Bloomberg Axis Bank Ltd posted an unexpected quarterly loss due to a one-time income tax adjustment. It reported a loss of 1.12 billion rupees ($16 million) in the three months ended on September 30, down from a profit of 7.9 billion rupees a year earlier and compared with a 9.05 billion rupees average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The …

Bloomberg Smartphones have made taking a photo and checking fantasy football scores a breeze, but inputting credit card details on that small screen can still be frustrating enough that many shoppers just give up, costing retailers billions. Now, the world’s biggest card networks — a group that includes Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Financial Services — have joined forces …

Bloomberg Hostility and discrimination await women daring to encroach upon the male-dominated world of economics and central banking, according to papers presented at a European Central Bank conference. The research shows that the much-celebrated rise of Christine Lagarde — a lawyer and politician, not an economist or central banker — to become the ECB’s first-ever female president is atypical for …