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  Seoul / Bloomberg South Korea will bolster capital at policy banks through a fund to support restructuring of the nation’s shipping and shipbuilding industries, the government said on Wednesday. The plan is for the government and the Bank of Korea to create an 11 trillion won fund ($9.5 billion) to make sure state lenders can withstand losses as they ...

  Seoul / AFP Prosecutors on Wednesday raided Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., one of South Korea’s three giant shipbuilders, as part of a probe into a $2 billion accounting fraud. Some 150 staff from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office stormed DSME headquarters in Seoul and its Okpo shipyard on the southern island of Geoje, the company said. “This morning, ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki ceded the role of chief executive officer and one of his top deputies will resign after the automaker admitted to using unapproved fuel-economy testing methods in Japan. The 86-year-old Suzuki will decline the position of CEO and Executive Vice President Osamu Honda, 66, will step down as of the company’s ...

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India’s monsoon has finally arrived. The annual rains reached the southern state of Kerala on Wednesday, Sunitha Devi, an official with the India Meteorological Department, said by phone from Pune. The normal onset date for the monsoon is June 1 and the agency had said Tuesday that it would probably cover Kerala by June 9. ...

  Tokyo / AFP Japan’s economy expanded at a slightly faster pace than first thought, revised figures showed on Wednesday, knocking hopes that the central bank will unleash fresh stimulus this month. The data were unlikely to inspire renewed faith in Prime Minister’s Shinzo Abe’s faltering growth policies, after Tokyo last week said it would delay a tax hike to ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank started buying corporate bonds on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter. Purchases included €3 million ($3.4 million) of bonds sold by French utility Engie SA, along with 10-year notes from Telefonica SA, Spain’s biggest telecommunications company, and securities sold by Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Italy’s biggest insurer, said the people, who aren’t authorized ...

Bloomberg French business confidence fell its lowest level in more than a year in May as strikes hampered refinery output and limited petrochemical supplies. A gauge of sentiment among manufacturing executives dropped to 97 in May, its lowest since March 2015 and down from 99 in April. The central cut its Q2 growth forecast to 0.2% from 0.3%. Workers at ...

  Bloomberg Denmark’s biggest bank is telling clients to hedge against currency losses that will affect more markets than just the pound as Britain’s June 23 referendum on its European Union membership draws closer. Clients of Copenhagen-based Danske Bank A/S are being advised to hedge for a weaker pound against the euro and a weaker euro against the dollar and ...

  Bloomberg Rosneft OJSC, Russia’s largest oil producer, said profit slumped 75 percent in the first quarter as crude prices hit their lowest point in over a decade. Net income dropped to 14 billion rubles in the first three months of the year compared to 56 billion rubles in the same period a year earlier, according to a statement on ...

  Bloomberg Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told hometown university graduates they are entering a more volatile job market where the potential gains from creating new products are greater and many other industries will be wiped out. Much of the tumult comes from the trauma of the 2008 global financial crisis that has shaken past drivers of economic growth, ...