Bloomberg Steps to cool China’s property market are stoking speculation the good times are about to end for developer bonds offshore. The hangover would be big. Yield-starved fund managers around the world have piled into the $65 billion market for dollar-denominated notes sold by Chinese builders. There is plenty of scope for pain after yield premiums for lower-rated US-currency ...

  Bloomberg Consumer prices in Singapore rose in December for the first time in more than two years, adding to signs of recovery in the city-state’s economy. CPI rose 0.2 percent from a year earlier, compared with unchanged prices in November. The median estimate of 16 economists in a Bloomberg survey was for a 0.1 percent gain Prices increased 0.2 ...

  Bloomberg The UK government will pick winning areas in the economy to champion as part of an industrial strategy aimed at boosting Britain’s productivity as the country prepares to leave the European Union. Announcing the long-promised plan on Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May said she wanted to see “sector deals” to identify and address barriers to expansion in different ...