Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth slowed for a second month in February and price pressures cooled, a sign that the effects of the pound’s drop may be easing. IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers Index fell to 54.6 from a revised 55.7, above the 50-mark dividing expansion from contraction but below economists’ expectations for 55.8. The pound’s fall since the UK’s June …

  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 …