Bloomberg Posco, South Korea’s largest steelmaker, posted the largest quarterly profit since 2013 as a property and infrastructure boom in China boosts global prices, lifting earnings at Asian mills. Net income, excluding minority interests, was 539.3 billion won ($476 million) in the three months through September, after a 550 billion won loss a year earlier, the Pohang-based company said …

  Bloomberg Australia’s headline inflation accelerated last quarter, sending the currency up half a US cent and prompting money markets to pare bets on an interest-rate cut. Quarterly headline CPI increased 0.7%, exceeding the 0.5% median estimate in a survey of economists Trimmed mean CPI rose 0.4%, matching forecasts Annual headline CPI advanced 1.3%, beating a predicted 1.1% gain Annual …

  AFP Iran on Wednesday urged more Asian companies to invest in the country, saying the lifting of nuclear-linked sanctions had opened vast opportunities for foreign capital. Central bank governor Valiollah Seif told a business seminar in Singapore that reforms put in place since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013 helped restore economic stability while the lifting of the …