Bloomberg Pakistan’s key stock index declined the most globally on Monday as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was called to appear before a team investigating corruption allegations against his family. The nation’s benchmark KSE100 Index declined 3.8 percent at the close in Karachi, the most among 96 primary indexes tracked by Bloomberg. Habib Bank Ltd. was the leading decliner down 3.2 …

Bloomberg While a chorus of market experts is telling investors to look outside of the US for big returns, at least one loud voice is singing a very different tune — Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle. The 88-year-old investor, who started the first index fund in 1976, said that he’s fully invested in US securities, with stocks and bonds having …

Bloomberg Greece’s larger banks can take a leaf out of Attica Bank’s playbook. While the country’s four big banks are struggling to shrink their non-performing exposures (NPEs), smaller lender Attica Bank has become Greece’s first to turn to securitization as a way to both shrink its bad loans and close a capital shortfall. The Athens-based bank is using the services …