Bloomberg India’s world-beating economic growth is running up against some big risks: high oil prices, emerging market stress as the era of easy money draws to a close, and policy paralysis in the run-up to next year’s federal election. Those factors may push the rupee, Asia’s worst performer this year, even lower, as well as dampen some of the optimism ...

Bloomberg US-based investment firm Varde Partners Inc. and Indian financial services provider Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. are creating a joint venture to invest in “stressed and distressed” assets in India. Birla Capital’s shares rose. Minneapolis-based Varde will take a 50 percent stake in Birla Capital’s asset reconstruction business for 980 million rupees ($13.9 million), the Indian firm said in a ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s equity bulls keep facing so many setbacks these days that you wonder when its loyal shareholders will cave. For them, it’s becoming all too familiar: the shares slump on some negative news and analysts rush to say buy, calling it an excellent time to load up on a stock that’s long been among Hong Kong’s most ...