Bloomberg Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau cautioned French voters about the costs of withdrawing from the euro, noting that local interest rates are already rising on concerns about this year’s presidential election. National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who wants to take France out of the single European currency, is on track to place first in …

    Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., Southeast Asia’s second-largest lender, fell the most in six months in Singapore trading after its quarterly profit missed estimates amid a surge in bad-loan provisions. Net income fell 18 percent to S$789 million ($554 million) in the three months to December from a year earlier, the Singaporean bank said on Tuesday in an exchange …

  Domsuehl / DPA “Colours are trendy. ” So goes the succinct explanation of Michael Gronwald, a 47-year-old light-show artist in the northeastern German state of Brandenburg. With about 30 other “bright guys,” his company are – literally – in charge of the visual highlights at events, rock festivals and city festivities all around Germany. In Parchim, 150 kilometres northwest …