South Korea’s headline inflation cooled to a five-month low in May and stayed below the central bank’s 2.0% annual target, justifying its resumed easing of policy to support economic growth, the Wall Street Journal reported. The benchmark consumer-price index rose 1.9% from a year earlier, following a 2.1% increase in April, the country’s statistics office said Wednesday. Price growth was largely kept in check by lower prices of oil products, fruits and vegetables, despite gains in the prices of some other agricultural and livestock goods, according to the statistics office.

The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has admitted Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. under the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) and has appointed Tehseen Fatima Khatri as the interim resolution professional (IRP), the Economic Times of India reported. The development followed an application filed by IDBI Trusteeship Services Ltd on behalf of the operational creditors. The trustee company had approached the tribunal after the company defaulted on its dues of more than Rs 88 crore.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the country's economy can withstand the hit from U.S. tariffs and sustain a cycle of rising inflation accompanied by wage growth, signalling the bank's readiness to raise interest rates further, Reuters reported. Uncertainty over U.S. trade policy and the range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration could hurt Japan's exports, prod firms to delay capital expenditure plans, and discourage them from raising wages, Ueda said on Tuesday. While an agreement between the U.S.

Chinese auto dealers on Tuesday called on automakers to stop offloading too many cars on dealerships, as intense price wars are pressuring their cash flow, driving down their profitability and forcing some to shut, Reuters reported. The proposal came on the heels of an official call over the weekend for the auto industry to halt bruising price wars. Conditions facing car dealers have become "even more severe" amid a new round of hefty discounting since the second quarter, the China Auto Dealers Chamber of Commerce said in a statement.

Builder.ai, the artificial intelligence startup that recently announced plans to declare bankruptcy, faked business with the Indian social-media startup VerSe Innovation for years to falsely inflate its sales, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and people with direct knowledge of the practice. The two companies routinely billed one another for roughly the same amounts between 2021 and 2024, documents reviewed by Bloomberg show, as part of an alleged practice known as "round-tripping" that the people said Builder.ai used to inflate revenue figures it presented to investors.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) of Think & Learn, the parent company of online education services company Byju's, even as it sought a response from the former’s creditors, Aditya Birla Finance and US lender Glas Trust Co. LLC, and others, the Economic Times of India reported.

Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner was sentenced to two years in prison by a judge in a New York court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in 2018 for his involvement in a multi-billion dollar scandal involving Malaysia's sovereign fund 1MDB, Reuters reported. Leissner's conduct was "brazen and audacious," judge Margo Brodie said during sentencing. While his cooperation with the government was taken into account, it did not make up for the harm caused by the corruption at the highest levels in several countries, the judge said.