International News

  Bloomberg Brazil’s Ibovespa equity index rallied to a 10-month high as traders increased wagers that President Dilma Rousseff will be impeached, paving the way for a new government to pull the economy out of its worst recession in a century. State-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA, iron ore miner Vale SA and lender Itau Unibanco Holding SA contributed the ...

Bloomberg Argentina can go ahead with a planned $15 billion bond sale to pay off holdout creditors from a 2001 default, ending more than a decade of litigation over repayment of the debt that kept South America’s second-biggest economy out of international credit markets. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York cleared the way for the bond sale by ...

  Bloomberg Argentina’s inflation will slow to the very top of its target range by year-end, the International Monetary Fund forecast, showing more optimism than most economists. Inflation will slow to the 25 percent ceiling of Argentina’s target range by year-end, the IMF said in its published World Economic Outlook. That is lower than all estimates from economists surveyed by ...

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India’s fuel demand grew 11 percent in the year ended March 31, the fastest pace in records going back to fiscal 2001. Fuel use rose to 183.5 million metric tons from 165.5 million tons in the previous period, according to preliminary data on the website of the Oil Ministry’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell. Diesel ...

Singapore / AFP Singapore announced a shock loosening of monetary policy on Thursday to kickstart the stuttering economy, as it forecast a slower growth outlook this year and analysts warned of a possible recession. The city-state’s central bank joined several others around the world in announcing easing measures as they battle sluggish global demand — particularly from key market China ...

  Beijing / AP China will “facilitate” the planting of genetically modified corn and other plants on an industrial scale in the next five years, officials said, after not authorising any new commercial GM crops for a decade. The controversial science is a key trade issue with the US, whose biotechnology giant Monsanto is a global leader in the field, ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Nikkei Inc.’s chief executive officer is taking the long view — the very long view — on the Japanese publisher’s $1.2 billion purchase of the Financial Times last year. While the deal took just five weeks to come together, Tsuneo Kita says it may take as long as 20 years to judge Nikkei’s investment in the ...

  Beijing / AFP Chinese exports surged in March, the first gain in nine months and the latest positive data out of the world’s number two economy, but analysts warned on Wednesday’s headline figure masked ongoing weakness in overseas demand. Official figures showing a better-than-expected jump in shipments abroad come just days after another strong inflation reading and last week’s ...

  New Delhi / Reuters India’s 2016/17 wheat imports are expected to surge more than five-fold to the highest in a decade, as a severe drought linked to an El Nino weather event and unseasonal rains push domestic output down to the lowest since 2011, a Reuters survey shows. A spike in overseas purchases by India, the world’s second largest ...

  Islamabad / Reuters Pakistan’s government will guarantee 100 billion rupees ($955 million) worth of Islamic bonds to fund what would become the country’s fourth largest hydropower plant, aiming to address power shortages that have hindered economic growth. The deal would be one of largest infrastructure sukuk sold to date, helping expand a funding format that has largely been confined ...