Bloomberg India’s oil demand grew for a fourth month in March, although the pace of gains slowed from February as falling vehicle sales weighed on transportation fuel consumption even amid campaigning for federal elections. Total usage of oil products rose 1.3% y/y to 18.9m tonnes in March, according to the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell Demand in the ...

Bloomberg The last stronghold in embattled businessman Anil Ambani’s phone carrier-to-power empire is also developing fault lines. Reliance Capital Ltd, his financial services business that almost doubled its profit in five years, had largely remained insulated from the distress plaguing the wider conglomerate. Now, the company that controls India’s fifth-biggest mutual fund, is racing to close a planned $2 billion ...

Bloomberg US prosecutors and representatives of fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho want to sell a $39 million mansion in Los Angeles he bought in 2012 with money allegedly stolen from the state-owned 1MDB investment fund. The empty mansion above the trendy Sunset Strip is falling into further disrepair by the day and is costing $690,000 a year in taxes, ...