Bloomberg Bank of England officials said the U.K.’s European Union referendum may already be weighing on growth as they kept their key interest rate at a record low. The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor Mark Carney, unanimously agreed to maintain the benchmark at 0.5 percent — where it’s been for more than seven years. In a ramping up ...

  London / AP The latest bout of falling prices across the 19-country eurozone has ended — after just a single month. Revised figures on Thursday from the European Union’s statistics agency showed that inflation was flat in the year to March. That’s up from the initial estimate of a 0.1 percent fall and February’s 0.2 percent annual drop. The biggest ...

Bloomberg Lawsuits filed by hundreds of Porsche SE investors over the company’s use of complex financial instruments in 2008 before its failed takeover of Volkswagen AG will be combined under a special procedure to handle some large civil cases in Germany. A court in Hanover ruled that it will send the cases to appellate judges in the northern city of ...

  Bloomberg Elections are approaching in Norway, accompanied by the familiar sound of oil executives and politicians arguing over the environmentally sensitive Lofoten islands in the Arctic. Oil prices may have plunged in a global economy awash with oversupply, but producers in Norway say they’re thinking much longer term. Statoil ASA, which has been lobbying for years to open the ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin told Russians that the economy will resume growth next year in his annual call-in show on Thursday, aiming to shore up his support as the country’s longest economic downturn in two decades pushes more people into poverty. “The situation hasn’t been resolved yet but the trend is positive,” Putin said, pointing to forecasts that the economy ...

Bloomberg The world’s biggest oil explorers are fighting a U.S. plan to toughen offshore drilling rules that Exxon Mobil Corp. said will cost $25 billion over 10 years and render many offshore discoveries worthless. The Obama administration will issue the sweeping new regulations as part of an effort to reduce the number of well blowouts after the explosion aboard the ...

  Bloomberg Energy XXI Ltd., a U.S. oil and gas explorer, filed for bankruptcy protection after spending $5 billion on acquisitions in the years leading up to the crude slump. The company entered Chapter 11 in Houston after reaching a restructuring agreement with noteholders, it said on Thursday in a statement. “Energy XXI will eliminate more than $2.8 billion in ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s Ibovespa equity index rallied to a 10-month high as traders increased wagers that President Dilma Rousseff will be impeached, paving the way for a new government to pull the economy out of its worst recession in a century. State-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA, iron ore miner Vale SA and lender Itau Unibanco Holding SA contributed the ...

Bloomberg Argentina can go ahead with a planned $15 billion bond sale to pay off holdout creditors from a 2001 default, ending more than a decade of litigation over repayment of the debt that kept South America’s second-biggest economy out of international credit markets. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York cleared the way for the bond sale by ...

  Bloomberg Argentina’s inflation will slow to the very top of its target range by year-end, the International Monetary Fund forecast, showing more optimism than most economists. Inflation will slow to the 25 percent ceiling of Argentina’s target range by year-end, the IMF said in its published World Economic Outlook. That is lower than all estimates from economists surveyed by ...