Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. plans to upgrade its UK carmaking plant in a sign that concerns about Brexit won’t derail its investments in the country for now. The world’s second-biggest auto manufacturer will spend 240 million pounds ($294 million) to update equipment and technology at a factory in Burnaston, England to allow the production of models on its latest ...

  Bloomberg Beginning construction of US houses climbed to a four-month high in February, led by the strongest pace of single-family homebuilding in nearly a decade. Residential starts advanced 3 percent to a 1.29 million annualized rate, a Commerce Department report showed on Thursday. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 1.26 million. Construction of one-family dwellings rose ...

  Bloomberg The UK government intervened in 21st Century Fox Inc.’s 11.7 billion-pound ($14.4 billion) bid to take over Sky Plc, asking regulators to report back within 40 working days on how the deal would affect public-interest issues. “Today, I have issued a European Intervention Notice on the grounds of media plurality and commitment to broadcasting standards,” UK Culture Minister ...