Bloomberg Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva saw his lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro grow to 17 percentage points in a possible second round, the widest in five months, according to a new poll carried out after the latest fuel price increase in Brazil. Lula would receive 52% of the votes while Bolsonaro would get 35% in a ...

  Bloomberg A supply glut is set to hit India’s government bond market, and drive benchmark yields towards 8% by year-end, according to Standard Chartered Plc. The lender estimates that excess supply of sovereign and state debt may total as much as 6.3 trillion rupees ($81 billion) this fiscal year. That’s likely to further upset a market that’s struggling to ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank held its benchmark interest rate at a record low again, saying inflation remains manageable as it cemented its place as an outlier on monetary policy. Bank Indonesia left the seven-day reverse repurchase rate unchanged at 3.5%, as predicted by 24 of 33 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The rest expected policy makers to kick off the ...