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  Bloomberg China has released plans to relax restrictions on foreign investment and make it easier for overseas companies to list on domestic markets, as Premier Li Keqiang pushes ahead with efforts to open up the world’s second-largest economy. The government will ease overseas investment curbs on banking, securities, futures, mutual funds and insurance, according to measures approved by Li ...

  Bloomberg Rio Tinto Group and its largest shareholder Aluminum Corp. of China have terminated their joint venture established to find copper deposits, as global mining companies tighten exploration budgets. Chinalco Rio Tinto Exploration Co., a joint venture between Rio and Aluminum Corp., also known as Chinalco, was launched in 2011 to seek out deposits in China and had plans ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi has something to cheer about even as economists slash India’s growth forecasts. A clutch of studies and surveys published around the World Economic Forum show that perceptions about India’s outlook are improving, closing the gap with China. The results will be heartening for Modi, who’s under fire at home for his shock currency withdrawal ...

  Bloomberg President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Food and Drug Administration should have a medical background, and the agency should continue evaluating new medications’ effectiveness, drugmaker executives said in comments indicating opposition to two candidates for the regulator’s top post. Trump’s FDA chief should be a doctor or physician-scientist with experience in clinical care and medical research, ...

  Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc won approval from a UK judge for its settlement with British prosecutors as the US Justice Department unsealed a parallel agreement with the company in Ohio the day after the company announced it would pay $800 million in total to resolve bribery probes in both countries as well as Brazil. In London, Judge Brian Leveson ...

  Bloomberg London Mayor Sadiq Khan will urge business leaders to warn their governments of the threat posed to Europe by the “hard Brexit” advocated by UK Prime Minister Theresa May in her speech. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Khan, who is a member of the opposition Labour Party, was expected to say that securing “privileged” access ...

  Bloomberg Oil companies and UK retailers are the sectors most likely to come under financial stress in Europe this year, even as central bank stimulus keeps borrowing costs near historic lows, according to S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings. With the European Central Bank committing to an asset-purchase program until at least December, leveraged companies can refinance their debt ...

  Bloomberg With US railroads forecast to report their first earnings growth since 2015, a stock rally that began in anticipation of the profit rebound is looking overdone. An index of major carriers has jumped more than 55 percent since sinking to a three-year low Jan. 25, more than doubling the S&P 500 Index’s return. The surge pushed railroad stock ...

  Bloomberg Kuwait Investment Authority is planning to manage more of its own assets as the world’s fifth-largest sovereign wealth fund seeks to take more risk to boost returns. The KIA, as the fund is known, wants to increase the allocation of funds managed in-house to as much as 8 percent from 1 or 2 percent at present, Managing Director ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s growth this year will be “significantly higher” than the International Monetary Fund’s new forecast, according to Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan. Economic expansion will be “north of 1 percent,” Al-Jadaan said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The IMF lowered its forecast to 0.4 percent from 2 percent in its World Economic ...