Bloomberg Billionaire Shari Arison agreed to sell almost 10 percent of Bank Hapoalim Ltd. in what could become one of the biggest deals in Israel’s financial sector. Arison signed a non-binding agreement to sell 49 percent of her investment and philanthropy arm, Arison Holdings 1998 Ltd., to unidentified North America-based institutional investors and an investment firm, according to a Tel …

Bloomberg Zimbabwe will access a $600 million credit line from African Export-Import Bank in an effort to stave off a foreign-currency shortage that’s afflicted importers of everything from food to fuel. The southern African nation needs the assistance “especially during the foreign-exchange drought, which runs from October to February next year,” Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said at a ceremony Saturday …

Bloomberg After spending a year trying to prevent benchmark yields from rising above zero percent, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) now faces the challenge of stopping them from falling too low. Japan’s 10-year yield has gone from a one-year high in February to slipping below the BOJ’s targeted zero percent level earlier this month amid a bout of global risk …