Bloomberg Taiwan’s banks, voracious lenders to Chinese companies in recent years, are starting to cool their appetite as they contemplate the longer-term consequences of the US-China trade war. Faced with low interest rates at home, Taiwanese lenders — renowned for their clout in Asia’s syndicated loan market — poured across into the mainland, so much so that the local regulator …

Bloomberg Germany’s Bundesbank expressed confidence that the economy will quickly overcome its latest slowdown, even though it cautioned that growing protectionism and a disorderly Brexit pose threats to the outlook. The central bank lowered its growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019 and also cut its inflation outlook for next year. Output in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, contracted in the third …

Bloomberg Boeing Co. has kicked off its industrial foray into China, handing over the first 737 Max completed in the country to Air China as executives looked past simmering trade tension to a $2.7 trillion market opportunity. The jetliner was the first to be delivered outside the US by the Chicago-based planemaker, although the aircraft for all intents and purposes …