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Tariff tiff turn soy merry-go-round

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is turning the global soybean market into a merry-go-round. With Brazilian exports drying up at this time of the year, traders are having to get creative to supply the world’s largest buyer. One strategy is to bring US soy to Argentina and ship the South American nation’s output to China, thereby avoiding ...

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South Korea exports hit one-year high despite trade war

Bloomberg South Korean exports are holding up just fine so far as the US-China trade war escalates, with shipments jumping by the most in a year during the first 20 days of September. Exports rose 22 percent from the same period a year earlier, the biggest increase since September last year, according to preliminary data released by Korea Customs Service. ...

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Danske executives to be held accountable as probe deepens

Bloomberg Denmark’s financial supervisor plans to hold board members of Danske Bank A/S personally accountable if the lender is again caught misleading authorities. “Their heads are on the block,” Jesper Berg, director general of the Financial Supervisory Authority, said in an interview as his office resumes an investigation into Denmark’s biggest bank. Danske has admitted that a tiny Estonian unit ...

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