Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s Spanish asset-management unit is buying a shopping mall in Barcelona for 493 million euros ($547 million) from Northwood Investors LLC. The Diagonal Mar mall has shops operated by companies including Primark Stores Ltd. and Hennes & Mauritz AB and comprises 90,000 square meters (969,000 square feet) of leasable space, Deutsche Asset Management said in a ...

  Bloomberg The French economy is set to return to growth this quarter, the nation’s central bank said, as President Francois Hollande aims to cement a turnaround ahead of next year’s general election. Gross domestic product will rise 0.3 percent in the three months through September, the Bank of France (BoF) said on Monday. That’s more optimistic than economists in ...

  Bloomberg Uganda’s central bank reduced its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points for a third consecutive time, to 14 percent, citing an unfavorable growth outlook due to global economic uncertainty. While warning that drought may hurt food prices, a major component on the inflation index, the monetary policy committee expects both headline and core inflation to slow toward ...