Bloomberg The Greek government wants to persuade shipowners and shipping-insurance companies based in London to move their European Union headquarters to Greece as the UK prepares to exit the bloc. “We’re in contact with five large ship-insurance brokers who are considering various EU member countries for the transfer of their headquarters,” Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis said in an interview in …

Bloomberg UK mortgage approvals fell to a seven-month low in a sign the housing market is slowing, though Britons are continuing to take advantage of low interest rates to take on unsecured debt. Lenders approved 64,645 home loans in April, the fewest since September and below the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey. Mortgage lending grew 2.7 billion pounds, the …

Bloomberg Denmark’s economic expansion was saved in the first quarter of the year by a build up in inventories. Danish output expanded at a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent, twice as fast as estimated by economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The annual rate was 2.2 percent, according to preliminary data from Statistics Denmark. Private consumption, which accounts for almost half of …