Bloomberg Mark Carney defended the Bank of England against political critics furious at his warnings about the dangers posed by a European Union exit, and described the British economy as facing similar uncertainty to the early 1990s. “We’re taking a judgment as a committee, and we’re changing policy because of it, we’re putting out billions of pounds of liquidity …

  Bloomberg A year of profit stagnation has left the S&P 500 Index’s price-earnings ratio flirting with some of its highest readings since the Internet bubble. Judged against bonds, though, stocks remain stubbornly cheap. Plotting the index’s per-share earnings against the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a technique sometimes referred to as the Fed Model, shows the S&P 500 …

  Bloomberg Williams Cos. said Energy Transfer Equity LP is breaching a merger agreement “through a pattern of delay and obstruction” and asked a court in Delaware to prevent the pipeline operator from terminating the deal. Energy Transfer — which offered $43.50 a share, or $37.7 billion, for rival Williams in September — said May 5 that the multibillion-dollar takeover …