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Bloomberg South Korea has so far raised about one-tenth of the target for its stock-market stabilisation fund and has yet to make any investments, Kang Shinwoo, the advisor for the fund, said in an interview. The emergency fund aims to raise 10.7 trillion won ($8.77 billion) in total from local banks, brokerages and other financial institutions to support the nation’s ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. has requested loans totaling $4.6 billion from lenders including Japan’s three megabanks as the carmaker suffers from plunging sales due to the coronavirus, according to bankers familiar with the matter. The automaker is seeking financing from Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Financial Group Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and the state-backed Development Bank of Japan, ...

Bloomberg For Graham Lancaster, the owner of a real estate agency in the English county of Kent, the alarm will go off in three months. Britain is headed into its peak of the coronavirus outbreak, and companies and households are busy doing the math to see how long they’ve got before the money runs out, just as they are across ...

Bloomberg Ride-hailing company Bolt Technology OU is seeking credit support from the Estonian government after a switch to quarantine-friendly services failed to sufficiently improve its finances and banks turned down requests for loans. The service formerly known as Taxify, a rival to Uber Technologies Inc, is asking for $54 million in loans or public credit guarantees after commercial lenders have ...

Bloomberg Spain reported fewer coronavirus deaths and new cases on Thursday in Europe’s second-most deadly outbreak of the disease. There were 5,756 new infections in the 24 hours through Thursday, pushing the total above 150,000, according to Health Ministry data. The death toll rose by 683 to 15,238, a smaller gain than Wednesday’s 757. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is asking ...

Bloomberg Google was ordered by French antitrust regulators to pay publishers to display their articles, ending its long-standing practice of using excerpts on its news service for free. The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their content. The ...

Bloomberg A panel of Indian government ministers advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to partially lift the lockdown imposed on March 25 to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, people with knowledge of the matter said. Areas with large clusters of Covid-19 cases will remain closed, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private. The ...

Bloomberg Japan has earmarked $2.2 billion of its record economic stimulus package to help its manufacturers shift production out of China as the coronavirus disrupts supply chains between the major trading partners. The extra budget, compiled to try to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, includes 220 billion yen ($2 billion) for companies shifting production back to Japan and ...

Bloomberg Malaysia will hand out 24.62 million masks, four for each household, while advising people to only use them if they have symptoms, Defense Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said in a statement on Wednesday. The global stance on wearing masks has started to shift over the past few weeks. Neighbouring Indonesia ordered citizens to wear face masks when they leave ...

Bloomberg The Hong Kong government is set to announce a fresh round of stimulus measures to shore up the crippled economy, with a local media report saying the total could exceed $12.9 billion. The aid package will mostly be dedicated to subsidising wages in sectors hit by closures and restrictions imposed to curb the deadly virus, according to the South ...