Bloomberg The UK economy shows little sign of breaking out of its “pattern of uninspiring growth,” and the first quarter may have been weaker than expected. The first three months of the year may have seen gross domestic product gain as little as 0.2 percent as severe weather cramped growth, a report by the EY Item Club will probably say ...

Bloomberg The acrimonious fight over the future of Xerox Corp looks set to worsen after two of its largest shareholders, activist investor Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, released a report alleging widespread corporate governance failures in the way the company negotiated its $6.1 billion sale to Fujifilm Holdings Corp. In a letter to Xerox shareholders, Icahn and Deason accused Xerox’s ...

The global economy is on the mend — but will the recovery be quashed by too much worldwide debt? Just last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its forecast for world economic growth to 3.9 percent for both 2018 and 2019. Most advanced societies — the United States, Japan, Europe — grew faster in 2017 than expected, and the ...