Bloomberg Indonesian companies are warning investors to brace for yet another quarter of missed earnings as they continue to reel from the economic impact of the biggest outbreak of the coronavirus in Southeast Asia. The pandemic has hurt sales, from cars and luxury condos, in Southeast Asia’s largest economy after social distancing measures were introduced in March to contain the ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc has reached a $3.9 billion pact with Malaysia, marking a big step in the Wall Street giant’s efforts to resolve its worst scandal since the financial crisis. The settlement includes a payment of $2.5 billion to Malaysia to resolve probes into the US bank’s role in a scheme to plunder the Asian nation’s 1MDB investment ...

Bloomberg A man was killed during a protest in Texas as demonstrations against racial and social injustice continued across the US. The victim was fatally wounded at around 10 pm in Austin, police said. Initial reports indicated the man may have been carrying a rifle when he approached a vehicle, whose driver fired several shots, according to police, The suspect ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has reset his approach to the coronavirus pandemic in a bid to revive sinking poll numbers, but with 100 days until the election his campaign may need more than a change in tone to reverse its slide. Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden nationally and in key swing states by wide margins, grappling with a health crisis ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered a city near the border with South Korea locked down after officials found a person who may be infected with the coronavirus, state media reported. Kim attended an emergency meeting of the Workers’ Party and took the “preemptive measure” of isolating Kaesong City following the report on the suspected case, the Korean Central ...

Bloomberg Vietnam reported two locally-transmitted coronavirus cases after more than three months of no new infections of such, prompting authorities in the city of Danang to restrict activities to prevent a wider spread of the disease. One patient, a 57-year-old man, had been in Danang city for about a month and hadn’t traveled to other provinces, the government said in ...

Bloomberg Hanna, 2020’s first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening, bringing “life-threatening” storm surges, flooding rains and tree-toppling winds to south Texas. The storm came ashore with 90-mile-per-hour (145 kmph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 6 pm EDT. Hanna is moving west-south-west at about 8 miles per hour. A Category 1 storm, ...

Bloomberg The bad loan ratio in India’s banking sector is forecast to swell to the highest level in more than two decades after a prolonged lockdown hurt businesses and left millions jobless. Soured assets will rise to 12.5% of total advances by March 2021 — highest since the financial year started 1999 — from 8.5% a year earlier, the Reserve ...

Bloomberg South Africa is in talks with non-banking lenders to join its 200 billion rand ($12 billion) loan-guarantee measures as it seeks to improve access to finance for businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The government-backed program will have less stringent approval processes and extend repayment periods, the National Treasury, the South African Reserve Bank and the Banking Association of ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) may have adopted a new standard in deciding when to support stocks, according to Seiichi Suzuki, a market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute Co. While market consensus has it that the BOJ purchases ETFs when the Topix index falls at least 0.5%, recent buying patterns have changed, Suzuki said. “The bar for ETF ...