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Bloomberg Japanese exports expanded for a fifth consecutive month in April, with shipments to China surging as global demand continued to support the nation’s economic recovery. Exports rose 7.5 percent from a year earlier (median estimate +8.0 percent), according to data released by the Ministry of Finance. Imports jumped 15.1 percent (median estimate +14.8 percent). The trade surplus was 481.7 ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s 10-year bond climbs as S&P Global Ratings’ upgrade on the nation fans speculation that inflows of global funds will increase. Foreign inflows to Indonesian bonds totaled $6.32 billion this year through, 42 percent more than from January to the end of May 2016. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecast in March that an upgrade could help attract as much ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co. is the latest US company to be investigated by European Union for possibly turning in misleading information during a merger review, according to two people familiar with the GE case. The European Commission is reviewing whether GE misled EU officials examining a deal to buy LM Wind Power, a maker of wind-turbine blades, for 1.5 billion ...

Bloomberg London house prices rebounded in May, rising to a record as buyers and sellers defied the usual trend of holding off on property transactions before an election. The average asking price in the city rose 2.1 percent from April to 649,864 pounds ($846,000), property website Rightmove Plc said on Monday, even with the upcoming UK general election on June ...

Bloomberg Clariant AG agreed to buy Huntsman Corp. in an all-stock deal valuing the US company at about $6.4 billion, extending a record run in transactions in the global chemicals industry. Huntsman holders will get 1.2196 shares in the new company, to be called HuntsmanClariant, for each share they own, with Clariant emerging with a 52 percent stake, the two ...

Bloomberg Cargoes from around the world filled with liquefied natural gas are sailing to Europe just when the region doesn’t really need them. Same-day gas in the UK fell the most since October as forecasts for the week showed summer is arriving early, weakening demand for the heating fuel. That comes just as LNG vessels that set sail for Europe ...

Bloomberg European Union ministers finalized their Brexit negotiating position a day after the UK threatened to quit talks on its departure unless the bloc drops its demands for a divorce payment as high as 100 billion euros ($112 billion). Governments of 27 remaining nations approved their mandate for EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier at a two-hour meeting in Brussels. The ...

To Indian eyes, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s big One Belt One Road Belt (OROB) Forum — which attracted 29 heads of government and representatives of 130 countries — looked awfully familiar. It looked, in fact, like an imperial durbar — the sort of grand spectacle that the British in India used to arrange periodically, with princelings from across the subcontinent ...

Economists still get a lot of flak for failing to predict the 2007-2009 recession. These criticisms are often misguided. Nonetheless, there’s an important sense in which forecasting models were badly mistaken — and probably remain so today. Critics of forecasting tend to misunderstand its purpose. Forecasters know perfectly well that, in a random world, the one certainty is that their ...

A blind spider creeping through America’s judicial thicket might be heading to the Supreme Court, which will have to decide if the contentment or even the survival of the Bone Cave Harvestman spider species, which lives only in two central Texas counties, is any of the federal government’s business. If it is, what isn’t? The US Fish and Wildlife Service ...