Bloomberg Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Co., India’s largest bad loan buyer, plans to request a winding up of Bharati Defence & Infrastructure Ltd. under the country’s new bankruptcy law, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company aims to file a petition in about a month against the Mumbai-based shipbuilder, whose shares have fallen more than 50 percent …

  Bloomberg Volkswagen AG’s nearly decade-old plot to cheat US emissions tests — all while marketing its diesel cars as environmentally friendly — was quickly unraveling by 2015. A campaign to mislead regulators was failing so badly that top executives signed off on a script for employees to use when questioned. It didn’t work. The next day, August 19, 2015, …

  Bloomberg Brazil slashed its benchmark interest rate in a surprisingly aggressive move, as policy makers ratcheted up their efforts to jumpstart the country’s shrinking economy. The central bank board, led by President Ilan Goldfajn, unanimously voted on Wednesday to lower the benchmark Selic rate by three quarters of a point to 13 percent — a move that was predicted …