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Mideast stocks rise as traders return to work

Bloomberg Middle East stocks generally advanced on Sunday, catching up with emerging-market peers, as traders returned to work following holidays. Gauges in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt climbed following last week’s increase for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Stock exchanges in the Arab world were closed for most of last week due to Eid al-Fitr, the holiday ...

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‘Yuan breaching 7 per dollar within 3 months’

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc expects the yuan to weaken past 7 per dollar in the next three months — a level the currency hasn’t breached in more than a decade. The bank revised its forecasts for the yuan against the dollar because it sees the currency’s decline as a natural offset to higher US tariffs, even if policymakers are ...

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India eases bad-debt resolution rules

Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) eased rules to give lenders laden with bad debt more time to resolve delinquent accounts and lifted a deadline for pushing defaulters into bankruptcy courts. The directive, which also covers shadow banks, gives lenders 30 days to review a delinquent account and a further 180 days to implement a resolution plan, loosening the ...

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