Bloomberg Half of Britons say that the UK’s departure from the European Union has pushed up their expectations for price growth, a Bank of England (BOE) survey showed. Inflation expectations for the coming year stood at 3.3 percent in August, the BOE said, the highest since 2013 and up from 3.1 percent in May. Consumers are slightly more optimistic about ...

Bloomberg A prolonged shadow-banking crisis and hurdles in bankruptcy rules are set to keep India atop the world’s worst bad-debt pile, even as Italy, which held the title previously, quickens the clean-up of its lenders. Moody’s Investors Service to Credit Suisse Group AG warned that more loans may sour in the Asian nation’s banking system. More than 2.4 percent of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Foundation will distribute humanitarian relief and food assistance to around 30,000 Sudanese families affected by torrential rains and flash floods that swept Sudan in early August, a foundation source has announced. The source said a field relief team of the foundation had held a series of meetings with Dr. Mohmmed Fadhlallah, Deputy ...