Bloomberg A flood of data the day after the Bank of Japan held its monetary policy unchanged indicates that the modest recovery in world’s third-largest economy is continuing for a fifth quarter, yet inflation largely refuses to budge. Consumer prices excluding fresh food, the core measure for inflation, increased 0.2 percent in March from a year earlier (forecast 0.2 …

  Bloomberg Puerto Rico bondholders rejected Governor Ricardo Rossello’s debt-restructuring proposal days before a May 1 deadline to craft a deal or face a potential wave of creditor lawsuits. The Caribbean island is offering holders of its general-obligation bonds 77 cents on the dollar while proposing 58 cents on the dollar for its sales-tax debt, according to the commonwealth’s latest …

  Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group, the maker of Apple Inc.’s iPhones, said it plans a big increase in investments in the US after billionaire Chairman Terry Gou visited the White House over consecutive days, including a meeting with President Donald Trump. “We are engaged in discussions with officials at various levels of government regarding our ongoing plans to significantly increase …