Bloomberg Business

The world risks losing its battle to end hunger by the end of the decade, despite signs that the crisis has stopped worsening.

A coalition of conservative groups urged Senate Republicans to vote against Federal Trade Commission nominee Melissa Holyoak due to her alleged “ties” to the country’s largest tech companies.

The gap between VMware Inc.’s stock price and the value of Broadcom Inc.’s proposed takeover narrowed to the smallest in two months, signaling diminished worries that the $61 billion merger will be derailed by regulators.

Democrats unsuccessfully sought an immediate US House inquiry into whether Republican lawmakers leveling accusations of corruption against presidential son Hunter Biden were misled by an informant who is now charged with working secretly for the Chinese Communist Party.

Executives from the likes of Volkswagen AG and Ericsson AB are calling on the European Union to remove cumbersome bureaucracy that’s putting the region at risk of falling behind in the intensifying race to attract clean-energy investments.

The US inflation rate slid to a more than two-year low, a major step toward ending the cost-of-living emergency — and possibly the Federal Reserve’s historic monetary tightening, too.

Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil rose to the cusp of a price cap that Group of Seven nations imposed in an effort to cut the Kremlin’s funding for the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wagner mercenaries surrendered thousands of weapons including battle tanks following the mutiny that became the most serious threat to President Vladimir Putin’s 24-year rule.