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Bloomberg Nestle SA may buy or sell businesses with combined sales of almost 10 billion francs ($10 billion) as Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider embarks on the biggest overhaul of the world’s largest food company in at least a decade. Selective acquisitions and divestments could affect about 10 percent of total revenue, Schneider told investors as he unveiled his new ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, have more expensive parts, but the company will still make significant profits because it raised prices for the devices, according to research firm IHS Markit. A base model iPhone 8 with a 4.7-inch screen and 64 gigabytes of storage includes material costs of $247.51, up from $237.94 for ...

Bloomberg A week after London moved to revoke Uber Technologies Inc.’s operating license, the company and its electronic ride-hailing competitors are feeling the heat in New York as city officials consider moves to regulate and control the industry. The City Council was considering a six-month study of Uber’s impact on the traditional yellow cab business, where the value of medallions—licenses ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Puerto Rico is in “deep trouble” as devastation brought by Hurricane Maria adds to the crippling debts that have already pushed the US territory into a record-setting bankruptcy. The storm, the worst to batter the island in nearly a century, caused widespread flooding, washed away roads and knocked out power to its 3.4 million residents ...

Bloomberg Hurricanes sometimes don’t need to make landfall to cause problems for US refineries. At least two East Coast refineries are making less gasoline and diesel as rough Atlantic seas hamper the transfer of crude oil from ships to barges for delivery to the facilities, people familiar with operations say. Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc., which operates the largest oil-refining complex ...

Driverless vehicles may not be all that they’re cracked up to be. Indeed, they may be harmful to our collective security and well-being. Unless you’ve been vacationing on Saturn, you know that driverless vehicles are the next Big Thing. Almost every major car company (General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes) has a program, often in cooperation with tech firms. A few ...

India’s digital push has got its timing all wrong. Yes Bank Ltd., one of the nation’s fastest-growing lenders, has cut 12 percent of its workforce, mostly salespeople. When Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, starts a new bank soon, it won’t have any branches. According to BloombergQuint, shop attendants that sell its phones will double as bankers. It ...

Where in the world can you get more than 11 percent from bonds since June and 41 percent from bank stocks this year, with inflation evaporating as the gross domestic product and currency strengthen? That would be Argentina, a financial integrity scofflaw for most of the past century, now bringing a bonanza to global investors. Since he was elected president ...

If there’s a symbol of the breadth of the euro zone’s recovery, it’s Portugal. In 2011, it had to accept an international bailout on punishing terms. Today, three years after graduating from that program, growth and confidence have returned. As if to mark the achievement, S&P Global Ratings just raised Portugal’s sovereign rating to investment grade. This success is real—but ...

Last week, the Commercial Aviation Corp. of China Ltd. (Comac) announced that the C919, China’s first homemade large passenger jet, had chalked up its 730th pre-order. Those numbers won’t necessarily make the Boeing Co. or Airbus SE quake; Boeing estimates Chinese airlines alone will require 5,420 new single-aisle planes by 2036. Ultimately, though, they could herald the end of global ...