Bloomberg Vonovia SE — Germany’s biggest residential landlord — raised its full-year earnings forecast for a second time, citing efficiency created by a string of acquisitions. Funds from operations excluding sales, a measure of a real estate company’s ability to generate cash, will be as much as 760 million euros ($848 million) this year, compared with a previous forecast ...

  AFP US construction spending fell for a third straight month in June with spending on nonresidential construction dropping by the largest amount in six months. Construction spending fell 0.6 percent in June following declines of 0.1 percent in May and 2.9 percent in April, the Commerce Department reported Monday. Nonresidential construction declined 1.3 percent, the biggest setback since December, ...

  Bloomberg Nintendo Co. appears to be benefiting from Pokemon Go after all, just not in the way investors had originally thought. The Kyoto-based company said last month it didn’t expect the app’s runaway success to have much direct effect on profits, but Pokemon Go seems to be casting a halo that is helping Nintendo’s other businesses. Shipments of Pokemon ...