Bloomberg Bidders for troubled air-bag maker Takata Corp. are leaning toward a court-mediated bankruptcy in Japan to shield them from liabilities, a move that the company had opposed on concern it would disrupt the supply of replacement parts, according to people familiar with the matter. Takata, which is seeking a sponsor after triggering the biggest safety recall in automotive …

  Bloomberg Singapore’s three-year decline in home prices could see relief from an unexpected quarter in 2017: Hong Kong. So says Cushman & Wakefield Inc., which expects the slide in the city-state’s home prices to end this year as foreign investors turned off by Hong Kong’s move to increase the stamp duty for overseas buyers look to Singapore instead. Desmond …

  A report published in the journal Space Weather this week makes for sobering reading. In four scenarios envisaging the economic impact of a solar storm, the mildest triggers a daily loss to the US economy of $6.2 billion, or 15 percent of daily output; the worst case sees a cost of $41.5 billion, wiping out every dollar the world’s …