First China. Now India? In recent months, President Donald Trump has made clear that the trade war will reach beyond the People’s Republic. Not only has he threatened Japan and Europe with import duties on cars, he’s repeatedly blasted India as “the tariff king.” Trump has obsessed over the Asian giant’s high levies on Harley-Davidson motorcycles and complained about its ...

There’s a jarring disconnect at the heart of Australia’s 28-year economic miracle. The direction of the central bank’s latest forecasts has been clear: Estimates for the pace of growth were axed to 1.75 percent in the year to June 30, compared with 2.5 percent anticipated just three months earlier. Inflation, hovering below target since 2015, won’t climb back to the ...

Bloomberg NEF’s latest annual outlook for electric vehicles is here. As usual, there’s a lot packed into those 130-odd pages. Here are two nuggets to get you started. First, Bloomberg NEF forecasts sales of electric passenger vehicles – mostly all-electric but including plug-in hybrids – to overtake sales of those running solely on internal combustion engines in 2038. That sounds ...