Bloomberg South Korea bowed to pressure from its increasingly dominant retail investors and extended its pandemic-imposed ban on short-selling until May 2. The ban, which had been scheduled to expire on March 15 — a year after it was put on place — will be lifted on May 3 for stocks on the benchmark Kospi 200 Index and the small-cap …

Bloomberg Opec and its allies can celebrate their success in buoying world oil markets when they gather this week. But the coalition will soon be faced with some tough choices. Last month’s pledge by Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman to slash production by a further 1 million barrels a day has buttressed global markets against the latest …

Bloomberg Boeing Co signalled it’s at risk of losing more than a third of its 777X order haul because the latest delay to the behemoth jet’s debut — now slated for late 2023 — gives some customers the right to walk away from sales contracts. The US planemaker lowered the backlog for the 777X family to just 191 jets in …