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UK cranks up pressure on EU to turn Brexit talks to trade

Bloomberg The UK is piling pressure on the European Union to shift the focus of Brexit negotiations away from the terms of divorce and onto their future relationship. Britain will publish a flurry of documents in the coming days laying out the government’s position on topics ranging from data protection to judicial cooperation. Five papers are due to be published ...

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Google unfurls subscription tool for publishers

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google is developing new tools designed to boost subscriptions for news publishers. It follows a similar olive branch from Facebook Inc. to an industry that has seen the digital behemoths take over the online advertising market. Google’s latest foray arrives on three fronts. The first is a revamp of its feature, called “first click free,” that allows ...

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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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