Bloomberg Britain’s referendum on EU membership entered its final day of campaigning with opinion polls and financial markets at odds about the likely outcome. Money has piled into bets on “Remain” winning over the past week. The pound has surged to a five-month high and an index of betting flows compiled by Oddschecker shows the chance of Brexit has ...

  Bloomberg Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani gave the auction market a much-needed boost on Tuesday when they fetched the highest prices for Sotheby’s in London since 2010. Picasso’s 1909 Cubist painting “Femme Assise” sold for £43.3 million ($63.5 million), surpassing the estimated target of £30 million. Moments later, Modigliani’s “ Jeanne Hebuterne (au Foulard)” took £38.5 million, ...

  London / AFP Bosses from more than half of Britain’s biggest companies on Wednesday urged Britons to vote Remain on the eve of a critical EU membership referendum. Almost 1,300 business executives — including those from 51 of London’s top FTSE 100 listed companies —wrote in a letter to The Times newspaper that Britain leaving the EU could cause ...