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Bloomberg Euro-area factories are scrambling to add staff as burgeoning orders stretch capacity. A Purchasing Managers Index for the region’s manufacturing industry rose to 58.1 in September from 57.4 the previous month, London-based IHS Markit said on Monday. That compares with a preliminary reading of 58.2 and is the highest level in more than six and a half years. A ...

Bloomberg Square Inc. struck an agreement to process payments for ticketing service Eventbrite and made a strategic investment in the startup, part of the digital-payments company’s push into online commerce, an area dominated by larger players like PayPal Holdings Inc. San Francisco-based Square invested $25 million in Eventbrite, which lets event organisers sell tickets and promote and manage events. Eventbrite, ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. directors plan to vote on Tuesday on board reforms and whether to pursue a major stock deal with SoftBank Group Corp. despite the surprise appointment of two new members by ousted Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, two people familiar with the matter said. Those two coordinated moves could drastically reshape the ride-hailing company’s governance, while officially ...

Bloomberg As Hurricane Harvey poured on Houston, Frank Rodriguez feared for his 2014 GMC Sierra. Once he saw the pickup’s soaking-wet interior and center console full of water, he knew it was a lost cause. He just hoped his insurance company would agree and cut him a check. Despite a dearth of inspectors in southern Texas to review the damage ...

Bloomberg US stocks gained with the dollar, while Treasuries fell as investors assessed the prospect for tax cuts. The euro weakened in the wake of political turmoil in Spain. The S&P 500 Index hovered near a record high to start the fourth quarter, with investors also watching developments in Las Vegas, where at least 50 people have died in the ...

Reuters Most stock markets in the Middle East made small gains on Monday with Egypt hitting yet another all-time high, while the Saudi Arabian index edged down. The Riyadh index lost 0.1 percent; the banking sector was soft with Banque Saudi Fransi dropping 1.3 percent. Shares of telecommunications operator Atheeb, which had been suspended by the capital markets regulator since ...

Bloomberg Banks poised to channel hundreds—if not thousands—of employees out of the UK expect their Brexit bills to reach $500 million or more, according to people with knowledge of firms’ contingency planning. Costs are climbing in part as they find it more difficult than anticipated to persuade reluctant Londoners to move abroad and reckon with a shortage of experienced bankers ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG head John Cryan may face pressure from investors if his turnaround of Germany’s biggest lender fails to show results in the next six months, one of the bank’s largest investors told the Sunday Times. “If we don’t see improvement in the next two quarters, pressure will mount on the management board,” Ingo Speich, a senior portfolio ...

Reuters Egypt’s central bank left its main interest rates unchanged at a meeting of its monetary policy committee, reports said. The bank has raised key interest rates by a total of 700 basis points since it floated the pound in November as part of a $12 billion International Monetary Fund loan programme aimed at boosting the economy. Egypt should get ...

Bloomberg China took action to ensure credit reaches small business, rural borrowers and startups, a move tailored to shore up the economy as a vital political transition approaches. The People’s Bank of China announced that it would reduce the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves from next year, with the size of the cut linked to the ...