Bloomberg Workers have almost completed mounting the copper paneling on the American Copper Buildings (née 626 First Avenue), the new tilting, two-towered development on Manhattan’s East Side, but their most striking feature—a three-story, 100-foot-long skybridge—is still open to the elements. A Bloomberg photographer (and a laughably heights-averse reporter) had the chance to take the construction elevator up to the …

  LONDON / Bloomberg UK retail sales fell for a second month in March as Britons bought less of everything from food to clothing. The volume of sales dropped 1.3 percent from February, far more than the 0.1 percent decline forecast in a Bloomberg survey. Sales excluding auto fuel fell 1.6 percent, the most since January 2014. The Office for …

  Reuters Saudi Arabian retailer Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair Co missed analysts’ estimates as it reported a 98 percent fall in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday after its operations made losses and total group sales fell. The company made a net profit of 3.17 million riyals ($845,626.48) in the three months to March 31, down from 201.74 million riyals in the …