Bloomberg UK house prices have slipped for a fourth month in June as the country started to emerge from lockdown. Average house prices fell 0.1% to an average of $300,000, Halifax said, the longest run of declines in a decade. From a year earlier, prices gained 2.5%. New mortgage inquiries rose 100% on the month. Britain is slowly lifting the ...

Bloomberg Digital advertising platforms run by Google, Amazon.com Inc. and other tech companies will funnel at least $25 million to websites spreading misinformation about Covid-19 this year, according to a study released Wednesday. Google’s platforms will provide $19 million, or $3 out of every $4 that the misinformation sites get in ad revenue. OpenX, a smaller digital ad distributor, handles ...

Bloomberg European stocks erased losses and US equity futures climbed as investors weighed prospects for the economy to recover during the pandemic. Telecom and health-care shares were among the biggest gainers in Europe. HSBC Holdings Plc slumped after a report that some of Donald Trump’s advisers proposed a move to destabilize Hong Kong’s currency peg to the dollar as a ...

Bloomberg India stocks swung as investors weighed the gradual resumption of business activity against a steady rise in new coronavirus cases, ahead of the quarterly earnings season starting on Thursday. The S&P BSE Sensex was little changed at 36,714.87, at 10:05 am in Mumbai, as was the NSE Nifty 50 Index after both gained at least 0.4%. The measures have ...

Bloomberg Chinese investors are loading up on leverage to speculate in the stock market at the fastest pace in more than five years. They pushed outstanding margin debt on domestic exchanges to more than 1.2 trillion yuan ($171 billion). The figure rose 36.7 billion yuan from July 3, the biggest increase since January 2015. The surge in leverage shows how ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Government will complete more than two million Covid-19 tests during the next two months to continue to curb the spread of the virus. The announcement was made at the UAE government’s regular media briefing wherein Dr Amna Al Dahak Al Shamsi, official spokesperson of the UAE government, provided an update on Covid-19 and all ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), announced on Tuesday the successful financial closing for the largest gas-fired power plant in the UAE. The AED4.2 billion Fujairah F3 Independent Power Producer (IPP) project will have a power generation capacity of 2.4 GW – equivalent to the powering of 380,000 UAE households. The power plant is expected to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) published its Financial Stability Report (FSR) which provides information, analysis and an assessment of the resilience and matters that require additional support in the banking and financial system in the UAE promoting public understanding and transparency. The report covers macro-financial conditions, regulatory developments, assessments of the banking and finance ...

Bloomberg Oil dropped to trade near $40 a barrel before US government data that’s forecast to show gasoline stockpiles increased, while rising virus infections raised concern stricter controls will be extended. US gasoline supplies expanded by one million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg survey, while nationwide crude stockpiles are projected to have fallen for a second week. Official ...

Bloomberg Hotter temperatures by 2100 could slash global GDP by more than 20%, according to new research, and the way the economic impact will be distributed threatens to turn climate change into an enormous driver of worldwide inequality. A new analysis of the relationship between heat and economic performance released this week by Oxford Economics, a global forecasting firm, identified ...