Bloomberg After years of declines, Singapore’s home sales are on a roll, even as purchases by foreign buyers have remained muted. Stringent stamp duties levied by the government have had the intended effect of damping speculative foreign demand, with foreign buyers accounting for just 6 percent of purchases in the first half, data from Cushman & Wakefield show. That compares ...

Bloomberg Greenland Holdings Corp., China’s fourth-biggest developer by property sales, said it had overdue loans of $69.2 million in some units in the northeast province of Liaoning at the end of June, underscoring concerns about the company’s debt problems. Companies under Greenland’s unit in Liaoning had overdue short-term debt of 247.5 million yuan, as well as 210 million yuan in ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ US President Donald Trump said that “all options” are under consideration in response to North Korea firing an unidentified ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday as Kim Jong Un’s latest provocation rattled markets. “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the ...