BLOOMBERG India has confronted Myanmar in recent months with intelligence showing that China is providing assistance in building a surveillance post on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the matter. Indian government representatives at various levels have shared satellite imagery with Myanmar counterparts that they said depicted Chinese workers helping to ...

OTTAWA / WAM Two people died and more than a million were without power after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most-populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines, Reuters reported. Just under a million people did not have power in Quebec and about 110,000 in Ontario ...

BLOOMBERG Policy-sensitive Treasury notes fell and US stock futures advanced after a solid March jobs report did little to alter views on the Federal Reserve’s next policy move. Futures on the S&P 500 erased losses to trade higher, while the two-year Treasury yield jumped 11 basis points to 3.94% after the March jobs report showed payroll growth moderated, while wages ...