The first stage of this emerging market currency crisis was all about how the problems of individual nations were spilling over into contagion — but without dollar strength as a factor. No longer. A nine-year high for US average hourly earnings in last week’s non-farm payroll report, combined with the strongest reading for the manufacturing PMI index since 2004, have ...

When a company decides to get out of a market by selling off its assets, is that a good sign for the business in question, or a bad one? The answer will weigh on potential buyers of Seaco Srl, the fourth-largest lessor of shipping containers. HNA Group Co., which owns the company via its control of Bohai Capital Holding Co., ...

Bloomberg In a meeting that was unthinkable 19 months ago, South Korea’s president will this week introduce the head of the country’s biggest conglomerate to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. The parley caps a remarkable period for Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., who since the start of 2017 has been arrested, tried and jailed before ...