Bloomberg Britain announced plans to generate savings of as much as 15 billion pounds ($20 billion) a year by improving productivity in sectors such as construction and transport. New programmes to increase efficiency were published alongside the government’s 600 billion-pound infrastructure pipeline, which sets out a series of publicly and privately funded projects over the next 10 years, the Treasury ...

Bloomberg China is upending the global plastics market. The world’s biggest user of scrap has stopped accepting shiploads of other countries’ plastic trash as it phases in a new ban. That’s bad news for the recycling industry, as China has been a major consumer of salvaged materials it processes into resin that ends up in pipe, carpets, bottles and other ...

Bloomberg Global stocks pared the worst of their losses after a selloff in Asia amid a broad risk-off mood. Treasuries rose with the dollar as investors’ focus turned to efforts to avert a US government shutdown . The S&P 500 fluctuated as software companies advanced and automotive stocks declined. The MSCI World index pared losses of 0.4 percent, with the ...