Bloomberg Hong Kong unveiled its first stamp-duty increase on stock trades since 1993, sparking a broad selloff in the $7.6 trillion market and sending shares of the city’s exchange to their biggest plunge in more than five years. The planned trading-tax increase to 0.13% from 0.10% was part of a raft of new measures announced in Hong Kong’s budget that …

Bloomberg The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) shut trading in its cash and derivative segments earlier on Wednesday, citing “issues” with telecom links of its two service providers, which it said impacted the system and stopped prices from updating. “We are working on restoring the systems as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for NSE, the world’s biggest derivatives …

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the cowardly attack that targeted a convoy of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) near Goma, the capital of the North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Italian ambassador to the DRC and two other people were killed during the attack. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs …