Bloomberg It was the battery, after all. In a presentation and news conference on Monday that lasted more than two hours, Samsung Electronics Co. detailed the results of its investigation into Note 7 smartphones that overheated and burst into flames last year. There were few surprises. While the company cited flaws in battery manufacturing and design for the fiasco, …

  Bloomberg Steps to cool China’s property market are stoking speculation the good times are about to end for developer bonds offshore. The hangover would be big. Yield-starved fund managers around the world have piled into the $65 billion market for dollar-denominated notes sold by Chinese builders. There is plenty of scope for pain after yield premiums for lower-rated US-currency …

  Bloomberg Consumer prices in Singapore rose in December for the first time in more than two years, adding to signs of recovery in the city-state’s economy. CPI rose 0.2 percent from a year earlier, compared with unchanged prices in November. The median estimate of 16 economists in a Bloomberg survey was for a 0.1 percent gain Prices increased 0.2 …