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Bloomberg Germany’s ruling coalition is planning to more than double net federal borrowing next year to help ease the impact of the energy crisis and steer Europe’s largest economy through an expected recession. The government is targeting net borrowing of €45 billion ($45 billion) in 2023, according to people familiar with the plan, who asked not to be identified discussing ...

  Bloomberg Hiring at US companies rose in October by more than forecast, mainly reflecting a surge in leisure and hospitality and underscoring resilient labor demand despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy. Private payrolls rise 239,000 last month after a revised 192,000 gain in September, according to data from ADP Research Institute in collaboration with Stanford Digital ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc. suspended the $8 subscription program it launched earlier this week to combat a growing problem of users impersonating major brands, a person familiar with the move said. Existing subscribers will still have access to their account, said the person who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The move was reported earlier by the ...

  Bloomberg The UK’s new financial plan will seek to make any recession as short as possible, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said. “I want to make sure that this recession, if we are in one, is as short and shallow as possible,” Hunt said in an interview on Sky News. The UK economy shrinks in the third quarter for the first ...

  Bloomberg Swiss workers face the largest loss in real wages since 1942, with the country likely to dodge a wage-price spiral due to low salary increases, according to a UBS survey. Employers lifted pay by an average 1.1% this year and intend raise them by 2.2% in 2023, 290 surveyed companies told UBS. Taking inflation into account, this translates ...

  Bloomberg A multimonth slide in Toronto home prices slowed in October, as sellers stepped back in hope the market will improve if they wait. The benchmark price for a home in Canada’s largest city fell 1.1% in October to C$1.1 million ($802,217) according to data released Thursday by the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board. That’s the smallest decline in ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. has developed a robot capable of identifying and handling individual items, a milestone in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the human order pickers who currently play a key role in getting products from warehouse shelves to customers’ doorsteps. The robotic arm, tipped by a set of retractable suction devices, is called Sparrow. ...

  Bloomberg ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok has slashed about $2 billion off its target for 2022 ad revenue, underscoring fallout of a global downturn that’s hammered fellow internet giants from Google to Meta Platforms Inc. TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew told a handful of employees that the Chinese-owned app has slashed its ad forecast for 2022 to $10 billion ...

  Bloomberg Europe’s inflation crisis is beginning to catch up with the automakers. Stellantis NV said consumers in Europe are slightly dialling back car purchases, joining Germany’s BMW AG in warning the region is on the backfoot due to surging costs for anything from energy to lending. Carmakers long defied economic headwinds thanks to robust demand for their priciest models, ...

Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. intends to keep expanding capacity in China despite persistent disruption from some of the world’s harshest Covid control measures. The company known as Foxconn intends to raise capital spending in 2023 and the biggest portion of that expenditure will go toward its already giant production base in China, Chairman Young Liu told analysts. Foxconn, ...