Bloomberg Singapore will witness a deeper recession this year after the nation extended and tightened its partial lockdown, Citigroup Inc warned, widening its forecast for an economic contraction. The city-state’s economy will contract by 8.5% in 2020, down from an earlier estimate of a 6% fall, economists Wei Zheng Kit and Kai Wei Ang wrote after Singapore extended “circuit breaker” ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc will invest $5.7 billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp as it seeks a broader foothold in its biggest global market. The US company will buy about 10% of Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder, Reliance Industries Ltd said in a ...

Bloomberg South China Morning Post, a newspaper owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is cutting executives’ salaries and asking some workers to take unpaid leave as the coronavirus crisis has hurt revenue. CEO Gary Liu and Editor-in-Chief Tammy Tam are among 27 senior executives who have agreed to pay reductions immediately, the company said on its newspaper ...