PARIS / Bloomberg A partnership led by by Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group Co. plans to invest more than €3 billion in a retail and leisure development project outside of Paris, taking on Walt Disney Co. in the euro area’s second-largest economy. EuropaCity will be built 10 kilometers northeast of Paris. It will be the biggest single investment ...

NEW YORK / Bloomberg At the very top of his newly constructed condo tower in SoHo, developer Kevin Maloney saw a problem: a triplex penthouse priced at $45 million that he knew wouldn’t sell in a Manhattan market where luxury deals are slowing. So he ripped up the floor plan and chopped the apartment with about 8,400 square feet of ...

Tokyo / AFP Japan has posted its first factory output expansion in three months, official data showed, offering some rare good news after a string of weak figures threw cold water on recovery hopes. The upbeat figures — a 3.7 percent rise on-month in January — comes as investors look for clues about the state of the world’s number three ...