Bloomberg Thailand’s military establishment is intensifying attacks on a young political party that surged in March’s general election and whose 40-year-old leader is the newest symbol of opposition to the junta. The party, Future Forward, won about 18 percent of votes and is a key part of a coalition trying to prevent the junta’s proxies from forming the next government. ...

Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond reiterated his call to consider proposals for a second referendum on Brexit, while acknowledging that both the UK and the European Union are exasperated by the deadlock, as there’s little visibility on the next steps ahead of a key summit. “I understand that EU colleagues are somewhat fed up that the process has ...

Bloomberg Estonia moved towards a new governing coalition that includes a controversial anti-immigrant party, signalling the further spread of populism in the European Union. Prime Minister Juri Ratas’s ruling Center Party, which snubbed the election-winning Reform party and instead invited the euroskeptic EKRE to talks, overcame opposition from his party’s Russian-speaking members to agree on an alliance that also includes ...

If you think you understand what’s going on with the global economy, you’re probably not paying attention. On the one hand, the stock market is powering ahead. Since its recent low on December 24, it was up 22.4 percent, according to the Wilshire 5000 total market index, which measures the value of all publicly traded US stocks. That’s a paper ...

Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis has been largely self-inflicted, but now it’s passing some of consequences onto its suppliers. A crash of an Ethiopian Airlines-manned Max in March — just five months after a Lion Air jet of the same type went down — has put the planemaker at the center of a political, legal and increasingly financial firestorm where ...

Facebook Inc. has mastered an array of corporate aptitudes — including its use of euphemism and obfuscation. So when its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, writes an op-ed asking governments to impose some new regulation on his company, a little skepticism is in order. Make that a lot of skepticism. Zuckerberg’s proposals, published in Washington Post, cover four topics: “harmful content,” elections, ...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May stopped trying to get her fellow Tories to back her plan for quitting the European Union (EU), and asked the opposition Labour Party to come to her aid. Could this be that most elusive of Brexit developments: progress? Not exactly. For many reasons — politics, self-interest, the fundamentally incoherent task at hand — May and ...

If you are looking for the thriller movie that has captured the attention of global markets, this is certainly the trade negotiation between the US and China. It stars an unpredictable leader (President Donald Trump), an impenetrable rival (Chinese President Xi Jinping) and an issue which is typically secretive and hard to understand (trade talks). Equity and currency markets have ...

Masayoshi Son is a very clever man. SoftBank Group Corp., his giant Japanese conglomerate, is in talks with investors to add as much as $15 billion to its Vision Fund, according to Bloomberg News. The $100 billion venture capital fund has already deployed more than $70 billion in tech companies. Son is right on the money. Even if you set ...

The downfall of Carlos Ghosn, once idolised as the globe-trotting genius who turned France’s Renault SA and Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. into the world’s biggest automaking alliance, is turning into a tale of back-stabbing politics, corporate self-interest and excessive greed worthy of grand opera. It’s hard to see how anyone comes out of this looking like a hero – and ...