Bloomberg When it comes to fiscal discipline in the European Union, three is the magic number. That’s a deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP, and five EU states will make the budgetary bad books this year by breaching that level. These five — the U.K., France, Spain, Greece, and Croatia — include three of Europe’s five largest economies. Three ...

Bloomberg Fidelity Capital Markets said the difference between yields on Treasuries and other bonds makes investing in the U.S. attractive, as America’s premium approached the most in a decade. Treasuries due in 10 years or longer yielded more than 1.5 percentage points more than their counterparts around the world, based on Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. The premium was ...

Bloomberg Brazil analysts reduced their 2016 economic growth forecast for the ninth straight week as a political crisis grips the nation and further dims the outlook for turnaround. Economists lowered their 2016 economic forecast to a contraction of 3.6 percent, and reduced their 2017 outlook for the first time in more than a month to 0.44 percent growth, according to ...