Bloomberg China’s home prices are warming up in the nation’s smaller cities, even as the government prolongs a campaign to rein in speculation and control bubbles. New-home price gains are picking up the most in the third-tier cities, rising 0.46 percent in November on a month-on-month basis, according to Bloomberg Intelligence calculations based on government data tracking 70 cities. The …

Bloomberg Coffee trading is slowing in Vietnam, the top robusta producer, on expectations that a larger harvest and changes to the London futures contract next year will give buyers bigger discounts. Roasters and traders are delaying purchases on bets that a bigger crop currently being gathered will push prices lower, according to traders attending the Asia International Coffee Conference in …

Bloomberg Global A&T Electronics, a Singapore-based chip assembler that took on hefty debt a decade ago through a buyout by TPG Capital and Affinity Equity Partners, filed for bankruptcy as a 2013 debt exchange came back to haunt it. The chip-assembler listed debt of more than $1 billion and assets of over $500 million in Chapter 11 papers filed in …