Europe’s economic malaise has a lot to do with its crippled banking system. Making that system more fragile seems like the wrong way to address the issue. With the European Central Bank taking interest rates deeper into negative territory and the euro-area economy languishing, investors have become more concerned about the future profitability — and perhaps the viability — of ...

Asia and the Pacific are recognized for leadership in global output, trade, and development. The region has a new opportunity to lead on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a multidimensional, multisectoral, and multiagency undertaking. In 2016, the first year of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), our region faces significant challenges: prioritizing SDG implementation; pace and sequencing; ...

BLOOMBERG Emerging-market currencies and stocks rose for a third day as Chinese inflation data spearheaded an advance in the nation’s equities and a gauge of the dollar extended losses. Ukrainian bonds gained the most in a month after the country’s premier resigned. China’s stocks rose the most this month amid signs of a pickup in industrial demand. Sberbank PJSC led ...