Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Group will spend $1.6 billion to develop autonomous vehicles with Aptiv Plc, marking one of the biggest investments yet by a traditional carmaker into the burgeoning robocar industry. Aptiv will take a 50 percent stake in the venture, while Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Mobis Co and Kia Motors Corp will contribute a combined $1.6 billion in cash and ...

Not all high-yield bonds are on a hot streak. On its face, the US junk-bond market appears as if it can do no wrong. The average yield on the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Index dropped to a 20-month low of 5.58% on September 18. Investors poured $3.3 billion into junk-debt funds this week, the most since February. Overall, ...

The Federal Reserve has now lowered its target interest rate for overnight loans between banks twice since the end of July. The central bank’s economic projections and Chairman Jerome Powell’s post-meeting news conference suggest policy makers aren’t quite ready to cut rates a third time, and will need to see either weaker economic data or an intensification of the US-China ...