Bloomberg For American retailers, what Trump giveth, Trump taketh away. President Donald Trump’s administration, which said just 10 days ago it would delay until December some of its new tariffs on Chinese goods, has hit the retail sector with a new blow: The new levies will be raised to 15% from 10% as retaliation after China threatened to impose additional ...

Bloomberg Denmark stuck to its growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020, as the new government seeks to navigate the export-oriented economy through a global slowdown and rising trade tensions. The Nordic country still expects gross domestic product to rise by 1.7 percent this year and 1.6 percent the next, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The Social Democratic government of ...

Bloomberg Demand for mortgages jumped last month to the highest since early 2017, according to data. Loans for house purchases rose almost 11% from a year earlier to a seasonally adjusted 43,342, lobby group UK Finance said. The report covers seven high street banks representing around 60% of total mortgage lending, data on which are due to be published by ...