Bloomberg Hong Kong International Airport’s September passenger traffic volume increased by 133% from a year earlier, after authorities scrapped some of the city’s harshest travel restrictions, including requirements for hotel quarantine and a pre-boarding Covid test. Passenger throughput climbed to 525,000, 10% higher than in August. The growth was boosted by visitors to and from Southeast Asia, the Airport …

  Bloomberg Giving out treats this Halloween will be a lot more expensive than usual. The cost of candy and chewing gum jumped 13.1% in September from last year, the most ever, according to US inflation data. This comes just before what’s arguably candy’s most important holiday — Halloween. The culprit is expensive sugar. US refined sugar prices have soared …

  Bloomberg The Indian currency will withstand the recent strengthening of the dollar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, reiterating a central bank forecast that the South Asian economy will grow at 7% in the year to March, 2023. “The Indian rupee has performed much better than many other emerging market currencies,” Sitharaman said at a media briefing in Washington DC. …