Bloomberg Hong Kong’s red-hot housing market shows no signs of cooling anytime soon. Prices in the city have climbed 11 percent this year, defying skeptics waiting for the bubble to burst and government attempts to rein in the world’s most expensive housing market through a raft of taxes and mortgage curbs. If anything, the frenzy has intensified in recent months ...

Bloomberg Business Secretary Greg Clark said reviving Britain’s flagging productivity lies at the heart of the industrial strategy he was expected to unveil it on Monday to help chart the future of Britain’s economy as the country leaves the EU. While Britain would pursue the strategy “regardless” of Brexit, the plan will take the sting out of the uncertainty sparked ...

Bloomberg Women working in London are paid the least relative to their male counterparts in the whole of the UK. The gender pay gap in London is almost as big now as it was in 1997, meaning the UK capital has gone from having the narrowest divide to the widest in 20 years as other UK regions posted greater improvements, ...