Leonid Bershidsky Volkswagen made every effort to leave its diesel emissions scandal behind this week. It planned to announce a $10 billion deal with U.S. car owners and a fix for their cars, hold a general shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday and settle down to implement its new strategy, announced on June 16. VW’s management and top shareholders haven’t, however, ...

  Bloomberg London home builders are counting on a weaker pound to tempt buyers back into the city’s beleaguered luxury-homes market if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union. “We have seen a lot of overseas interest and they are waiting until the result,” said Rob Perrins, chief executive officer of Berkeley Group Holdings Plc. “When you have got ...

  Bloomberg Lennar Corp., the second-largest U.S. homebuilder, reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates as the improving job market helped boost sales. Net income for the three months through May was $218.5 million, or 95 cents a share, compared with $183 million, or 79 cents, a year earlier, the Miami-based company said in a statement on Tuesday. The ...