Bloomberg Private-home sales in Singapore soared in March as developers marketed more projects after a typically slower February that included the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. Developers sold 1,054 units last month, more than double the 455 in February, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said in a statement. Residential home prices decreased for a second straight quarter in the three months ...

Bloomberg India’s southwest monsoon, which waters more than half of the country’s farmland and is crucial for economic growth, is expected to be ’near-normal’ this year as the risk of an El Nino weather pattern looms. Annual rainfall during the June-September rainy season is likely to be 96 percent of a long-term average, the India Meteorological Department said. The forecast ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co’s ability to make inroads into Europe’s future telecom infrastructure may be more about regulatory hurdles than outright bans. The US has been engaged in a vocal campaign to keep Chinese tech companies out of advanced 5G networks that promise faster connections, enabling uses such as autonomous vehicles and remote surgery. US President Donald Trump’s administration has ...

Bloomberg A year into his tenure, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess is entering critical months as he seeks to expand the carmaker’s sprawling Chinese operations while containing tensions at home in Germany. The Chinese market is leading a global shift towards electric vehicles and will take on a bigger role for the German automaker as both a production hub and a ...

Bloomberg Just months after being freed from US sanctions, Russia’s largest aluminum maker plans to invest in a new aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky. United Co Rusal, controlled by billionaire Oleg Deripaska until the US Treasury forced him to reduce his stake earlier this year, intends to invest up to $200 million in the plant being built by closely held ...

Bloomberg Job vacancies in London’s finance industry have halved in two years as uncertainty over Brexit knocks business confidence, a survey by recruiter Morgan McKinley has found. The number of jobs available in the city’s financial services industry and the number of finance professionals seeking new jobs have each fallen by more than half in the past two years, the ...

Bloomberg The European Union has taken a closer look at how Google uses operations in Ireland to help reduce its corporate tax obligations within the trade bloc, two people familiar with the matter said. Officials from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, held in-depth talks with Irish authorities late last year about whether the Internet-search unit of Alphabet Inc. ...

Bloomberg Trafigura Group Ltd. will take control of Nyrstar NV, Europe’s biggest zinc smelter, as part of a deal to restructure the struggling company’s debt and steer it away from bankruptcy. Under the agreement, Trafigura — Nyrstar’s main shareholder as well as a top supplier, customer and financier — offered a package of its own debt securities to Nyrstar’s creditors ...

Bloomberg Sudanese pro-democracy protesters won further concessions from the army that overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, as upheaval in the ruling military council signals a power struggle among the remnants of his 30-year regime. Since taking control, the council has cancelled its curfew, freed prisoners, changed leadership and vowed to review laws that brought trials for perceived indecency or apostasy, all ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in said it’s time to prepare for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, commenting just days after returning from a visit to the White House where he tried to get faltering nuclear negotiations back on track. Moon, who has tried to be a bridge between Kim and President Donald Trump, said North Korea’s leader ...