New Delhi / AFP State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, jumped the most in more than two months after reporting a bad-loan watch list that’s smaller than its closest rivals. Shares of the lender surged 6.4 percent to 195.90 rupees in Mumbai trading, paring this year’s losses to 13 percent. About 313bn rupees ($4.7bn) of State Bank’s ...

  Beijing / AP China’s largest private property developer, the Wanda Group, opened an entertainment complex on Saturday that it’s positioning as a distinctly homegrown rival to Disney and its $5.5 billion Shanghai theme park opening next month. Wanda executives unveiled their $3 billion “Wanda City” in the southeastern provincial capital of Nanchang to thundering music reminiscent of the “Pirates of ...

  Paris / AFP The French government maintained a hard line on Saturday ahead of a fresh wave of protest over a bitterly-disputed labour law that has seen demonstrators blockading oil refineries and strikes paralysing the transport network. The escalating unrest, which has gathered pace over the last week sparking petrol shortages that forced the government to dip into strategic ...