Bloomberg A gauge of UK house prices dipped to its lowest in more than five years last month, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with the slowdown most acute in London and the southeast. RICS’s gauge of prices dropped to minus 8, the lowest since November 2012, the organization said in a report. The descent into negative territory ...

Bloomberg 21st Century Fox Inc., Rupert Murdoch’s film and TV company, reported weaker earnings in its latest quarter, even as a looming deal to offload most of its entertainment assets took the focus off the results. Excluding some items, profit amounted to 51 cents a share last quarter, New York-based Fox said. That missed the average of analysts’ estimates of ...

Bloomberg Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak resigned on Saturday as head of his party and was slapped with a travel ban as he faces the prospect his successor reopens a probe into a multi-billion dollar scandal at a state fund. Najib announced he would step down as president of the United Malays National Organisation, and as chairman of the ...