MUMBAI / Bloomberg A rusty six-story steel structure surrounded by tin-sheet huts stands on a prime plot overlooking one of Mumbai’s largest open spaces of greenery: The horse-racing track in the city’s plush Mahalaxmi area. What was to be a soaring luxury skyscraper from DB Realty Ltd. has been languishing for more than five years, with the developer’s website still ...

Bloomberg If you’ve been paying attention to auction coverage recently, the outlook seems grim: The value of artworks on offer has plummeted, volume and totals are down significantly, and various news organizations (including this one) have sounded ominous warnings of an imminent market decline. But all of this is drawn from a tiny sliver of the art market. Bloomberg’s auction ...

Bloomberg For an industry that is losing money on almost every transaction, the world’s commodity shippers are remarkably busy grabbing any cargo they can get their hands on. From space, where satellites track ship movements, it all appears like the market is booming, data compiled by Bloomberg show. At giant iron-ore loading terminals in Brazil and Australia, millions of tons ...