Bloomberg U.K. retail sales posted their biggest monthly decline in more than two years in March as Britons bought less of everything from food to clothing. The volume of sales excluding auto fuel fell 1.6 percent from February, the most since January 2014. Total sales dropped 1.3 percent. Both far exceeded the modest declines forecast in a Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble cast doubt on whether Greece’s bailout will succeed, while citing progress on the more immediate task of concluding a review of Greek compliance with the aid program that’s needed to unlock more funds. “We can make it, I’m not that pessimistic, we’ve made progress,” Schaeuble said during a panel discussion in Berlin late ...

Bloomberg Swiss watch exports posted the biggest quarterly drop since 2009 as the industry faces declining demand in all its main markets. Shipments dropped 8.9 percent in the first quarter, adjusted for working days, according to data from Switzerland’s customs office. Exports declined 16 percent in March to 1.5 billion francs ($1.5 billion), the lowest level for that month in ...