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Russian wheat exports disappoint as low prices slow farmer sales

  Bloomberg Russian wheat exports haven’t lived up to expectations so far this season as falling prices made some growers reluctant to sell grain to traders amid a halt in purchases by Egypt, the world’s largest buyer. Outbound shipments in the three months since the campaign started in July will probably amount to 9 million metric tons, down 8 percent ...

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Default legacy haunts Argentina as German suit looms large

  Bloomberg Argentina is about to find itself in yet another legal dispute with disgruntled creditors. A group of European investors who own defaulted Argentine debt plan to sue the country in Germany as soon as next month after they were excluded from a settlement offer, said Jakob Heichele, a Munich-based attorney at a law firm that bears his name ...

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Brexit may spark ‘substantial’ London home correction: UBS

  Bloomberg London’s housing market faces severe price declines if the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union triggers an extended period of economic weakness, according to UBS Group AG. A severe recession could halt the “unsustainable price growth fueled by ample liquidity and tight supply,” UBS said in a report accompanying its Global Real Estate Bubble Index. London is ...

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