Bloomberg Serco Group Plc shares surged to a 14-month high after the U.K. government-services contractor raised its profit target for a second time this year following quicker-than-expected cost savings and the pound’s plunge. Serco rose as much as 16 percent to 138 pence, the highest intraday price since June 3, 2015, and was up 14 percent at 12:18 p.m. …

  The Hague / AFP Inflation in The Netherlands dipped into negative territory in July for the first time in nearly three decades, slipping to -0.30 percent, according to official statistics published on Thursday. “The last time that inflation was below zero was in December 1987,” the Central Statistics Office said. The news came after three months of stagnation when …

  Brussels / AFP The European Union on Thursday hit China and Russia with anti-dumping duties on cold rolled steel imports after complaints by EU producers they were being forced out of the market. The European Commission said the levies, announced provisionally in February, will run for five years as Europe tries to cope with a global steel glut largely …