Bloomberg Glossier, the direct-to-consumer beauty brand, is joining forces with Sephora to mass market its popular products. The deal is the brand’s first-ever partnership with a retailer. Beginning early next year, Glossier will appear in stores across the US and Canada and will be sold on Sephora.com and the Sephora app, Glossier said in a statement. The move looks ...

Bloomberg US President Joe Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he doesn’t support a formal declaration of independence by Taiwan in the first conversation between the two leaders since March, the Beijing government said. Xi told Biden that it’s the will of the Chinese people to “resolutely safeguard China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity” regarding Taiwan and that “whoever ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatened to “eliminate” South Korea and said he was ready for any battle with the US in a speech to mark the 69th anniversary of the deal that ended fighting in the Korean War. Kim, making his first appearance in public in nearly three weeks, delivered one of his strongest rhetorical attacks against South ...

  Bloomberg A US aircraft carrier and strike group have entered the South China Sea as part of what the 7th Fleet said was a scheduled operation amid rising tensions with China over a potential Taiwan visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier, made its way to the disputed waters following a five-day ...

  Bloomberg Malaysia’s parliament on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill to curb defections by lawmakers, a major cause of political instability and a sign that elections may be round the corner. The ban on party-hopping was approved with a more than two-thirds majority and is part of a series of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri in September aimed ...

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc maintained their best lending rates Thursday even as the city’s monetary authority raised its base rate to keep pace with the Federal Reserve, a move that will likely stave off some pressure on homeowners and businesses for now. Hours after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said it would raise its ...

  Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) intervention in the foreign-exchange market to protect the rupee that tested a series of record lows in recent months is pushing shorter rates to multi-year highs. The government’s borrowing costs for a three-month Treasury bill surged to the highest in three years at an auction. The weighted average call rate, an interbank ...

  Bloomberg Visa Inc said it will dole out annual raises for more-junior employees earlier as it seeks to help staffers battling once-in-a-generation levels of inflation. The payments giant will award the pay increases to employees at the level of senior vice president and below during its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends on September 30, Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu ...

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA earnings beat expectations, as rising revenue helped the Spanish retail-banking giant offset the impact of increased costs and surging inflation. Spain’s biggest lender posted net income of 2.35 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in the second quarter, exceeding the analyst consensus of 2.25 billion euros as net interest income jumped 7.9% from the first three months ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s asset management unit saw outflows for a second consecutive quarter, marking an abrupt end to a period of growth that saw assets under management touch a record last year. DWS group’s clients pulled $25.4 billion in the three-month period, according to a statement. That missed the 403.3 million-euro consensus of inflows forecast by analysts polled ...