Bloomberg Everbright Securities Co. raised $1.1 billion after pricing its Hong Kong first-time share sale above the midpoint of a marketed range. The Chinese brokerage sold 680 million shares at HK$12.68 each, after earlier offering them at HK$11.80 to HK$13.26 apiece, according to terms for the deal obtained by Bloomberg on Friday. The final price represents a 38 percent ...

  Bloomberg International Monetary Fund staff said that 19 trillion yuan ($2.9 trillion) of Chinese “shadow” credit products are high-risk compared with corporate loans and highlighted the danger that defaults could lead to liquidity shocks. The investment products are structured by the likes of trust and securities companies and based on equities or on debt — typically loans — that ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s economy will expand 2.7 percent this year and 3 percent next year, the International Monetary Fund said in a statement, which also welcomed recent fiscal and monetary stimulus in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The nation has “considerable fiscal space” to manage challenges to growth such as an aging society and high household debt, the fund’s directors said ...