Bloomberg UK house-price inflation will slow in 2017 as affordability stretches potential buyers, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Values will rise just 3 percent and the number of transactions will see a moderate decline, RICS said in a statement on Wednesday. That compares with a year-on-year price increase of 6.9 percent in October, according to the ...

  Bloomberg BlackBerry Ltd. boosted its fiscal 2017 earnings outlook and posted a profit in the third quarter, showing the company’s bet on moving more into software and completely away from handsets is paying off. Fiscal third-quarter earnings per share, excluding some items, were 2 cents, compared with analysts’ average estimate of a loss of 1 cent. BlackBerry said it ...

  Bloomberg Actelion Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Clozel is known for his faith in the Swiss drugmaker’s experimental medicines, an optimism that may have helped scuttle a deal with Johnson & Johnson. New suitor Sanofi has the perfect negotiating tool. The French company’s takeover offer may include a contingent value right, or CVR, worth about $20 of the $275 ...