Bloomberg Euro-area inflation accelerated to the fastest pace since January 2013, providing fresh arguments to those calling for an exit from the European Central Bank’s monetary stimulus program. Consumer prices rose 2 percent in February from a year earlier, the European Union’s statistics agency in Luxembourg said on Thursday. That matched the median estimate of 47 analysts surveyed by ...

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s real estate investing unit plans to sell its stake of almost 12 percent in the London skyscraper known as the Walkie Talkie, according to three people familiar with the plan. China Investment Corp., which owns a portion of the 20 Fenchurch Street building, is considering bidding for the stake, which is valued at about 120 million ...

  Bloomberg Forget email, Slack and the humble telephone. When workers at one Australian company want to talk to colleagues in China, they just turn their heads and look down the “wormhole”. Large screens at the end of each row of desks offer a digital window between offices in Melbourne and Xi’an—7,000 kilometers apart—at real-estate company REA Group Ltd. The ...