New-age financiers: Looking to do some good while earning a 51 percent yield? Indonesia’s the place. The nation of 260 million people is the perfect venue for fintech startups, from digital-credit-card providers to peer-to-peer lenders. Only half the over-15 population has bank accounts, while a paltry 2 percent hold credit cards. Traditional banks aren’t keen to enter the “subprime” consumer ...

After years of rumours and speculation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd finally presented a smartphone with a foldable display that it plans to start selling next year. At the risk of sounding like a wide-eyed teenager, I consider this a potentially disruptive innovation on the scale of the iPhone—if the manufacturers can handle it right. The technology has been more or ...

Bloomberg US equity futures and European stocks recouped some of the previous session’s losses on hopes for progress in the American-Chinese trade dispute, even as Asian shares dropped overall. Crude oil headed for the lowest close this year. Contracts on the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all traded higher and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose for the first time ...