Bloomberg European stocks retreated and bond yields tumbled as comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and growth data in Europe stoked fear about a global dowturn. Oil extended losses. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index slipped about 1%, with miners and energy firms posting the biggest declines. Contracts on the Nasdaq 100 flipped to gains from losses while those ...

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son is used to praise and encouragement from shareholders. But company’s loss of $34 billion in market value over the last year is a test for even his most faithful admirers when they gather for the annual shareholders’ meeting. Investors stuck by Son when SoftBank announced a holding company strategy in 2015 to ...

  Bloomberg At least 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan overnight, setting off a new humanitarian crisis in a country already facing a crumbling economy and hunger. The eastern Paktika province was the worst hit, Sharafuddin Muslim, the deputy state minister for Disaster Management said. The state-run Bakhtar News agency ...