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Biden’s climate plan is ‘dangerous’ says UK business secretary

  Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s plan to subsidize clean energy is “dangerous” and risks pushing the world toward protectionism, Britain’s Business Secretary Grant Shapps said, in the UK’s bluntest criticism to date of the US Inflation Reduction Act. European Union leaders say the US legislation will unfairly benefit American firms and violate World Trade Organization rules. To date, Prime Minister ...

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Yellen woos Africa as US vies for influence with China, Russia

  Bloomberg US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, declaring that African can help shape the future of the global economy, will set out why the Biden administration intends to elevate its focus on the continent over the next two years in a speech she’s slated to deliver Friday in Dakar, Senegal. “The United States is committed to building on Africa’s significant ...

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Prices for Swiss single family homes drop

  Bloomberg Prices for Swiss single family homes fell for the first time since before the pandemic, raising the prospect that a market that has boomed for decades may be turning. Transaction prices declined 0.18% in the final three months of 2022, data compiled by Zurich-based real-estate consulting firm Wuest Partner show. The last time they fell was in the ...

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