BLOOMBERG Kenya’s crippling dollar shortage is driving away investors, turning a once-booming stock market into the worst in the world. Nairobi’s All-Share Index has plunged 19% this year, the steepest drop among the almost 100 global indexes tracked by Bloomberg. The nation is in the grip of a foreign-exchange crunch, with major companies and investment firms facing weeks of delay …

BLOOMBERG Wall Street got some encouragement to keep pushing stocks higher after a slowdown in inflation bolstered speculation the Federal Reserve will pause its tightening campaign on Wednesday. That’s not to say investors are betting the Fed is done with its interest-rate hikes just yet. While swap traders lowered their wagers on a June increase to about 10%, they still …

NEW DELHI / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, has held a bilateral meeting with Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi, India, to celebrate the first year of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (Cepa) between the two nations and review the newly released trade data. Initial figures from …