Bloomberg First it was the collapsing oil price. Now it’s Britain’s quest to leave the European Union. There’s little respite for the country’s worst-performing property market. Home prices in Aberdeen, Britain’s oil hub on Scotland’s northeast coast, have fallen more than 10 percent over the past three years as the North Sea energy industry slumped. Now it’s the political backdrop ...

Bloomberg Argentina’s IPO market hasn’t had quite the jolt some investors were expecting. A year and a half after President Mauricio Macri took office, new share sales are slow to take off. Just one company has completed an international initial public offering. The delay comes as private companies wait for their valuations to rise, while taking advantage of their low ...

Bloomberg In 2014, UK builder Carillion Plc was riding high: it had just won a $434 million contract to build the Royal Liverpool Hospital and was attempting to snap up its struggling rival Balfour Beatty Plc for about $2.6 billion. Three years later, and the former Tarmac business is on life support. Carillion has lost 70 percent of its market ...