Bloomberg Talk of consolidation among Singapore real estate investment trusts ramped up after the regulator strengthened rules governing the market in 2015. Four years on, it’s finally happening. OUE Commercial REIT said it had agreed to buy OUE Hospitality Trust to create one of Singapore’s 10 biggest REITs, giving the combined entity greater firepower to make acquisitions. It’s also the …

Bloomberg US equity futures and European shares edged down after President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on goods produced in the EU. The dollar slipped while Treasuries nudged higher. Contracts on the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq pointed to a weaker open and the Stoxx 600 Index erased an earlier gain as the European Union prepared retaliatory tariffs in response …

Bloomberg Japan announced new currency note designs today, sending shares of several somewhat obscure companies soaring. Glory Ltd — a provider of cash sorting machines — rallied as much as 19 percent, the most in more than 11 years, after the Ministry of Finance said that it plans to circulate new bill designs by the first half of the fiscal …