Bloomberg The United Nations International Court of Justice granted Kenya’s request to postpone a hearing of a territorial dispute with Somalia, less than a week before it was scheduled to begin. The hearing will now start on November 4. Kenya had requested that it be delayed for a year as it recruits a new defense team. The neighbours claim ownership …

Bloomberg Home prices in Australia’s mining towns are leading the recovery in the property market, accounting for nine out of the 10 suburbs with the strongest growth in median prices. The gains were led by a suburb close to the home to one of the world’s largest lead smelters, as well as a once-struggling steel city, as record-low interest rates …

Bloomberg Nobody knew it then, but this time last year, the rallying US stock market was about to begin a plunge that would erase $5 trillion from share values and convince a lot of people a recession was at hand. Then, as now, a trade war was raging, earnings in doubt and manufacturing losing steam. In the stock market, swings …