Bloomberg ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Temasek Holdings, is in talks with potential investors to raise $150 million to help finance its expansion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based startup is working with Morgan Stanley on the funding round, which is expected to value the company at about $1 billion, the people …

  Bloomberg Stocks rise on Wednesday as traders weighed the prospect of diminishing tension over Ukraine and the risk of further twists after Russia said it was withdrawing some forces. Shares were up in Japan, Hong Kong and China, where slowing inflation is boosting the central bank’s scope to ease policy to prop up growth. US futures were stable and …

  Bloomberg Japan’s sovereign yield curve has been jolted into life as a buyer’s strike and dovish central bank triggers a sharp steepening — setting the market aside from global peers. The move looks set to continue as the big institutions that dominate purchases of super-long maturities stick to the sidelines, hurt by the recent turmoil in global stocks and …