Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings Ltd.’s second-quarter profit declined 6 percent as provisions for troubled energy-services firm Swiber Holdings Ltd. overshadowed gains in interest and fee income. Net income fell to S$1.05 billion ($780 million) from S$1.12 billion a year earlier, Singapore’s largest bank said in an exchange filing Monday. That compared with the S$1.07 billion average of five analysts ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s Spanish asset-management unit is buying a shopping mall in Barcelona for 493 million euros ($547 million) from Northwood Investors LLC. The Diagonal Mar mall has shops operated by companies including Primark Stores Ltd. and Hennes & Mauritz AB and comprises 90,000 square meters (969,000 square feet) of leasable space, Deutsche Asset Management said in a ...

  Bloomberg The French economy is set to return to growth this quarter, the nation’s central bank said, as President Francois Hollande aims to cement a turnaround ahead of next year’s general election. Gross domestic product will rise 0.3 percent in the three months through September, the Bank of France (BoF) said on Monday. That’s more optimistic than economists in ...