Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank gave the first signs Thursday that it will begin normalising policy, even as it left its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Bank Indonesia kept the seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record-low 3.5% at its first monetary policy meeting of 2022, as predicted by all 29 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. In a briefing in Jakarta, …

  Bloomberg Stocks and futures were mixed as the global sovereign-bond selloff paused and investors turned their focus to corporate earnings. Energy companies were among the biggest declines in Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index, as crude oil slipped from a seven-year high, while the rally in metals boosted miners. US futures advanced. Treasury yields dipped, but remain higher for the week …

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. priced its biggest-ever yen bond on Thursday, using its popularity with retail investors to raise 550 billion yen ($4.8 billion) to pay off other debt. Billionaire Masayoshi Son’s technology conglomerate, which made headlines last year due to losses on Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc., has been the single-biggest issuer in the Japanese corporate bond …