Bloomberg China weakened its currency fixing by the most since last August as global market turmoil spurred by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent the dollar surging. The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate 0.9 percent weaker at 6.6375 a dollar. A gauge of the greenback’s strength jumped 2.4 percent in the past two days, ...

  Bloomberg India’s economy will be among the least impacted in Asia by the UK’s vote to exit the European Union given its relatively low exposure to trade, according to Morgan Stanley. “Increased uncertainty in the external environment due to UK’s vote should add to downward pressures on growth and inflation in the region,” Morgan Stanley economists including Chetan Ahya ...

  Al-Qaa / AFP A string of suicide bombings early on Monday killed at least five people in a Lebanese village near the volatile border with war-ravaged Syria. The attack came just hours after the IS group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb that killed seven soldiers on Jordan’s border with Syria. Monday’s deadly blasts struck Al-Qaa, a predominantly ...