Bloomberg Japan’s wages may still be falling by some measures, but some analysts are so convinced that the country’s labor shortages are going to impose a cost shake-out for companies and markets that they’ve started making investment recommendations. “The labor shortage is becoming more acute,” with unemployment at just 2.8 percent, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts including strategist Shusuke …

Bloomberg Earlier this month SoftBank led a $502 million investment in a London-based virtual reality startup called Improbable Worlds. Less than two years ago, the startup was worth about $100 million. Then SoftBank came along, and suddenly it was worth 10 times that. Overnight, Improbable Worlds had become a unicorn. In the months since Softbank Group Corp. unveiled plans for …

Bloomberg Short-sellers crowding into Great Wall Motor Co. are being vindicated — and they’re lining up for more. Shares in China’s largest SUV maker have retreated 18 percent from a February peak in Hong Kong as sales of its aging Haval H6 model fell and the company reported a quarterly profit decline. Now bears are doubling down: short interest in …