Reuters Middle Eastern stock markets fell on Tuesday because of the global downturn in equities, but the region outperformed emerging markets in Asia, where MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ex-Japan plunged 3.6 percent. Because of low oil prices and poor liquidity, the Gulf greatly underperformed the uptrend in global emerging markets in 2017, so fund managers say it may ...

Bloomberg India’s push towards universal health-care has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political opponents worried, a top government adviser said. Modi’s government announced a plan to provide health insurance to 100 million poor families, which would cover about 40 percent of the population. India plans to cover the entire population “sooner than later,” according to Rajiv Kumar, vice chairman of the ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Cnooc Ltd. are among 11 companies that will join the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, while China Railway Construction Corp. will be removed, Hang Seng Indexes Co. said in its quarterly review. The changes will take effect on March 5 and increase the number of constituents on the gauge to 50, the index compiler said ...