Bloomberg As they guided Europe’s largest oil companies through the industry’s worst slump in two decades, the bosses of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc had a simple message for investors: we’ll protect the dividend at all costs. Not everyone is convinced they’ll be able to keep their word. Even after they raised billions of dollars by cutting ...

  Bloomberg With Indonesia’s tax amnesty coming to an end, authorities are now setting their sights on those who didn’t participate and continue to evade taxes. Officials plan to scrutinize credit-card data from banks and compare those with tax reports after the amnesty program uncovered more than $355 billion in previously undeclared assets. While the participants in the amnesty would ...

  Bloomberg China’s central bank will keep a tight rein on money-market rates this year, raising the cost of short-term funds at least twice in moves that will pressure bonds. That’s the consensus view in a survey of 29 fixed-income traders and analysts, with 20 saying that the People’s Bank of China will increase open-market operation rates by 10 basis ...