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Bloomberg Scandal-hit Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces one of the biggest tests of his four and a half years in power, after his ruling party lost to an upstart outfit in an election for Tokyo’s assembly. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as projected to win its lowest number of seats ever in the capital in a poll that can be ...

Bloomberg South African President Jacob Zuma lashed out at critics within his African National Congress, saying they’re threatening the ruling party’s hold on power. “Factionalism is a cancer that must be rooted out,” Zuma, 75, said Friday in his opening address to a six-day ANC conference in Johannesburg that will discuss issues ranging from land reform and ownership of the ...

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc. said that the European Commission’s recent antitrust fine will reduce second-quarter profit by about $2.74 billion. The company plans to report the fine in a separate operating expense line on its income statement. It’s not tax deductible, so the charge will reduce Alphabet’s net income and earnings per share by the full $2.74 billion amount, it said ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, has announced that work is progressing in seven infrastructure projects at the area of Abu Dhabi east, as part of Musanada’s efforts to achieve the objectives of Abu Dhabi Plan, delivering sustainable infrastructure that will serve Emirate’s community and economy in line with best international standards and reinforce Abu Dhabi’s ...

Bloomberg South Korea must give US automakers “a fair shake” to sell more cars there and stop exporting “dumped steel,” President Donald Trump told his counterpart Moon Jae-in during talks at the White House. After meeting with Moon, Trump emphasized he’ll press for changes to the current free-trade agreement to reduce the US trade deficit with South Korea. He told ...

Bloomberg China’s official factory gauge concluded the first half of the year on a robust note, the latest evidence of stable momentum that gives policy makers room to continue defusing financial risks. The manufacturing purchasing managers index increased to 51.7 in June, beating all estimates compiled by a Bloomberg survey of economists, and the 51.2 reading in May. The non-manufacturing ...

Bloomberg China’s hidden debt risks are back in the spotlight this week. A chemical maker in the eastern province of Shandong had trading of its bonds suspended amid uncertainty over its operating performance. That triggered a slump in the dollar bonds of a neighboring company that had guaranteed the other’s debt. China’s privately held firms have relied on extending such ...

Bloomberg The pressure on consumers from the soaring cost of living was laid bare as Britain published its most complete picture of the economy in the first three months of the year. Britons saved a smaller proportion of their incomes than at any time on record and household incomes adjusted for inflation fell for a third straight quarter, the longest ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump hasn’t decided yet whether to impose punitive measures on steel imports for reasons of national secur- ity, as the administration missed a self-imposed deadline to conclude its investigation. While the Commerce Department has until early next year to determine whether foreign-made steel threatens US security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, Secretary Wilbur Ross ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping warned a divided Hong Kong that challenges to China’s rule wouldn’t be tolerated and said the city’s leaders must find new ways to profit from Chinese economic clout. Xi’s stern speech on Saturday — at a ceremony in which he swore in Carrie Lam, 60, as Hong Kong’s first female chief executive — capped a three-day ...