Bloomberg Tesla Inc. could raise funds as soon as this year as Elon Musk’s company ramps up production and prepares for maturing debt, analysts at Morgan Stanley predict. The company, whose stock has slumped 25 percent in the past six weeks amid a string of controversies, could raise $2.5 billion in equity in the fourth quarter from investors that have ...

Bloomberg The European business of coffee chain Starbucks Corp. paid an effective UK tax rate of 2.8 percent last year after a payment from another part of the company boosted profits, the Financial Times reported. The company paid $5.9 million in UK taxes on a profit of $213 million in the year ended October 2017, down from earnings of $219 ...

Bloomberg London house prices posted their biggest drop in almost a decade in July. Home prices fell 0.7 percent, the biggest decline since September 2009, the Office for National Statistics said. The average property in the capital cost $640,000. Trends in the London property market tend to start in boroughs in the centre and west of the city, before moving ...