Bloomberg Yoshitaka Kitao wants to build a financial empire in an area shunned by investors: the downtrodden ranks of Japan’s regional banks. The chief executive officer of SBI Holdings Inc says he has close to $1 billion to plow into any of the 104 local lenders scattered across Japan, which were described recently by one analyst as an “accident waiting …

Bloomberg US equity-index futures extended a retreat alongside European stocks on Tuesday as investor optimism over looming trade talks was knocked by news the White House is moving towards possible restrictions on capital flows into China. Treasuries and gold advanced. Contracts for the three major US gauges had gained earlier, but they reversed after China said it strongly opposed an …

Bloomberg Chinese stocks rose as they traded for the first time in a week, with investors focusing on the upcoming trade talks with the US. The CSI 300 Index closed up 0.6%. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co halted trading after they were placed on a US blacklist along with six other Chinese technology firms. Hong …