Bloomberg Hong Kong’s financial markets showed resilience after a day of violent clashes between protesters and the police brought much of the city’s centre to a standstill. The benchmark Hang Seng Index was little changed on Wednesday, closing down 0.2 percent on volume that was 30 percent lower than the 30-day average. Trading in the local dollar was also muted, ...

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co agreed to move most of its assets in India into a joint venture with a local partner after struggling for more than two decades to win over buyers in the world’s fourth-largest auto market. The deal effectively ends Ford’s independent operations in a country it wanted to become one of its top three markets by 2020. ...

Bloomberg Thousands of workers plan to carry out protests against Indonesia’s labour, wage and health insurance regulations, which they say are discriminatory, raising fresh risks for the stability of Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Around 50,000 workers will join the protest in front of the parliament building in Jakarta, according to Said Iqbal, president of the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions ...