Bloomberg Hong Kong suffered a day of tempestuous weather, grim economic news and signs that the city’s political crisis is deepening. Gross domestic product contracted 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, while growth on a year-ago basis remained at 0.6 percent, according to data. Both results were well below the estimates of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Hong Kong’s trade-dependent economy ...

Bloomberg VG Siddhartha, the founder of India’s biggest coffee chain, has been confirmed dead days after he purportedly wrote a letter indicating he was anxious about pressure from banks, investors and the tax authorities. Siddhartha told his driver he was going for a walk, near a bridge close to the southern Indian city of Mangaluru. He was reported missing after ...

For much of the past two and a half years, the UK has had the luxury of negotiating the terms of its departure from the European Union under little pressure from the financial markets. The new prime minister Boris Johnson could soon come to pine for those calmer days. Sterling fell by more than 1.3 percent to $1.22, hitting its ...