Reuters Middle East fund managers have grown more cautious about building positions in both equities and fixed income, partly because of the risk of a U.S. interest rate hike as soon as June, a monthly Reuters poll showed. The poll of 14 leading fund managers, conducted over the last 10 days, shows 21 percent anticipate reducing allocations to Middle ...

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India may spend as much as $16 billion — over $1 billion more than initially estimated — on the nation’s first bullet train to elevate the entire railroad, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Land acquisition hurdles, as well as people and animals potentially wandering in front of carriages speeding at 350 ...

  Tokyo / AFP Japan’s industrial production edged up in April, data showed on Tuesday, despite factory shutdowns sparked by a pair of deadly earthquakes that rocked southern Kyushu. Official figures also showed household spending remained tepid, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mulls whether to delay a sales tax hike over fears it could damage the fragile economy. Inflation data ...