Bloomberg U.K. stocks are posting their best performance in eight years, even as polls are increasingly pointing to a potential exit from the European Union. The weakening of the pound and a surge in miners have helped the FTSE All-Share Index erase its annual loss, making it outrun the Stoxx Europe 600 Index by the most since 2008. British ...

  Bloomberg German industrial production rebounded in April in a sign that Europe’s largest economy is benefiting from a pick-up in investment. Output, adjusted for seasonal swings, rose 0.8 percent from March, when it dropped a revised 1.1 percent, data from the Economy Ministry in Berlin showed on Tuesday. In Spain, industrial production was unchanged in April from the previous ...

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut spending plans further and promised increased savings following its record purchase of BG Group Plc as it continues to adjust to the slump in oil prices. Europe’s biggest energy company will spend $29 billion this year, it said on Tuesday. That compares with a May forecast for capital expenditure “trending toward” $30 billion, ...

  Bloomberg Michelin & Cie. plans to accelerate cost savings through 2020 in a bid to match rival tyre manufacturers’ profitability, Chief Financial Officer Marc Henry said. Michelin is targeting spending reductions of €1.2 billion ($1.36 billion) from 2017 through 2020 with job cuts, shifting production outside of Europe, reducing the amount of raw materials used per tyre and introducing ...

  Bloomberg Japan Inc. has $59 billion at stake on the June 23 referendum in the U.K., when Britons vote to either leave or stay in the European Union. That’s the amount Japanese companies have invested in the U.K., which benefits more from the Asian nation than any other country outside Europe apart from the U.S., according to figures compiled ...

Bloomberg   Saudi Arabia plans to cut the public-sector wage bill as well as subsidies by 2020, scaling back the state largess that helped ensure political loyalty in the largest Arab economy. The reductions are a pillar of the National Transformation Program the Saudi cabinet approved on Monday. A major component of the Vision 2030 plan unveiled by Deputy Crown ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is scaling back renewable power targets as the world’s biggest oil exporter plans to use more natural gas, backing away from goals set when crude prices were triple their current level, according to Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih. The kingdom aims to have power generation from renewable resources like the sun make up 10 percent of the ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is cracking down on banks that are lowballing interest rate submissions, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency has written to banks instructing them not to submit levels to the Saudi Interbank Offered Rate that are below what they’re actually willing to lend at, four people said, asking not to be ...

  California / Bloomberg GE Ventures bought a stake in Germany’s Sonnen GmbH to boost its presence in the fast-growing market for battery systems built to store solar power. GE’s unit is paying a “mid double-digit million-euro” sum for a minority stake in the company, according to a statement by Wildpoldsried, Bavaria-based Sonnen. The company said other investors are considering ...

  Oakland / Tribune News Service Southwest Airlines has hit 100 daily departures from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The airline is the airport’s dominant carrier, with about half the market share, and has its own terminal. Its newest nonstop flights are to Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Cleveland. St. Louis passengers already could get to Cleveland and Portland directly on ...