Accra / AFP Excess and waste are usually considered symptomatic of the affluent West but trained chef Elijah Amoo Addo knows these are problems too in his home country, Ghana.One day he saw a homeless man collecting food scraps to feed others in the capital, Accra. Watching someone pick up food no-one else would eat for people no-one was ...

  Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne hit back at claims he’s scaremongering in his campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, saying “there is a lot to be scared about.” Osborne rejected accusations he had misrepresented Treasury analysis of the consequences of a vote to leave the EU on June 23 and overstated the impact of an ...

  Bloomberg The U.K.’s 10-year government bond yield dropped to a record before an auction of index-linked debt, the final sale before the nation’s referendum on European Union membership. The yield could fall further to 1 percent in the event that the U.K. votes to leave the world’s biggest single market on June 23, according to Daniela Russell, a portfolio ...

  Bloomberg A U.K. vote to leave the European Union could cut gross domestic product of the Netherlands by €10 billion ($11.4 billion) by 2030 due to an increase in the cost of trade, having a “relatively severe effect” on the economy, the Dutch planning agency said. Assuming that trade also fosters innovation, Brexit-related costs could increase another 65 percent, ...

  Bloomberg Pro-EU forces have warned that if Britain votes to exit the union on June 23, the country could lose almost a million jobs. Recruiters say the damage has already begun. “Companies are pushing the pause button,” said Kit Bingham, a partner at executive search firm Odgers Berndtson. An Odgers poll last month found that a quarter of directors ...

  Bloomberg Dong Energy A/S became Europe’s biggest initial public offering this year, with investors lining up to own shares in the Danish utility as it transforms itself into a renewable energy giant. The world’s biggest offshore wind-park operator sold 17.4 percent of its shares at 235 kroner a piece, raising 17.1 billion kroner ($2.6 billion), according to a statement ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank bought notes in the region’s corporate bond markets for a second day. Purchases included securities issued by troubled German carmaker Volkswagen AG; Continental AG, Europe’s second-biggest car-parts maker; and French mobile company Orange SA. ECB President Mario Draghi expanded the bond-buying program he started on Wednesday to stimulate the region’s flagging economy. He’s casting ...

  Bloomberg Mario Draghi called on politicians to help the European Central Bank’s bid to restore economic health to the region by accelerating reforms. “There are many understandable political reasons to delay structural reform, but there are few good economic ones,” the ECB president said in a speech in Brussels on Thursday. “The cost of delay is simply too high.” ...

  Bloomberg Brazil kept borrowing costs unchanged as a new central bank president is set to take over the challenge of slowing inflation to target without exacerbating the worst recession in over a century. Policy makers, led by departing bank President AlexandreTombini, on Wednesday voted unanimously to keep the Selic at a near-decade high of 14.25 percent for a seventh ...

  Bloomberg Dell Inc. paid up to sell $3.25 billion of junk bonds that will help finance its takeover of EMC Corp., just as it did last month in a $20 billion offering of investment-grade debt. The computer maker sold the longer part of its offering, $1.625 billion of eight-year bonds, for a yield of 7.125 percent, about 1.31 percentage ...