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Bloomberg Indonesia is worried about being targeted by Donald Trump in a wider protectionist push, as trade tensions between the US and China continue to escalate, a senior minister said. The Southeast Asian nation’s large trade surplus with the US may invite further scrutiny by the Trump administration even as the spat between the world’s two biggest economies offers potential ...

Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp., fighting to win regulatory clearance for their $26.5 billion merger, are considering possible concessions to salvage the deal, according to people familiar with the situation. Among the top options being discussed is the separation and potential sale of their so-called prepaid businesses, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the ...

Bloomberg Germany’s economy emerged from stagnation at the beginning of 2019, returning to growth despite a slump in manufacturing that could worsen because of escalating global trade tensions. The 0.4% expansion signals some strength across the euro area in the first quarter amid a better-than-expected performance in a number of countries. But industry is under pressure and the region is ...

Bloomberg Sanofi is joining other big pharmaceutical companies in expanding beyond pills and injections into a new frontier of tech-based treatments that doctors can prescribe. Working with partner Happify Health, the French drugmaker is studying a potential digital therapy for patients with depression and multiple sclerosis. That follows the launch last year of a similar type of prescription treatment from ...

Bloomberg It was a symbol of the swagger in London’s luxury home market: a mansion in the trendy Notting Hill neighborhood with a car elevator and a swimming pool that transforms into a ballroom at the touch of a button. But just over a year after Havona House was listed with great fanfare for 25 million pounds ($32.3 million), the ...

Bloomberg British Steel Ltd., one of the UK’s largest steel producers, said it’s in discussions with the government for extra funding to solve a cash crunch caused by Brexit. The money would be in addition to a 120 million pound loan ($156 million) granted by the government to cover the cost of meeting obligations under the European Union’s carbon trading ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo met on the shores of the Black Sea and said they are committed to improving ties between their nations. It won’t be easy. Putin’s 90-minute meeting with Pompeo in the resort city of Sochi represented an initial step towards addressing a wide range of disputes between the two ...

Bloomberg The US drew up a list of associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who could be targeted with sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what would amount to a fallback option if engagement fails to sway the illiberal leader to meet his NATO commitments. The sanctions threat emerged just a day after President Donald Trump praised Orban ...

Bloomberg Theresa May set a date for her final Brexit showdown, promising to bring her deal back to Parliament at the start of June. Talks with the opposition Labour Party haven’t yielded an agreement, but she’s hoping members of parliament, stung by voter revolts, will back her in order to end the process that’s tearing both main parties apart. “It’s ...

Bloomberg Vietnam denied that it held any “prisoners of conscience,” calling an Amnesty International report that said the Communist government is jailing more of its critics “unfounded.” “Amnesty International has deliberately made repeated nonobjective, unfounded judgments based on wrongful information and false prejudices on Vietnam,” Le Thi Thu Hang, spokeswoman for Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), said. “This is ...