Bloomberg Ousted Tata Sons Ltd. Chairman Cyrus Mistry resigned as director of group companies as the units prepared to host shareholder meetings to remove him from the boards in a brawl for control of the $100 billion group. Mistry stepped down as a director in Tata Steel Ltd. and Indian Hotels Co., and as chairman of Tata Motors Ltd., …

  Bloomberg Japan posted a trade surplus for a third straight month in November as imports continued to fall faster than exports. Export values declined at the slowest pace since September 2015, with exports to China rising for first time since February. Exports fell 0.4 percent in November from a year earlier (forecast -2.3%), after declining 10 percent in October, …

  Bloomberg China’s overheated property market continued to cool in November as authorities rolled out renewed home-buying curbs to deflate a housing bubble. New-home prices, excluding government-subsidized housing, gained from the previous month in 55 of the 70 cities tracked by the government, compared with 62 in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday. Prices dropped in 11 cities, …