Mumbai / AFP The dollar hit a record high against the Indian rupee on Thursday as the US unit rockets against other global currencies on expectations of a rise in US interest rates. Trump’s victory last week lit a fire under the greenback as investors bet his big-spending tax-cutting plans will fan inflation and force the Federal Reserve to ramp …

  New Delhi / AFP India’s former prime minister said Thursday the government’s shock move to withdraw all high-value notes from circulation would slow growth in the world’s fastest expanding major economy, calling it “legalised plunder”. Manmohan Singh, whose economic reforms are credited with rescuing the country from the brink of bankruptcy in the early 1990s, said the two-week-old scheme had …

  Geneva / AFP The head of the World Trade Organization said on Thursday he had received no indication the United States would move to leave the WTO under Donald Trump’s administration. “I haven’t had any indication from anybody that that could be the case,” WTO chief Roberto Azevedo told reporters. During his campaign, in which he repeatedly attacked global …