Bloomberg Mario Draghi called on politicians to help the European Central Bank’s bid to restore economic health to the region by accelerating reforms. “There are many understandable political reasons to delay structural reform, but there are few good economic ones,” the ECB president said in a speech in Brussels on Thursday. “The cost of delay is simply too high.” ...

  Bloomberg Brazil kept borrowing costs unchanged as a new central bank president is set to take over the challenge of slowing inflation to target without exacerbating the worst recession in over a century. Policy makers, led by departing bank President AlexandreTombini, on Wednesday voted unanimously to keep the Selic at a near-decade high of 14.25 percent for a seventh ...

  Bloomberg Dell Inc. paid up to sell $3.25 billion of junk bonds that will help finance its takeover of EMC Corp., just as it did last month in a $20 billion offering of investment-grade debt. The computer maker sold the longer part of its offering, $1.625 billion of eight-year bonds, for a yield of 7.125 percent, about 1.31 percentage ...