AFP Japan’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a mammoth 28-trillion yen ($273 billion) package in its latest attempt to stimulate lacklustre growth, including cash to improve infrastructure and raise the birthrate in the ageing nation. The stimulus plan announced last week is the latest in a series in recent years designed to fire up the world’s number three economy. “We ...

  Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. will redeploy 150 engineers from its China operations to other key markets such as Southeast Asia after agreeing to sell its business in the world’s most populous nation, according to people with direct knowledge of the plan. The San Francisco-based employees will develop new features such as mapping as it boosts services for the region ...

  Bloomberg An investigation of practices at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. found a corporate culture where workers couldn’t push back against management demands and infighting between departments contributed to a fuel-economy manipulation scandal that’s led to a rescue from Nissan Motor Co. It was a systemic failure that led to the cheating and blame can’t be pinned on any one department, ...

  Bloomberg Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. profit fell 33 percent in the second quarter as the nation’s largest phone carrier booked losses for its investment in Germany-based Rocket Internet SE and as earnings from its mobile-phone, data and landline businesses were little changed. Net income was 6.25 billion pesos ($133 million) in the three months ended June, compared with ...

  Bloomberg India’s liquefied natural gas buyers are being encouraged to renegotiate long-term contracts after spot prices tumbled amid a global glut. “We have asked the companies to renegotiate the LNG deals wherever there is a possibility,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in an interview Monday in New Delhi. “I am hopeful our companies will successfully steer the negotiations.” India ...

  Bloomberg China’s airlines, rushing to pare dollar debt as a weakening yuan adds to servicing costs, are selling local-currency bonds at the fastest pace since 2009 to trim their exposure to the greenback. The nation’s carriers, led by China Eastern Airlines Corp., have sold a combined 106.3 billion yuan ($16 billion) of bonds in the first seven months of ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s average ticket prices fell in the second quarter as a drop in demand stemming from terrorist attacks in Europe was met by too much seating across the airline industry. Yields excluding currency fluctuations, a measure of average fares, declined 0.8 percent in the second quarter, the German carrier said Tuesday. That caused unit revenue, the ...

  Bloomberg IndiGo, the biggest customer for Airbus Group SE’s A320neo jets, is considering slowing deliveries of the single-aisle aircraft to give supplier Pratt & Whitney more time to make improvements to the model’s engines. Shares fell in Mumbai. The Indian carrier may seek the delivery slowdown “to allow Pratt & Whitney to catch up on the production of upgraded ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. pilots called for the replacement of Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly, saying a nationwide computer outage that grounded the carrier last month capped a list of problems caused by a “misguided focus” on cost control and stock performance. “We can no longer sit idly by and watch poor decision after poor decision deeply affect our ...

  Bloomberg Allianz SE completed a deal to acquire a stake of 10 Hudson Yards that values the skyscraper on Manhattan’s far west side at $2.15 billion, marking one of the city’s largest real estate transactions this year. A New York-based unit of Europe’s largest insurer contributed about $420 million in cash, and was part of a group that took ...