Bloomberg Home prices in 20 US cities slowed in October for a seventh consecutive month, extending the longest streak since 2014, a sign of waning demand amid higher mortgage rates and elevated property values. The 20-city index of property values increased 5 percent from a year earlier, after rising 5.2 percent in the prior month, S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data showed. ...

Bloomberg College football won’t go dark on New Year’s Day. Millions of TV customers from Boston to Washington were spared the loss of channels such as ESPN — and popular college football games — after Verizon Communications Inc and Walt Disney Co struck a distribution agreement on the eve of the New Year. The companies reached a broad-based, multiyear agreement, ...

Here’s one New Year’s resolution that should be easy: The United States and North Korea should resume the diplomatic progress they began in 2018 towards peace and denuclearisation. It’s a measure of this year’s turbulent pace that the Singapore summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un just six months ago now seems a distant memory. The promise of ...