Bloomberg Germany’s biggest services union kicked off wage negotiations with Deutsche Post AG pushing for 15% higher pay for about 160,000 postal workers, a demand the company has turned down as “unrealistic.” The Verdi union reiterated the stipulations first put forward in November before the collective bargaining talks got under way, including a €200 a month bump-up for trainees. The ...

Bloomberg UK house prices are on track to drop 8% this year after declining for four months in a row, one of the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders said. Halifax said its measure of property prices fell 1.5% last month after a 2.4% decline in November. The figures are similar to a reading from Nationwide Building Society, which last week reported ...

  Bloomberg GSK Plc and CureVac NV are planning further patient trials of their messenger RNA vaccines for flu and Covid-19 after promising early results, though the partners still lag behind rivals in the race to expand use of mRNA technology. The partners’ second-generation vaccine candidates showed promising abilities to spur the immune system in early-stage trials, CureVac said. The ...