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UK second-home ownership jumps

Bloomberg One in 10 adults in the UK owns multiple houses, underscoring a growing generational divide in the nation’s property market. While overall home ownership has dropped this century as prices skyrocketed, the number of people with at least two properties has jumped 30 percent to 5.2 million between 2000-02 and 2012-14, the Resolution Foundation said. The vast majority of ...

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Nestle’s Poland Spring is groundwater, alleges new suit

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary groundwater that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural springs as the company advertises, according to a lawsuit. While Poland Springs says its water bottles contain “100 percent natural spring water” from a source deep in Maine’s woods, ...

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The new Mercedes Maybach concept, a 20-foot-long convertible

Bloomberg At a private estate on Pebble Beach Golf Course in Carmel, Calif., Mercedes-Benz unveiled its latest concept car: the Mercedes-Maybach Vision 6 Cabriolet last week. Like the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept that the company unveiled prior to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last year, the Maybach 6 Cabriolet is an electric car that’s nearly 20 feet long, has a ...

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