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Berlin beats London for investors buying prime property

Bloomberg If you’re looking to make money at the top of the housing market, head to the tech hubs. Prime properties — broadly defined as the top 5% of residences in a market — in areas like San Francisco, Shenzhen and Berlin have outperformed cities such as New York, Singapore and Paris over the past five years, according to data ...

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Fresh out of power, Mahathir plots Malaysia comeback

Bloomberg Mahathir Mohamad may be at least temporarily out of power, but the 94-year-old leader isn’t going down without a fight. Mahathir’s abrupt resignation kicked off a week of horse-trading that saw his fortunes rise and fall by the hour. He said he had the numbers to form a government, but by late afternoon the king appointed Muhyiddin Yassin — ...

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Trump says first US virus death was ‘high-risk patient’

Bloomberg The first person in the US to die from the novel coronavirus was a man in Washington state, authorities confirmed, after President Donald Trump briefed the nation on his administration’s response and urged people not to panic. Trump, at a press conference at the White House, described the victim was “a medically high-risk patient in her late 50s,” adding ...

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