Bloomberg Business

The European Union’s Green Deal plans are once again facing pushback from a junior party within Germany’s governing coalition.

Bond traders weighing the impact of higher rates, debt ceiling worries and a possibly imminent recession may want to heed BlackRock’s Rick Rieder, who isn’t letting these things ruin a good time.

The UK’s surprise decision to stop the Microsoft Corp. $69 billion Activision Blizzard Inc. deal in its tracks shows a more muscular approach to deal enforcement that’s come into its own since Brexit.

Alignment Growth Management, the investment firm backing the business information website Crunchbase, has closed its first fund at $360 million.

The UK disputed criticism by Microsoft Corp. after the country’s antitrust watchdog blocked a proposed $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard Inc.

Germany is in talks to limit the export of chemicals to China that are used to manufacture semiconductors as Berlin steps up efforts to reduce its economic exposure to the Asian nation.

C.S. Venkatakrishnan said UK banks have weathered the turmoil impacting smaller US lenders, with deposits at his firm growing over the first quarter.

China Life Insurance Co., the nation’s largest life insurer by market share, said first-quarter profit rose 18% as the industry recovered from woes brought by the Covid pandemic.