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Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed his country would expand its security role in Asia, and seek to bolster the rules-based order in a speech at an international security forum in Singapore. In the first keynote presentation by a Japanese premier at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in eight years, Kishida said he would lay out a “Free and Open ...

  Bloomberg A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was seized at a Hong Kong hotel five years ago and has lost much of his sprawling business empire to the Chinese government is about to go on trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. Prosecutors in Shanghai plan to charge Xiao Jianhua with illegal collection of public deposits, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar ...

Bloomberg The UK is making last-minute tweaks to planned legislation to override a portion of its Brexit deal, as the European Union prepares to relaunch legal proceedings as part of the bloc’s response to the move. The EU has drawn up a draft statement to follow a UK move, emphasizing a calm response and reiterating the need to return to ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is tapping the brakes on its China expansion, postponing its biggest mainland project, in a sign that weakness in Asia’s largest economy is prompting global banks to temper ambitious growth plans. The Zurich-based lender has delayed the targeted launch of its locally incorporated bank by a year to 2024, the second postponement since the ...

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co shares declined after a report that the bank is the target of a criminal investigation into whether it violated federal law by conducting fake job interviews of minority candidates to satisfy in-house diversity guidelines. The San Francisco-based firm is being investigated by the civil-rights unit of the Manhattan US attorney’s office, the New York ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) has concluded that emergency planning at the UK’s biggest banks means none should require a public bailout in event of a crisis. The central bank’s long-awaited response to the self-assessments of eight lenders, including HSBC Holdings Plc and Barclays Plc, found that their internal systems should avert the kind of state intervention needed ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to hold firm next week with expectations of policy adjustments this year weakening among economists unless the yen breaches the 140 mark against the dollar. All but one of 45 analysts said the bank will leave its yield curve control program and asset purchases untouched at the conclusion of a two-day meeting ...

  Bloomberg Peru raised borrowing costs for an 11th straight month with a half percentage point interest rate hike to curb the fastest inflation in a quarter century, which triggered rioting in the recent months. The central bank increased its policy rate to 5.5% from 5%, in line with forecasts. The new rate is the highest since 2009. Central banks ...

  Bloomberg Even the prospect of an historic rate hike isn’t enough to bolster the euro, which is feeling the weight of risks from the region’s uneven economic recovery and the war in Ukraine. The common currency shrugged off the European Central Bank’s (ECB) most hawkish messaging in more than a decade and its planned reversal from an era of ...

Bloomberg Investors are putting billions of dollars into cash and stock funds as they seek protection from surging inflation. Cash saw the biggest inflows in six weeks at about $54 billion, while exchange-traded funds led additions of about $12 billion into equities in the week through June 8, according to Bank of America Corp (BofA) note, which cited EPFR Global ...