News Corp-controlled REA Group will have to sweeten the deal if it is to bring together two of the English-speaking world’s dominant real-estate listing websites, after U.K. counterpart Rightmove rebuffed its initial $7.32 billion approach.
The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday dipped to a seven-month low in a sign of strength for a steadily expanding U.S. economy.