Bloomberg US stock-index futures retreated with Asian shares while equities sank across Europe as miserable manufacturing data from the world’s largest economy kept reverberating around markets. The dollar advanced. Contracts on the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Industrial Average all signalled declines when exchanges open in New York, after the underlying indexes slumped the previous day when a ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s financial markets showed resilience after a day of violent clashes between protesters and the police brought much of the city’s centre to a standstill. The benchmark Hang Seng Index was little changed on Wednesday, closing down 0.2 percent on volume that was 30 percent lower than the 30-day average. Trading in the local dollar was also muted, ...

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co agreed to move most of its assets in India into a joint venture with a local partner after struggling for more than two decades to win over buyers in the world’s fourth-largest auto market. The deal effectively ends Ford’s independent operations in a country it wanted to become one of its top three markets by 2020. ...