Bloomberg Business

Shares of a small Japanese chip design firm have quintupled since it listed in October, supercharged by expectations of a boom in silicon demand driven by artificial intelligence.

The global oil market faces fresh risks from the uprising in Russia by mercenary group Wagner, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., although it cautioned that the near-term impact was likely to be muted.

Korea’s retail investors are ramping up their bets on yen-denominated assets — including a US bond fund — as they seek to gain extra profits from the currency’s sharp fall against the local won.

A Bank of Japan policy board member sought an early discussion over revising the bank’s yield curve control, saying the cost of sticking with the measure is high, according to a summary of views from the June meeting.

Palm oil, found in everything from candy to instant noodles and soap, is likely to get costlier in the second half as a US drought and an intensifying El Niño curb world edible oil supply, a Bloomberg survey showed.

Shortages of the “right kind” of talent are holding back Japanese growth in sectors from tourism to the financial industry, according to the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Japan’s impressive stock rally may cool in the second half of this year as the highly cyclical market is susceptible to an expected global economic slowdown, according to Melbourne-based Talaria Capital.

Argentina’s main opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio has taken the lead in an analysis of polls ahead of the Aug. 13 presidential primary, Clarin newspaper reported.

China said it supports Russia’s actions to maintain national stability, a day after Moscow defused the biggest threat to President Vladimir Putin’s rule.

Thailand’s baht slid to the lowest level since March last week but there are reasons to believe it will bounce back in coming months.