BEIJING / Reuters Russia has kept its top spot as oil supplier to China, beating Saudi Arabia for the second month in row, as independent refiners scooped up more volumes before their first batch of quotas expire. Saudi Arabia and Russia, both vying for more market share in China, have said they support an oil cut extension until March 2018 ...

Bloomberg India’s biggest tax reform in history is also set to make its small-to-medium businesses more transparent. On July 1, as India rolls out its landmark national sales tax, businesses that make less than 100 million rupees — which the government refers to as micro, small and medium enterprises — will all have to digitize. The firms, often accused of ...

Bloomberg Japan’s wages may still be falling by some measures, but some analysts are so convinced that the country’s labor shortages are going to impose a cost shake-out for companies and markets that they’ve started making investment recommendations. “The labor shortage is becoming more acute,” with unemployment at just 2.8 percent, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts including strategist Shusuke ...