Bloomberg South Korea’s biggest arranger of offshore bond sales expects another busy year in 2020 due to a big wall of maturing debt and foreign investor demand at a time of rising uncertainties elsewhere. Korean issuers sold $33.3 billion of notes abroad last year, only slightly below the six-year high marked in 2018, Bloomberg-compiled data show. Issuance in 2020 will ...

Bloomberg India’s Tata Group scored a temporary victory in a corporate feud after the nation’s top court said an ousted chairman can’t return to his old job, a move that promises to reduce the legal distractions threatening to stunt growth at the $111 billion conglomerate. A three-judge Supreme Court bench put on hold a lower court verdict last month that ...

Bloomberg Japan Post Holdings Co’s new chief executive officer vowed to restore the group’s reputation and said it’s too soon to think about growing business after an insurance scandal brought down his predecessor. “My mission is to forge a solid footing,” Hiroya Masuda said in Tokyo. “We have just received a business suspension order. We would lose investors’ trust if ...

Bloomberg China will reach its target of economic growth of 6% to 6.5% in 2019, said National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) head Ning Jizhe, just days before the official release of data on gross domestic product from last year. China remains the world’s fastest-growing economy larger than $10 trillion, he said at a forum on Saturday, according to a report ...

Bloomberg A tweet from a Japanese billionaire to distribute 1 billion yen ($9 million) to his followers is attracting plenty of attention. Yusaku Maezawa pledged to give 1 million yen each to 1,000 of his Twitter followers who reposted a message from his @yousuck2020 account. It has been retweeted 4.1 million times since the New Year. Maezawa, 44, who founded ...

Bloomberg If the latest monthly manufacturing data suggests anything, it’s that president Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t yet solved a key issue haunting US steelmakers: China’s subsidising of its own industry. Manufacturing jobs in December unexpectedly fell by 12,000 with a key part of the drop coming in businesses that make raw and fabricated metals. The metal-making industries accounted for a ...

Bloomberg One of president Donald Trump’s top economic advisers played down the prospects of the administration concluding further phases of a trade deal with China, saying any future negotiations would depend on how an initial accord — due to be signed next week — is implemented. “Phase two’s going to depend a lot on how phase one goes,” Larry Kudlow ...

Bloomberg The US labour market ended the year with less momentum, as payroll gains cooled by more than forecast and wages rose at the weakest annual pace since 2018, even as unemployment held at a half-century low of 3.5%. Nonfarm payrolls rose 145,000 in December, the least since May, after a downwardly revised 256,000 advance the prior month, according to ...

Bloomberg US antitrust enforcers are proposing new guidelines for determining whether to approve mergers that combine companies that don’t compete with one another but operate in the same supply chain. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission announced criteria for how they would evaluate so-called vertical mergers in the future. If finalised, the guidelines would replace rules that haven’t formally ...

Bloomberg Wirecard AG Chairman Wulf Matthias resigned after months of controversy over the digital payments company’s accounting practices. Matthias stepped down as chairman of the supervisory board for personal reasons, and will be replaced by Thomas Eichelmann, the Aschheim, Germany-based company said Friday in a statement. Matthias will remain a member of the board. The payment processor’s shares have whipsawed ...