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German insurers are the most exposed in Europe to illiquid corporate bonds, a top watchdog said in one of the most detailed reports to date on the industry's investments in private credit....

Inflation in Canada held steady last month while core measures broadly cooled, as slowing price growth for services was offset by rising costs for goods....

Troubled conglomerate Novonor SA is closer to a deal to sell its controlling stake in petrochemical giant Braskem SA to a fund advised by asset manager IG4 Capital....

Indian officials said they expect oil imports from Russia will drop to 800,000 barrels a day this month, after they tightened checks to ensure compliance with Western curbs....

Chilean stocks hit a fresh record in early trading on Monday and the peso held near a 14-month high after ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast won the presidency by a landslide, heralding the nation's most dramatic rightward shift in decades....

New York state factory activity unexpectedly shrank in December after two solid months of growth as orders stalled and shipments retreated....

Turkish officials are considering new measures to sharply raise the bar for retail investors seeking to pile cash into hedge funds after market upheaval last month, according to people familiar with the discussions....

AQR Capital Management is riding high again, topping benchmarks across strategies and growing assets at a record pace. In the process of engineering a comeback, however, the quant pioneer has reined in a policy that once made it an outlier among hedge funds: An unusually open approach to explaining how it invests....

BASF SE will refrain from compulsory job reductions at its main Ludwigshafen site for at least three years, sparing the plant from forced cuts as German industry struggles....

A flare up in high-profile corporate buyouts is likely to spread into 2026, spurring demand for leveraged financing that could double by some estimates, according to debt managers....

Brazil's activity unexpectedly dropped in October, in the latest sign Latin America's largest economy is cooling off....

Nigerian inflation eased more than anticipated in November, strengthening the case for policymakers to resume interest-rate cuts when they next meet in February....

A widely anticipated interest-rate cut by the Bank of England this week will force policymakers to confront whether their easing cycle is nearing its end almost 1 1/2 years after it began. Ukraine and the US are due to hold a second day of talks in Berlin on a plan aimed at ending Russia's war, with allied security guarantees for Kyiv a central focus of the negotiations. The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards and Lizzy Burden. (Source: Bloomberg)...

The Bondi Beach massacre marks the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia's history, and the most fatal mass shooting since a lone gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania on April 28, 1996. That tragedy prompted lawmakers to implement sweeping gun control measures just weeks afterward. Already it's becoming evident that Sunday's bloodshed will likely lead to a similar policy debate, this time touching on everything from gun control to immigration and Australia's relationship with Israel. Albanese has been criticized by the conservative opposition for months for failing to do enough to stem the tide of antisemitism in the country. Today's guests: Laura Cooper, Nuveen, Global Investment Strategist; Anna Rosenberg, Amundi Institute, Head of Geopolitics; David Morris, FTI Consulting, UK Head of Restructuring. (Source: Bloomberg)...

The two chief executive officers of Netflix Inc. laid out the company's case for acquiring Warner Bros Discovery Inc., after rival Paramount Skydance Corp. went public with a competing, hostile offer....

Sweden's biggest commercial banks are among 13 financial companies taking part in a new government-run initiative to better protect the country from threats of hybrid warfare such as cyberattacks....

UBS Group AG's need for the highest-quality form of capital would drop to around $400 million if a compromise proposal on controversial regulatory reforms put forward by Swiss lawmakers last week was adopted, according to estimates from JPMorgan Chase & Co analysts....

The nuclear industry is expected to switch on 15 reactors globally in 2026, a big jump after total capacity actually shrank by 1.1 gigawatts this year, according to BloombergNEF....

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. announced plans to acquire a controlling stake in a Chinese company that developed the country's first indigenous therapy for Alzheimer's disease only to wind up later suspending sales and production....

Trump's desire for US energy dominance could mean higher prices at home....