Bloomberg Bank of England officials said the U.K.’s European Union referendum may already be weighing on growth as they kept their key interest rate at a record low. The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor Mark Carney, unanimously agreed to maintain the benchmark at 0.5 percent — where it’s been for more than seven years. In a ramping up …

  London / AP The latest bout of falling prices across the 19-country eurozone has ended — after just a single month. Revised figures on Thursday from the European Union’s statistics agency showed that inflation was flat in the year to March. That’s up from the initial estimate of a 0.1 percent fall and February’s 0.2 percent annual drop. The biggest …

Bloomberg Lawsuits filed by hundreds of Porsche SE investors over the company’s use of complex financial instruments in 2008 before its failed takeover of Volkswagen AG will be combined under a special procedure to handle some large civil cases in Germany. A court in Hanover ruled that it will send the cases to appellate judges in the northern city of …