It may just take the likes of Paul Elliott Singer to make SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son adjust his approach. Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. has taken a $2.5 billion stake in the Japanese company — that’s about 3% — with a view to bend Son’s ear, the Wall Street Journal reported. Elliott confirmed to Bloomberg Opinion that it invested in ...

Coronavirus is spreading at an accelerating rate, but inappropriate quarantines and travel bans could cause more havoc than the disease itself. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a duty to protect human health, but also an obligation to protect the world’s citizens from the human rights violations or unnecessary economic hardship that panic could cause. So far, they’re doing a ...

Almost all of Asia’s central bankers have said the economic risks from the Wuhan coronavirus are significant. Then why aren’t they all taking action? In a slew of interest-rate meetings, policymakers have been all over the map. Thailand surprised most economists by reducing rates, while the Philippines cut and India held, as anticipated. The Reserve Bank of Australia acknowledged the ...