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Dai-Ichi Life Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest publicly-traded insurer, jumped in Tokyo trading after announcing a share buyback plan and a better-than-expected annual profit forecast.

As a short and intense earnings season winds down, Europe’s biggest companies can look back on a quarter of mostly positive results. This week’s lineup may deliver more of the same, at least if the prognoses for Siemens AG and Burberry Plc are anything to go by.

A US watchdog found that $10 million in World Bank borrower funds were awarded to contractors with possible links to Huawei Technologies Co., exposing a rift between Washington’s national security priorities and the policies of the global development lender, where the US is the largest shareholder.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s Australia unit said Ziggy Switkowski will lead an independent review into its governance and culture after a scandal of unauthorized sharing of confidential tax policy information rocked the firm.

Fierce competition for new mortgage customers is driving banks in Hong Kong to offer the highest cash rebates in nearly two decades.

Japanese stocks advanced for a second day, pushing the Topix closer to reaching its highest level since August 1990, with strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. saying solid fundamentals and expectations for structural changes “justify a bullish stance” on the nation’s equities.

Google is adding two new features to its image search to reduce the spread of misinformation, especially now that artificial intelligence tools have made the creation of photorealistic fakes trivial.

Shares of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s group declined on Monday after boards of two firms approved proposals to raise as much as $2.6 billion, with market watchers flagging concerns about potential equity dilution.

Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. issued an apology in response to allegations that founder Johnny Kitagawa sexually abused young men represented by the firm.