Bloomberg Business

China’s economic recovery is in danger of sputtering after figures this week showed a further contraction in manufacturing and softer services activity.

Roiled by rising borrowing costs and falling valuations that wiped out $148 billion of shareholder value, European landlords are bracing for a new wave of pain.

The European Union’s transition to clean energy marked a milestone in May, when solar panels generated more electricity than all of the bloc’s coal plants for the first time — and that’s before summer sun boosts production even further.

Protests worldwide over retirement rules and benefits have more than tripled this year as countries from France to Iran to India grapple with demographic changes and the strains they are putting on national finances.

Sweden’s battered commercial property sector could be in for further consolidation after one of the country’s biggest landlords appointed a longtime industry insider from a rival company to be its new chief executive.

Australia seeks to balance its economic and security relationship with China even as it maintains a longstanding defense alliance with the US at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, according to Defense Minister Richard Marles.

For about two decades, a meat plant in the northwest German town of Vörden has helped produce a bear-shaped cold cut known as Bärchenwurst, beloved by children across the country. But rising production costs and waning demand for pork — even in a nation that once had some of the highest per capita consumption rates — forced the factory’s operator to declare a few weeks ago that it would shut down.