Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is trying to keep dozens of customers suing over bogus accounts opened by its employees out of court, saying they agreed to resolve any disputes in arbitration when they began doing business with the bank. The lender also asked for the lawsuits, filed by 80 customers in federal court in Salt Lake City to …

  Bloomberg Tougher economic conditions and overcapacity in the steel, coal and cement sectors are making it harder and less profitable for China’s bad-loan managers to dispose of soured credits, according to a survey. Only 4 percent of 101 respondents at the nation’s distressed asset-management firms said they found it “easy” or “relatively easy” to dispose of bad loans, China …

  Reuters The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will seek a strategic stake in Turkey’s main stock exchange and collaborate on developing a gold trading platform for use by majority-Muslim countries, part of a broad agreement signed on Thursday. The Saudi-based IDB did not specify a size or timeframe for the acquisition of share capital in Borsa Istanbul, but said in …