Bloomberg India’s factory output expanded at the slowest pace in five months, underlining the need for Asia’s third-largest economy to boost investments and consumer spending for faster growth. Growth in output from factories was 4.4 percent in March from a year earlier, the statistics ministry said in a statement in New Delhi. The median of 35 estimates in a Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg Mazda Motor Corp. named Akira Marumoto its next chief executive officer to lead a revival in earnings growth in the face of a slowing US market. Marumoto, an executive vice president who heads operations in the US, will replace Masamichi Kogai after the change is ratified at an annual shareholder meeting on June 26, Mazda said. Kogai will become ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s plan to lower US drug prices avoids some of the harshest steps that the pharmaceutical industry and the network of companies that distribute its products feared. Calling his proposal the most sweeping attempt in US history to lower drug prices, Trump wants to increase competition for medicines, cut list prices and reduce patients’ out-of-pocket costs. Yet ...