Bloomberg The Maldives is reportedly planning to pull out of a free trade agreement with China as the island nation moves closer to India and the West after Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the presidency in a September election. The trade imbalance between China and the Maldives is “so huge that nobody would think of a free trade agreement between such ...

Bloomberg Asia, at the broad level, will lose from the US-China trade war, but a few countries will emerge as relative winners. Nomura Holdings Inc. found that a push by companies in the US and China for import substitution towards the rest of Asia will benefit Malaysia in particular, followed by Japan, Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, based on its ...

Bloomberg They have little chance of success, but the shareholder group trying to derail Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s $62 billion purchase of UK-listed Shire Plc is making last-minute attempts to win over investors. The dissident holders account for only about 1 percent of Takeda’s shares outstanding, but the group is raising its profile as the Japanese drugmaker inches toward completing its ...