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Bloomberg The US would be ready to talk with North Korea if it renounced further nuclear or missile tests and followed through on the pledge, US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said. “If they announce that they’re not going to be doing any more nuclear tests and they’re not going to be launching any more missiles,” Branstad told Bloomberg Television ...

Bloomberg A seven-year-old US startup is set to become the biggest private tenant in London just as the UK’s economic outlook worsens. Three years after entering the British capital, WeWork Cos. has signed leases that will make it the city’s No 1 private-sector user of office space, according to data compiled by CoStar Group Inc. for Bloomberg. The rapid growth ...

Bloomberg Telecom Italia SpA Chief Executive Officer Amos Genish expects to restore the credit rating of Italy’s former phone monopoly to investment grade next year, potentially opening up a cheaper source of financing and a wider pool of investors. Genish plans to demonstrate progress in 2018 on Telecom Italia’s goal of lowering debt to 2.7 times its earnings before interest, ...

Bloomberg Britain announced plans to generate savings of as much as 15 billion pounds ($20 billion) a year by improving productivity in sectors such as construction and transport. New programmes to increase efficiency were published alongside the government’s 600 billion-pound infrastructure pipeline, which sets out a series of publicly and privately funded projects over the next 10 years, the Treasury ...

Bloomberg China is upending the global plastics market. The world’s biggest user of scrap has stopped accepting shiploads of other countries’ plastic trash as it phases in a new ban. That’s bad news for the recycling industry, as China has been a major consumer of salvaged materials it processes into resin that ends up in pipe, carpets, bottles and other ...

Bloomberg Global stocks pared the worst of their losses after a selloff in Asia amid a broad risk-off mood. Treasuries rose with the dollar as investors’ focus turned to efforts to avert a US government shutdown . The S&P 500 fluctuated as software companies advanced and automotive stocks declined. The MSCI World index pared losses of 0.4 percent, with the ...

Reuters Most Middle Eastern stock markets fell on Wednesday because of sliding foreign bourses and negative geopolitical news related to Qatar and Yemen. Qatar was the hardest hit major market, with its index dropping 1.5 percent. Qatar National Bank, the biggest bank, tumbled 3.3 percent, while drilling rig provider Gulf International Services sank 6.5 percent. To prevent the switch, which ...

Bloomberg Investor exhaustion with poor returns from the oil and gas industry may mean less financing to expand the US shale boom next year, and less of a drive for consolidation. After nearing a record in 2016, equity issues from US oil and gas companies are on pace for an eight-year low this year, amid doubts about the stability of ...

Bloomberg First Solar Inc. took the wraps off its long-awaited Series 6 panel, but isn’t turning its back on the workhorse model that’s been sustaining the company. Unexpected demand for its Series 4 product boosted 2017 revenue, especially in the second half, and will help the company earn as much as $2.30 a share in a year when it had ...

Bloomberg Oil exploration in Norway’s Arctic seems to have lost some of its appeal after a disappointing drilling campaign. Only 11 companies applied for exploration licenses in the latest round — the nation’s 24th — which focused heavily on the Barents Sea, the Petroleum and Energy Ministry said in a statement on its website. That’s down from 26 in the ...