Bloomberg The UK government intervened in 21st Century Fox Inc.’s 11.7 billion-pound ($14.4 billion) bid to take over Sky Plc, asking regulators to report back within 40 working days on how the deal would affect public-interest issues. “Today, I have issued a European Intervention Notice on the grounds of media plurality and commitment to broadcasting standards,” UK Culture Minister …

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that he’s open to negotiation on the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, as conservative and moderate GOP lawmakers push changes to the proposal. Trump was asked by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson whether the legislation, called the American Health Care Act, was the best Republicans could do after seven years …

  China’s National People’s Congress, which concluded on Wednesday, didn’t do much to ease the main worry about the world’s second-biggest economy: its large and growing pile of debt. In fact, to keep GDP growth ticking over at 6.5 percent or more, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged a 12 percent expansion in credit this year. That implies about $2.7 trillion …