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Bloomberg Hong Kong’s government maintained its forecast for gross domestic product growth this year at between 2 percent and 3 percent, as the city grapples with the fallout from the trade war between the US and China. In a release revising up first quarter GDP growth to 0.6 percent from a year ago, the government said the outlook is currently ...

Bloomberg BandLab Technologies, a Singapore-based social music platform, has agreed to acquire British music magazines NME and Uncut from TI Media for an undisclosed amount to expand its global music media business. NME, which started as a British weekly in 1952, has evolved into a digital brand. The deal, which includes the brands’ social, digital and print assets, is expected ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US will lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico, boosting efforts to encourage lawmakers to ratify a new North American trade deal. “I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico and will be selling our product into those countries without the imposition of tariffs or major ...

Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc. gave a bullish sales and profit forecast for the current period, a sign that corporations continue to spend on their computer networks despite concern that a trade dispute between China and the US will slow global economic growth. Sales in the fiscal fourth quarter will increase 4.5% to 6.5% from the same period a year earlier, ...

Bloomberg The number of vacant jobs in Norway rose to the highest in at least a decade, underscoring the strength of momentum in the oil-rich economy after the central bank flagged another interest rate increase will come again in June. The number of vacancies, seasonally adjusted, rose to 71,800 in the first quarter, Statistics Norway said. That beat a previous ...

Bloomberg BMW AG’s chief executive officer defended his track record at the company’s annual meeting, highlighting a luxury lead in the US and sales growth through a Chinese downturn, even as the carmaker battles to reverse weaker margins. BMW is struggling alongside rivals with a drop in demand after years of auto-industry growth, and record spending for a technology transition. ...

Bloomberg Australian PM Scott Morrison’s conservative government appeared poised to claim a come-from-behind victory in Australia’s election against the left-leaning Labor party. While opinion polls had pointed to a Labor win, with more than half the votes counted the Australian Broadcasting Corp predicted the Liberal-National coalition would form government, though it remained unclear whether it would get the 76 seats ...

Bloomberg Indonesian police have arrested dozens of extremists linked to IS, who authorities said were plotting attacks next week on political rallies outside the nation’s election commission office during the announcement of the official result of the presidential vote. Most of the 29 suspects detained in the past two weeks were former IS extremists, who fought for several years in ...

Bloomberg Austria may be headed for snap elections after the center-right government stumbled over a video showing the vice chancellor promising government contracts in return for campaign funding. The ball is in the court of conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz after Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from the nationalist Freedom Party, stepped down, calling his own actions “dumb” and “embarrassing.” Kurz is ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel is feeling pressure from her chosen successor to quit as German chancellor after this month’s elections for the European parliament, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. With Merkel’s Christian Democrats expected to lose ground in the May 26 vote, their leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, sent a message to Merkel urging her to resign and called ...