The US Department of Transportation has published its most recent data on fatal motor vehicle crashes. In 2018, 36,560 people were killed in crashes, down 2.4% from 2017, which was in turn down 0.9% from 2016. According to the department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fatalities fell in every segment except for large trucks and “non-occupant fatalities” — pedestrians and ...

Stepping off the Eurostar train at London’s glorious St. Pancras station is always a thrill, but on a recent Sunday evening it felt downright radical. Unusually, I’d started my journey more than 10 hours earlier and 600 miles (966 kilometers) away in Berlin. I was attending a summit on decarbonising the economy organized by BloombergNEF and turning up by plane ...

Bloomberg China’s room to ease monetary policy to aid the slowing economy is being limited further by price rises due the ongoing swine fever epidemic, economists said. Analysts from Nomura International Ltd and Changjiang Securities Co warned that surging consumer inflation has become a major constraint on the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), and the likelihood for major monetary easing ...