Lending margins will be in focus this week when Asia’s largest banks report earnings, amid peaking interest rates chipping away at margins. Chinese lenders are also grappling with soured loans from the troubled real estate sector.

Venezuela’s María Corina Machado took a commanding lead in an early count of Sunday’s opposition primary after a demonstrative turnout, putting her in position to challenge President Nicolás Maduro in the most serious threat to the ruling socialist regime in at least a decade.

Singapore’s core inflation decelerated further in September, vindicating the central bank’s decision to leave monetary policy settings unchanged this month.

Subsidizing heat pump installations would cost less than EU countries’ annual spending on fossil fuel heating for homes, a new analysis suggests. 

World-renowned academic institutions and a national health care system are a big draw for biotech and life sciences industries.

Speculation that the Bank of Japan will make some kind of policy move this month continues to build with the weak yen, higher bond yields and stronger-than-expected inflation fueling the market chatter.

Switzerland’s right-wing People’s Party scored one of its best results ever in national elections, reaping the rewards of a campaign that leveraged concerns over immigration.

Japan’s antitrust watchdog has begun an investigation into whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google abuses its market position to block rival services, compounding scrutiny of the internet leader’s business practices across the globe.