SHARJAH / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Deputy Chairman of the Sharjah Executive Council (SEC) chaired a meeting of the council at the Ruler’s Office in Sharjah. The council reviewed various issues on its agenda concerning achieving the vision of the Emirate of Sharjah. After the ratification of the minutes ...

Bloomberg South Korean financial regulators will start a probe into sales of derivative products that carry the risk of individual investors losing almost all their money depending on moves in overseas market rates. Those products include 127 billion won ($105 million) of securities tied to the German 10-year government bond yield, according to a statement from the Financial Supervisory Service. ...

Bloomberg Two months of increasingly chaotic protests in Hong Kong are driving investment money out of the city and into Thailand’s ultra-luxury condominiums, according to one of the biggest developers in the Southeast Asian country. Some 40% of the condos in a 52-story Bangkok tower that opened last week have already been sold to buyers from mainland China, Hong Kong, ...