Bloomberg Australia’s central bank highlighted threats in the property market and an acceleration of domestic household debt even as it lent credence to the global reflation story. “Data continued to suggest that there had been a build-up of risks associated with the housing market,” the Reserve Bank of Australia said in minutes released on Tuesday of this month’s meeting ...

  Bloomberg Chinese acquirers are seeing a large number of cross-border deals blocked at home and abroad as a sharp increase in volume makes regulators on both sides of transactions more cautious, Linklaters LLP said in a report. Of the $220 billion deals announced by Chinese acquirers, $40 billion to $75 billion — or as much as a third of ...

  Bloomberg China UCF Group Co., the conglomerate led by businessman Zhang Zhenxin, is backing the acquisition of Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd. in a deal valuing the insurer at HK$7.1 billion ($914 million). Hong Kong Life’s owners, including Chong Hing Bank Ltd. and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., agreed to sell their holdings to an investment firm called First Origin International ...