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South Korea has surged past France in stock market value, propelled by gains in technology shares riding the global boom in artificial intelligence....

Australia's core inflation came in stronger than expected in January, suggesting monetary policy settings may need to be tightened further and sending the currency higher....

Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan is set to report a significant narrowing of the city's budget deficit in an annual address, raising expectations for modest relief measures and further investments to spur innovation....

Reports of misconduct at Australian firms surged in the second half of last year, driven largely by corporate governance concerns, the nation's corporate watchdog said....

Mention markets are the high-octane, fast-twitch speed competitions of the prediction market world. But they're just one corner of it. Users of Kalshi and its primary rival, Polymarket, can bet on events major and minor, from politics to sports to culture to the weather. Recent markets on Kalshi have included whether certain words would be used during a Palantir Technologies Inc. earnings call, whether Elon Musk would win his court case against OpenAI and whether the highest temperature in Seattle on Feb. 4 would be within a certain range. Polymarket users have bet on whether the US would strike Iran on a particular date, whether a given Trump cabinet member would be the first to leave office and whether Jesus Christ would return before 2027. Bloomberg Businessweek Contributor Chris Beam joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. He speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)...

A few weeks ago, analysts at UBS Group AG laid out a worst-case scenario for defaults in the private credit sector. Their outlook is even more grim now....

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are ProShares' Mo Haghbin, Jefferies' Brent Thill, Saks Global's Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Elevance Health's Catherine Gaffigan, Planet Fitness' Colleen Keating, Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Jim Caron, Closing BellMizuho Securities' Nick Setyan, Natixis Investment Managers' Jack Janasiewicz, Stony Brook University's Stephanie Kelton, H/L Ventures' Oliver Libby, and Intelligent Alpha's Doug Clinton. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Just a month after surpassing the once-unthinkable 5,000 milestone, South Korea's equity benchmark has crossed another threshold as a surge in global memory demand powers the country's biggest chipmakers....

South African government debt is finally set to peak after rising for nearly two decades, a payoff from years of spending restraint and a commodities-driven revenue windfall....

Nippon Steel Corp. shares slumped after the company said it planned to sell almost $4 billion of bonds to help fund the acquisition of United States Steel Corp....

Wayve, the UK autonomous driving software startup, has raised $1.5 billion in funding at an $8.6 billion valuation as it prepares to go up against Chinese and US rivals to roll out self-driving taxis....

A New Mountain private credit fund sold $477 million of assets at 94 cents on the dollar as investors continued to fret about signs of stress in the $1.8 trillion market....

Wayve Ltd. CEO Alex Kendall discusses the UK self-driving company's global autonomy platform, its partnerships with Nissan, Mercedes and Stellantis, and plans for mass production of robotaxis. He also talks about high-margin software business with some of the world's largest OEMs, saying, “we're excited to see our technology go head-to-head.” Kendall speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie in London. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Lauren Goodwin, Economist and Chief Market Strategist at New York Life Investments, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the state of the US economy and inflation, Federal Reserve monetary policy, and more. Goodwin also discusses the lack of clarity around tariff inflation passthrough and the continuous fluctuation of supply chains and policy, which can then impact consumers directly and indirectly. Goodwin speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Oil gained as traders weighed the odds of a nuclear agreement between the US and Iran ahead of talks on Thursday, as a huge deployment of American forces in the Middle East kept the market on edge....

Gold declined slightly, extending a loss in the previous session, on reduced expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in the near term....

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. narrowly beat fourth-quarter profit estimates as strong wealth management fees buoyed the lender....

New Zealand's central bank is proposing banks provide nationwide access to free cash services, pushing back against years of branch closures and ATM fees to withdraw money....

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to telegraph her preferences for the Bank of Japan's interest rate trajectory by nominating two new policy board members, in her first such appointments....

Wesco International Inc. attracted almost $6 billion of orders for its junk bond offering on Tuesday, underscoring investors' appetite for companies riding the artificial-intelligence boom....