International News

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son is making top executives at SoftBank Group Corp some of the highest-paid in Japan as he recruits talent to his growing investment empire. While Son’s own salary remains modest by global standards, his company paid a total of 9.1 billion yen ($83 million) in compensation to six lieutenants, according documents released for a shareholder meeting on June ...

Bloomberg Bharti Airtel Ltd is planning a share sale for its Africa unit in London as part of a push by the Indian wireless operator to cut a debt load that’s ballooned to more than $16 billion. The initial public offering by Airtel Africa Ltd would comprise new shares and the sale would seek a free float of at least ...

Bloomberg PT Softex Indonesia, a sanitary product maker backed by PE firm CVC Capital Partners, is planning an initial public offering that could raise as much as $500 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Tangerang-based company has met with potential advisers for a share sale in Indonesia that could happen as soon as this year, the ...

Bloomberg Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s fourth-quarter profit halved from a year ago as the fallout from a corporate governance scandal caused it to take a 10.85 billion-rupee charge ($155.7 million) and led to the brother-in-law of billionaire founder Dilip Shanghvi moving to a non-executive role. Shares rose by as much as 2 percent on Wednesday morning trading as investors cheered ...

Bloomberg One of China’s largest listed drug makers that’s been under a regulatory probe for months said it overstated cash positions after using false documents and transaction records. The stock tumbled by the 5 percent daily limit. Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co, a producer of traditional Chinese medicines, said in a filing that such methods have led to an overstatement of cash ...

Bloomberg Singapore leapfrogged Hong Kong and the US to take the top spot among the world’s most competitive economies for the first time in nine years. The city state’s advanced technological infrastructure, availability of skilled workers, favourable immigration laws, and efficiency for starting businesses supported its rise to the No. 1 spot, the Switzerland-based IMD Business School said in its ...

Bloomberg Global Payments Inc. agreed to buy Total System Services Inc. in a deal valued at $21.5 billion, the payment industry’s third mega-merger of the year. The transaction will create a powerhouse that provides payment technology and software to more than 3.5 million small to midsize merchants and more than 1,300 financial institutions worldwide, the two companies said in a ...

Bloomberg Italian broadcaster Mediaset SpA has bought a stake in Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE as it seeks to diversify beyond its home country and fend off growing competition from Netflix Inc. The 9.6 percent holding is worth about 340 million euros ($380 million), based on ProSieben’s closing price. ProSieben shares gained 4.4 percent in Frankfurt, while Mediaset fell less than ...

Bloomberg ArcelorMittal fell the most in two years after announcing that it’s cutting steel production across its European plants to cope with weak demand and rising imports. The world’s largest steelmaker will reduce primary production in Dunkirk, Fra-nce and Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany, according to a statement on Wednesday. It will also cut output in Bremen, Germany and extend a stoppage planned ...

Bloomberg German unemployment unexpectedly rose for the first time in almost two years as the economic slowdown finally started to take a toll on the labour market. The number of people out of work unexpectedly climbed by 60,000 in May, compared with economists’ forecasts for a decline of 8,000. The jobless rate also rose, to 5 percent from a record-low ...