Bloomberg Guess which city managed to top a luxury real-estate ranking despite a slew of cooling measures to tame its property market? Yes, the tiny island nation of Singapore, nudging out Hong Kong. Luxury home prices rose 13 percent in the quarter ended September 30 from a year earlier, according to Knight Frank LLP’s Prime Global Cities Index. Gains were ...

Bloomberg Borrowing conditions for Indian companies will likely remain tough for months as fallout from defaults at Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. continue to weigh on the nation’s debt market, according to S&P Global Ratings. “India’s financial markets are facing a trust deficit,” S&P credit analyst Geeta Chugh wrote in a note. “The disruption could put a strain on ...

Bloomberg NTT Docomo Inc., Japan’s second-biggest mobile phone carrier by sales, plans to invest 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) on infrastructure over five years for 5G services that allow faster data transmission. The carrier also increased planned investment this year by 10 billion yen for offering “pre-commercial” 5G services at limited locations including airports, stadiums and Docomo premises by September ...