Bloomberg The rupee’s surge and a banking system awash with funds will shift focus to a little-used tool in the Indian central bank’s arsenal before next month’s policy review. The Reserve Bank of India may consider raising the cash reserve ratio for the first time since 2010 if deposits accumulated due to November’s cash ban don’t flee over the ...

  Reuters Stock markets in the Middle East were mixed on Monday with petrochemicals and the insurance sector weighing on Saudi Arabia while Qatar rose as it completed its upgrade by index compiler FTSE Russell to secondary emerging market status. The Saudi index fell 0.5 percent with the main drag coming from the petrochemical sector as Brent oil futures fell ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election-win magic looks to be casting a spell on the Indian stock market. The S&P BSE Sensex index will climb to 32,000 by the end of December, up more than 8 percent from its close of 29,518.74 on Monday, according to a median estimate of eight traders and investors surveyed by Bloomberg News on ...