Bloomberg Western Digital Corp. said it’s in talks with Japanese government-backed investment funds as it tries to win a battle for Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory unit. The San Jose, California-based maker of storage media has held discussions with Innovation Network Corp. of Japan and Development Bank of Japan Inc. about options for a bid, said Mark Long, Western Digital’s ...

  Bloomberg Japanese exports grew at the fastest rate in more than two years in March, supporting a moderate economic recovery in the face of weak domestic demand. Exports rose 12 percent from a year earlier (median estimate +6.2 percent), according to data released by the Ministry of Finance. Imports jumped 15.8 percent (median estimate 10 percent), the biggest gain ...

  Bloomberg SAIC Motor Corp., China’s biggest carmaker by sales, has halted a plan to export its own branded vehicles to the US until it gets more clarity on Sino-US trade policy under President Donald Trump. SAIC Motor, which has joint ventures with General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG in China, has been exporting locally-made Buick Envision sport utility vehicles ...