Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo urged his supporters to vote for a “fully white-haired” leader, his most upfront show of support yet for a presidential hopeful. “Look at the leader’s hair too, if it’s fully white, that means they are thinking about the people,” Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, said to his almost 150,000 supporters gathered at a ...

  Bloomberg Venezuela’s battling political factions restarted negotiations in Mexico, signing a rare deal to work together on a humanitarian spending plan and setting the stage for the US to ease rules on Chevron to operate in the country. Representatives of the Venezuelan government and the opposition signed a humanitarian agreement that seeks to get access to some of the ...

    Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) is imposing higher capital requirements on lenders including BNP Paribas SA and Deutsche Bank AG, arguing that they have ignored warnings to cut risk in the lucrative business of leveraged finance, according to people familiar with the matter. The French and German investment banks are among a handful of institutions who are ...