Bloomberg Three properties on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan are coming up for sale, providing a test for the biggest U.S. commercial real estate market amid signs that a six-year boom in prices is coming to an end. Joseph Sitt’s Thor Equities is seeking bids for office-and-retail buildings at 693 Fifth Ave. and 590 Fifth Ave., according to three people …

DPA Since the 1970s, Norwegian crude oil has flowed to the market seemingly without let-up, and along with it, vast sums for the state’s coffers. The natural resources sector accounts for around a fifth of Norwegian economic output, with more than 200,000 jobs dependent on it in a population of just 5.2 million. The outlook has changed radically since the …

Bloomberg Japan is spending more than $1 billion to relaunch the area around the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant as the country’s “Innovation Coast.” The region is trying to capitalize on technology developed in the five years spent cleaning up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, including Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. robots that slither like snakes or cruise through …