Real Estate/Construction

News Corp NWS 0.66% said quarterly profit rose nearly sixfold, driven by strong growth at its digital real-estate and book-publishing businesses as well as at Wall Street Journal…

Shares of Chinese real-estate companies led the Hong Kong market’s upturn Friday, as Sunac China Holdings Ltd. unveiled progress in restructuring its debt that could bode well for other highly leveraged private developers.…

Shares of Country Garden Holdings Co. 2007, -12.93% fell Wednesday, after the property developer said it is planning to launch a second share placement in as many months to refinance its offshore…

Wall Street is on a five-day losing streak. The decline, as measured by the S&P 500 SPX, -0.19%, of 3.6% is not that great, but it seems depressingly inevitable once the benchmark again failed to hold above…