Bloomberg A residential plot in Singapore may fetch a record price for a government land sale, with a Chinese consortium putting in the highest bid at S$1 billion ($718 million). Logan Property (Singapore) Co. and Nanshan Group Singapore Co. submitted the highest bid in the Stirling Road land auction, according to a statement from the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The winning ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s mining company may be asked to pay as much as $1.2 billion to former partner Vale SA after choosing not to attend an arbitration hearing in London in a dispute over one of the world’s richest mineral assets, two people with knowledge of the case said. The decision by Steinmetz’s BSG Resources Ltd. to back out ...

Bloomberg The UK may find itself in a rare position of becoming a net impo- rter of wheat this season. Imports have exceeded demand in recent months, and if that continues the nation could finish the season that ends in June as a net buyer, according to the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board. That’s only happened three times in the ...