Bloomberg Barratt Developments Plc has seen a sharp slowdown in sales rates as high borrowing costs and the threat of a house price plunge combine to undermine the UK property market. The average number of weekly private sales at Barratt’s sites has more than halved, leading the firm to warn that it could deliver fewer homes than currently expected, ...

Bloomberg For years, Elon Musk paid zero dollars for traditional advertising while almost singlehandedly keeping Tesla — and himself — front and center. With a never-ending stream of tweets, television and podcast appearances and livestreamed product events, the electric-vehicle maker and its billionaire CEO dominated news cycles and occasionally went viral. Musk was a veritable hype machine, and his knack ...

  Bloomberg China said the rising number of warplanes it sends toward Taiwan were due to the island’s “military collusion” with the US, shedding light on its motives for the threatening activity. The People’s Liberation Army “drills are a solemn warning against Taipei’s increased provocation, which damaged peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China’s ...