Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has as much as £30 billion ($36 billion) for short-term giveaways in next month’s budget after the public finances came in far better than expected in January. Borrowing since the fiscal year that began in April is running £22 billion below the level forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility in November, ...

Bloomberg Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit. The company was expected to update terms of service for UK Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users on Tuesday and customers will be notified in the coming weeks, Menlo Park, California-based Meta said ...

  Bloomberg The euro area’s two largest economies saw private-sector growth return, snapping months of contractions as easing supply shocks and an unusually mild winter provide respite. S&P Global’s flash Purchasing Managers’ Index for Germany rose to 51.1 in February — much better than the 50.3 median estimate in a Bloomberg survey and the first time since June that the ...