When it comes to the unemployment rate and the stock market, lower is not always better. Investors cheered jobs report, which showed that the unemployment rate in May dropped to 3.8 percent. That was a shift from much of the rest of the year, when investors have reacted to strong earnings numbers and positive economic news with concerns that it ...

Country Garden Holdings Co. has a message for Asian debt junkies — the party’s over. China’s largest real estate developer may need to return to the dollar bond market after suspending a planned 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) sale on May 29. The firm, no stranger to the offshore world, already squeezed in $850 million of issuance in January, just ...

As US President Donald Trump lobs tariff threats at China, Mexico and Canada, one of the world’s biggest economies has been largely absent from his rhetoric. And yet, Japan stands to bear the brunt of many of them. Unlike its neighbor South Korea, which was exempted, Japan has been struck with levies on steel and aluminum by a Trump executive ...