Bloomberg Consumer confidence in India dropped in May, as people fretted about jobs and slowing growth in Asia’s third-largest economy. The current situation index fell to 97.3 from 104.6 in March, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s consumer confidence survey, where 100 is the dividing line between pessimism and optimism. The future expectations gauge fell to 128.4 in May ...

Bloomberg South Korea said its economic growth faces prolonged downside risks as uncertainty surrounding external conditions grow more than expected. Yoon Jong-won, the presidential secretary for economic affairs, said the downward period is becoming more prolonged, reversing comments he made in May that growth was expected to improve “significantly” in the second quarter. Yoon said the uncertainties worsened more than ...

Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of those involved in a dialysis treatment scam that defrauded Philippine Health Insurance Corp, and plans a revamp of the state-run insurer for losing more than $2.89 billion from fictitious claims and abuse. “I will really go after this” and “I am ordering the National Bureau of Investigation” to take over, invite ...