Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank has signaled a return to the easing bias that dominated its rates agenda last year. Bank Indonesia was Asia’s biggest rate cutter in 2016, easing policy six times until it hit the pause button late in the year. Now, with price pressures fading again, the bank’s governor Agus Martowardojo has said policymakers aren’t closing the door …

Bloomberg It took six meetings for cracks to become visible within India’s powerful interest rate-setting panel. Following a series of consensus voting and bland statements, there was open dissent on the monetary policy committee in June, which only worsened last week when a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s economic research wing broke ranks for the first time with …

Dubai / Emirates Business Emaar Malls, the shopping malls and retail business majority-owned by Emaar Properties, recorded a net profit of AED 1.021 billion ($278 million) in the first-half (January to June) of 2017. This is 3 percent higher than the H1 2016 net profit of AED 987 million ($269 million). Revenue for half- year 2017 is AED 1.624 billion …