Bloomberg Mercedes-Benz boosted sales twice as fast as BMW in the first quarter, moving closer to clinching the lead in the world’s luxury-car market for the first time in a decade. The Daimler AG unit’s deliveries soared 13 percent to 483,487 vehicles in the three months through March, compared with a 6 percent increase to 478,743 cars for BMW AG’s ...

Bloomberg De Beers increased diamond sales at its third offering this year in a sign of recovering demand for rough gems after a slump last year. Shares of listed parent Anglo American Plc surged as much as 9.4%. De Beers sold $660 million of diamonds in April, the diamond miner said on Tuesday. That’s up from the $617 million of ...

Bloomberg Greece will take a one-week break in bailout review discussions with its creditors, after failing to reach an initial agreement, as officials from the Greek government, the euro area and the International Monetary Fund fly to Washington to attend IMF meetings. Officials decided to “pause,” so they can all go to Washington, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said in ...