Britain seeks $40b investment

Britain’s Trade Minister Liam Fox was scheduled to invite overseas investors on Thursday to submit bids for financing 30 billion pounds ($40 billion) of projects to help the world’s sixth-largest economy cope with the upheaval of leaving the European Union. Britain is trying reinvent itself as a global trading nation and improve economic ties with countries outside Europe as the government prepares to leave the EU next year. Investors will be offered the chance to fund 68 projects across 20 sectors of the economy, including technology, housing and retail.