Bloomberg Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc is investing more than $700 million in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab, gaining access to millions across the region that use the mobile app to book cars and meals. The Japanese financial institution intends to market a range of financial services from insurance to loans to Grab’s millions of users, said a person …

Bloomberg Consumer price inflation in Canada ticked up in January, while the average of the central bank’s core measures slowed down. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up 2.4% from a year earlier, after a 2.2% gain in December. That beat economist expectations for 2.3% increase. Excluding gasoline, inflation rose 2% in January. On a monthly basis, inflation rose …

Bloomberg Singapore’s currency may tumble to the lowest level since 2017 if the central bank responds as strongly to the spread of the coronavirus as it did to the Sars epidemic two decades ago. That’s the view of Tan Teck Leng, a macro strategist at UBS Group AG’s Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office, who thinks the Monetary Authority of …