Bloomberg China’s proposal to halt some metals production to fight air pollution over the winter would create shortages of alumina but have a more limited impact on aluminum supply, according to China’s top industry body, which has been consulted on the plan. The proposal involves an alumina suspension in three provinces that would affect about a fifth of the …

  Bloomberg Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. reported third-quarter profit climbed 47 percent as India’s biggest automaker increased its share of sales of sport utility vehicles, a more affluent market segment that better weathered the cash crunch affecting predominantly the country’s poor. Net income climbed to 17.4 billion rupees ($255 million) in the quarter ended Dec. 31, in line with analysts’ …

  Bloomberg Donald Trump’s push against trade deals he says have devastated small-town US workers is bringing disappointment to another key piece of his rural American coalition: Farmers and ranchers who heartily supported the president in hopes of less regulation and lower taxes. Trump’s decision on Monday to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have reduced tariffs and …