While ATMs in India are still waiting to get refilled, analysts’ spreadsheets are finally getting populated. The high-frequency statistics they need to weigh the impact of the country’s bizarre currency ban are slowly trickling in. By the looks of things, some earnings forecasts may escape with just a trim; others may need the slash-and-burn treatment. Sample two pieces of …

  James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, has called Russia the “most dangerous” short-term threat to US interests and raised the question of whether President Vladimir Putin is “delusional.” Trump, meanwhile, has praised Putin’s savvy and talked of repairing US-Russia relations. This isn’t the only issue on which Mattis is at odds with his prospective boss, and …

  Donald Trump did it again. He called John Lewis, civil rights icon and Democratic congressman ‘all talk and no action.’ The Republican billionaire response came a day after John Lewis described Trump as an illegitimate president. Lewis, like many other Democratic lawmakers, vowed to give Trump’s swearing-in a miss. Trump blasted Lewis saying that he should instead clean his …