Bloomberg Germany’s unemployment rate fell to a record low as the number of people out of work slid for a sixth month, reflecting a boom in Europe’s largest economy that could push up wages and inflation. The jobless rate was 5.5 percent in December, and the previous month’s rate was revised down to the same level, the Federal Labor Agency ...

Bloomberg Wall Street doesn’t think corporate America will have a hard time coming up with those employee bonuses that were promised after taxes were slashed. The December passage of the tax overhaul package and West Texas Intermediate crude’s breach of $60 a barrel have propelled the S&P 500 three-month earnings estimate revision ratio to its highest level since 2011, according ...

Bloomberg The UK’s thrifty health authority has cleared its most expensive medicine ever—a $700,000 GlaxoSmithKline Plc treatment for an illness known as “bubble-boy disease.” But the overall cost to the country’s medical system won’t be as eye-popping as the price suggests. Glaxo, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, said it has treated four patients with Strimvelis since it was approved by the European ...