Bloomberg While the International Monetary Fund has warned that Britain quitting the European Union would be a risk to global financial stability, one of the asset classes most vulnerable to the shock isn’t hearing the alarms, according to Allianz Global Investor’s sterling fund manager. Peripheral euro-area government bonds are underpricing the risks of a Brexit, said Mike Riddell, the …

  Bloomberg The gloom is clearing over Ukraine’s beleaguered consumers. Faced with a war on the border with Russia and a devaluation that sent inflation shooting past 60 percent, crumbling domestic demand kept the economy shrinking for eight straight quarters on an annual basis. A spending revival helped reverse the slump in the first three months of the year, according …

  London / AFP French oil and gas company Total officially launched a project off Britain’s remote Shetland Islands on Monday, hailed by London as a “vote of confidence” in the flagging Scottish North Sea oil and gas industry. The Laggan-Tormore fields are located 600 metres (1,970 feet) under water off Britain’s northernmost outpost. They began production on February 7 …