Bloomberg India forecasts its growth will slow to a three-year low even before the effects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cash clampdown start to show. Gross domestic product will grow 7.1 percent in the year through March, the Statistics Ministry said in a statement. However, the numbers don’t consider data from November onward, when Modi shocked the nation by ...

  Bloomberg Southeast Asia’s worst-performing currency of 2016 is in for another tough year with President Rodrigo Duterte’s spending plans seen boosting imports just as rising US interest rates spur capital outflows. The peso is forecast to be collateral damage as an economy growing faster than 7 percent and the government’s infrastructure program drive demand for inward shipments. This year ...

  Bloomberg Cofco Corp.’s Matt Jansen quit as the head of its international commodity trading unit, the latest setback to the ambitions of China’s biggest food company to create an agriculture merchant to rival the world’s largest. The firm named Cofco Vice President Jingtao Chi as his replacement. Jansen, who became chief executive officer of Cofco Agri Ltd. less than ...