Bloomberg Soaring home prices in Vancouver and Toronto won’t keep the Bank of Canada from cutting rates to stimulate the economy, if it comes to that. That’s the takeaway from an interview Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz gave the Wall Street Journal after the release of the central bank’s policy decision, in which it left its benchmark rate ...

  Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP agreed to buy a 32 percent stake in Swedish residential landlord D. Carnegie & Co. AB from three of the company’s biggest shareholders. Blackstone, through its subsidiary Vega Holdco Sarl, will acquire the shares in the Stockholm-based company for 100 Swedish kronor ($11.8) each, Blackstone said in a statement this week. This will give the ...

  Bloomberg Canam Group Inc. fell the most in 20 months after the Canadian construction company announced an extra C$32 million ($25 million) expense due to revised cost estimates for one of its projects. Canam, builder of the retractable roof for the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, plunged as much as 12 percent, the most since October 2014, to ...