Bloomberg Chinese industrial profits rose 14 percent in April from a year earlier as global trade increased. Industrial profits climbed to 572.8 billion yuan ($83.6 billion) last month, the National Bureau of Statistics said. That compares with a jump of 23.8 percent in March, and an 8.5 percent increase last year. Output in the world’s largest manufacturing nation is booming ...

Bloomberg Japan’s core consumer inflation gauge rose for a fourth month in April, the longest run of gains since mid-2015, but it’s far below target and weak underlying price pressures point to limited gains ahead. Highlights of CPI report Consumer prices excluding fresh food increased 0.3 percent in April from a year earlier, the fastest pace since April 2015 (estimate ...

Bloomberg Western Australia may ask Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd. to pay potentially billions of dollars to end a mining rent tax to help patch a budget decimated by lower commodity prices. The state government is seeking advice on a proposal that would see the nation’s two biggest miners pay out an iron-ore levy early in a one-off ...

Bloomberg Not everything Elon Musk touches has been a runaway sales success. While Tesla Inc.’s Model S has been a hit and thousands lined up to order the upcoming Model 3 sedan, the Model X sport utility vehicle hasn’t met the chief executive officer’s expectations. Model X deliveries have yet to keep pace with the Model S, as Musk predicted, ...

Bloomberg In the diamond industry, the only place that really matters is the US, and the market is starting to look a little shaky. In a country where consumers buy almost half the world’s gems, Tiffany & Co. and Signet Jewelers Ltd. this week reported disappointing sales. That’s a blow to expectations that President Donald Trump’s pro-business policies would give ...

Bloomberg Two shareholder advisory firms have recommended support for current General Motors Co. board members and against creating a dual share class, proposals advanced by activist investor David Einhorn to boost the automaker’s stock. “The dissident has not made a compelling case that change at the board level focusing on the implementation of its proposal is warranted,” Institutional Shareholder Services ...

Bloomberg The Swedish and New Zealand housing markets are the most at risk of a correction among the so-called G-10 economies, according to Goldman Sachs. In a report on house prices in G-10 nations — those with the 10 most-traded currencies in the world — Goldman finds they are most elevated in small, open economies such as Sweden and New ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump continued to distance himself from fellow world leaders over climate change at the G-7 summit, and said he’ll determine next week whether to pull the US out of the landmark Paris climate accord. “I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week,” the president told his almost 31 million Twitter followers on Saturday. While ...

Bloomberg Jacob Zuma is fighting to remain South Africa’s president as the top leadership of the ruling African National Congress resumed its debate of a proposal to recommend his removal from office. The debate started on Saturday in the capital, Pretoria, according to five members of the party’s national executive committee who asked not to be identified because they aren’t ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May said her government would set up a commission to combat non-violent extremism and promote “pluralistic” British values and women’s rights, as the fight against terrorism becomes a focus of the election campaign. The proposed Commission for Countering Extremism, introduced in the Conservative manifesto earlier this month, would have legal status and advise the government on ...