Bloomberg Japan’s investors returned to developed bond markets in May, mopping up Treasuries, German bunds and French debt one month before a global selloff sparked by hawkish comments from major central banks. Investors bought a net 1.32 trillion yen ($11.6 billion) of US sovereign debt in May, the most in nine months, according to Japan’s balance-of-payment data released on Monday. …

Bloomberg For more than a year, Oi SA has struggled to reach a deal with various factions jockeying for a leg up in its $19 billion bankruptcy case. Almost entirely absent from that process? The company’s single biggest creditor. Brazil’s government claims that Oi owes telecom regulator Anatel as much as 20 billion reais ($6.1 billion), but current law forbids …

Bloomberg The world’s biggest industrial metals exchange is taking on the most powerful players in the gold market with the launch on Monday of its first futures contract for the commodity since the middle of the 1980s. The London Metal Exchange and its partners aim to grab a piece of the action in a city where almost half the world’s …