Bloomberg Sovereign bonds in India rallied after the central bank said it will purchase debt to meet the cash needs of the banking system. The Reserve Bank of India said it would buy 100 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) of securities with maturities ranging from 2020 to 2033 maturities on May 17. The purchases comes after the shortest bond on sale ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank warned that a rise in trade protectionism would undermine the global economy, and said the US would be among the worst-affected. The cautionary comments coincide with data showing factory orders in Germany unexpectedly slid for a third month in March, another sign of the weakness that’s dogged the euro-area economy since the start of the ...

Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) shares fell the most in a month after the Singaporean bank posted first-quarter profit growth that relied largely on a drop in loan provisions as lending margins stagnated. Southeast Asia’s second-largest bank slid as much as 3.2 percent in Singapore on Monday morning after Chief Executive Officer Samuel Tsien signaled that last quarter’s decline in ...