Bloomberg India sought to defuse growing tensions with its central bank following reports that the government had cited a never-used legal provision in trying to resolve disagreements with the monetary authority. The Finance Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday it respects the autonomy of the Reserve Bank of India. That was after news broke that government officials had written …

Bloomberg Fears of a prolonged market downturn, slowing international sales, stepped-up competition in the US and flat-out confusion about how Amazon.com Inc. makes money are all reasons behind the company’s dizzying 25 percent drop in value from its September high. The world’s largest online retailer had been an investor darling, with shares more than doubling over the past two years …

Bloomberg HNA Group Co. has been trying for months to offload passenger planes it ordered from Airbus SE, according to people familiar with the matter, as the indebted airline-turned-glo-bal acquirer wrestles with liquidity challenges. The Chinese group asked the leasing arms of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Minsheng Banking Corp., amo-ng others, to take over at …