Bloomberg North Carolina investment firm founder Greg E Lindberg, who is awaiting retrial on charges he tried to a bribe state official, was indicted in a separate case alleging he orchestrated a $2 billion insurance fraud scheme. Lindberg, 53, and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Charlotte, court records show. They’re accused of improperly taking ...

  Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor nominee Kazuo Ueda warned against any magical solution to produce stable inflation and normalise policy as he largely stuck to the existing central bank script in the first parliamentary hearing to approve his appointment. During a session that lasted almost three hours, Ueda said the BOJ should continue with stimulus for now, while ...

  Bloomberg European stocks advance, while US index futures and Asian equities fell, as investors hunted for pockets of value amid hawkish central banks, disappointing earnings and further power consolidation in China. The dollar gained before data on the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index climbed for a second day. Contracts on the S&P 500 and ...