidential and parliamentary elections that regional observers said were conducted peacefully. Liberians chose a president to replace Nobel Peace Price laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from among 20 candidates who include a retired soccer star, a former warlord and a wealthy chicken farmer. The turnout among the 2.1 ...

Critics have complained about President Trump’s bombast on foreign policy, but some GOP insiders worry about a less visible problem—a hollowed-out bureaucracy that has been slow to develop and implement strategy. Skeptics say that on major issues—Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Russia—the Trump administration hasn’t explained clear, systematic plans for achieving results. Even where there seems to be a coherent diplomatic ...