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Bloomberg European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker demanded Prime Minister Theresa May give more detail about how the UK sees its relationship with the European Union after Brexit. “It’s obvious that we need further clarity if we’re going to reach an understanding on our future relationship,” Juncker told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. “It’s now time to translate speeches into ...

Bloomberg London overtook New York as the biggest real estate exposure for Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund. The fund held 22.8 percent of its real estate portfolio in London, followed by 21.5 percent in New York and 19.1 percent in Paris at the end of 2017, according to a report released on Tuesday in Oslo. At the end of 2016, ...

Bloomberg Some consumer prices that skyrocketed in January probably returned to Earth in February, indicating fears of runaway US inflation that jarred financial markets were overblown. The consumer price index probably rose 0.2 percent in February from the previous month, after a 0.5-percent jump in January, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News ahead of Labor ...

Bloomberg Add co-working giant WeWork Cos. to the growing list of players looking to profit from Toronto’s booming office market. The New York-based company is targeting more than a sixfold surge in Toronto by 2020, bringing its locations in the city to at least 20, according to Dave McLaughlin, WeWork’s general manager for the Northeast. WeWork opened its first locations ...

Bloomberg Grab, the dominant ride-hailing service in Southeast Asia, is close to finalising a deal to acquire Uber Technologies Inc.’s business in the region and may sign a deal this week or next, according to people familiar with the matter. Under terms of the proposed agreement, Grab would buy out Uber’s operations in certain markets in Southeast Asia and Uber ...

Bloomberg Singapore Exchange Ltd. is stepping up efforts to bring technology companies to its market. The bourse last year proposed allowing dual-class shares, a structure favored by tech founders because it lets them keep control after going public. Now SGX wants to loosen some of the recommended restrictions it planned to impose on dual-class listings, such as a minimum market ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. has bought a stake in Wipro Ltd., its first ever purchase of an Indian-based software outsourcer. The New York hedge fund acquired 1.855 million American depositary receipts, or about 0.04 percent of Wipro’s share capital, according to a filing with the US Securities & Exchange Commission. Though tiny when compared with Elliott’s stake ...

Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP says it’s found the formula for making money in India, which has become its top-performing market globally after the firm began focusing on bigger buyout deals. Over the past few years, Blackstone has started concentrating on select sectors like consumer and information technology where it expects India to see the most wealth creation, according to Senior ...

Bloomberg Dropbox Inc. aims to raise as much as $648 million in its US initial public offering. The file-sharing company is marketing 36 million shares of Class A common stock for $16 to $18 apiece, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. At the high end of that range, Dropbox would have a market ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s trade chief dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on car imports, and vowed to “stand up to bullies,” adding to signs that a widening trans-Atlantic rift over protectionism could escalate into an all-out trade war. “In some places, trade has been blamed for the pains of globalization, others use it as a scapegoat ...