Bloomberg In his air-conditioned office protected from the scorching heat and dust outside, S.M. Imran points at a white lined map pinned on his wall showing Power Cement Ltd.’s planned expansion at its plant in Pakistan’s arid southern Sindh province. Power Cement is aiming to triple capacity, riding a wave of Chinese-financed infrastructure projects across Pakistan valued at more than …

Bloomberg One MobiKwik Systems Pvt., one of India’s largest digital-payment providers, is pushing back its target for profitability by a year as it invests more in its business to capitalize on the government’s shock ban on high-value rupee notes. The demonetization drive announced late last year created a digital-payments market at least 30 times bigger than what the company had …

Bloomberg Canada’s trade deficit was wider than forecast in April, and there was further disappointment in revised figures showing larger gaps in the prior two months. Imports exceeded exports by C$370 million ($274 million) in April, Statistics Canada said in Ottawa. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists was for shortfall of C$20 million. In addition to the …