Bloomberg India will abolish the country’s largest currency notes in a fight against unaccounted wealth and corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an unscheduled address to the nation. The government will scrap 500 rupee and 1,000 rupee notes from Wednesday. The notes in circulation will have to be deposited in banks by end of December, he said in a …

  Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. raised its full-year profit forecast as the yen’s rally stopped short of levels the automaker predicted, providing some respite from a sales slowdown that’s threatening its position as the world’s top seller. Operating profit will probably be 1.7 trillion yen ($16.3 billion) for the year ending in March 2017, compared with the 1.6 trillion-yen forecast …

  Bloomberg Elevated gold prices and India’s push for more transparency on purchases and income disclosure will cut the nation’s demand for bullion in 2016 to its lowest in seven years, before consumption recovers in 2017, according to the World Gold Council. The WGC trimmed its demand estimate for a second time this year to between 650 and 750 metric …