Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans a one-to-eight share split, as the e-commerce giant prepares for a stock sale that could be Hong Kong’s largest since 2010. China’s largest company is proposing to increase the number of ordinary shares eight-fold to 32 billion, it said in a statement. The proposal will be discussed and put to a vote at its ...

Bloomberg Spare a thought for Japan’s yield-starved investors. Not even three months into a new fiscal year, a gauge of global bond yields has slumped to the lowest since 2017 and the yen has strengthened against almost all its major peers. Assumptions made when investment plans were released in April are being rapidly reworked. A shift to longer-maturity bonds, increased ...

Bloomberg Trade-reliant Singapore just took another big hit in the latest data, and the implications for the economy are looking serious. Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports plunged in May by the most since February 2013, driven by an ongoing slump in the electronics sector that’s now the worst in more than a decade, Enterprise Singapore figures showed on Monday. Both trade-war ...