Bloomberg China’s Shandong Ruyi Group is paying more than $2 billion to buy the owner of Lycra, the form-fitting elastic material used in everything from jeans to yoga pants, people with knowledge of the matter said. The purchase from Koch Industries Inc. is part of the Chinese apparel producer’s goal to acquire leading global textile brands, one of the people ...

Bloomberg Gold imports by India, the world’s biggest consumer after China, dropped 31 percent in October from a year earlier, according to a person familiar with matter. Inbound shipments fell to 66.8 metric tons in October, from 96.7 tons, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the data aren’t public. The figure would leave imports for the ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. raised its annual profit forecast for a second time this year, helped by a weaker yen and US sales that outpaced Ford Motor Co. In the three months to September, Toyota took a 15 percent share in the US—its biggest market—for the first time since 2009. Toyota outsold Ford every month in the quarter, with the ...