Bloomberg Stronger-than-expected new-car sales last month belied a dirty little secret: Automakers have been selling more vehicles to rental fleets in recent months to prop up volume. Deliveries to rental-car companies and other non-retail buyers accounted for more than a third of total sales last month for Ford Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co, according to data from researcher Cox ...

Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn will remain in jail until at least April 14 after a Japanese court granted prosecutors’ request to keep the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co longer for questioning on new allegations of funneling millions of dollars from the automaker for his own purposes. The court disclosed its decision in a statement. The former global auto titan, who ...

Bloomberg China’s foreign-currency holdings rose for a fifth month as lower government bond yields in developed markets lifted valuations. Reserves increased by $8.58 billion to $3.0988 trillion in March, the People’s Bank of China said on Sunday. The reading compares with $3.09 trillion from the previous month and the median estimate of $3.09 trillion in a Bloomberg survey of economists. ...