Goyal India’s rupee rose the most in almost two weeks amid optimism a rally that propelled local stocks to a bull market will lure more foreign inflows. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index of shares surged 1.8 percent to its highest close since August, tracking gains across emerging markets after a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report improved confidence in the ...

  AFP Mark Carney’s third week managing Britain’s response to the economic shock of Brexit is about to begin. With UK politics in disarray after the nation opted to split from the European Union, the Bank of England governor has been leading the charge in offering stability. After boosting liquidity, freeing banks to lend more and signaling a willingness to ...

  Bloomberg Forget Brexit, go for raw materials. Citigroup Inc says that it’s bullish on the outlook for commodities in 2017 as the impact of the UK’s vote to quit the European Union will fade, global growth chugs along and investors will plow more cash into funds. “Citi is especially bullish commodities for 2017,” analysts led by Ed Morse wrote ...

  Bloomberg Kazakhstan’s central bank is prepared to return to the currency market in force to mop up excess dollars after a month of doing “practically zero” as higher returns draw savers to tenge deposits, Governor Daniyar Akishev said. “If there are significant inflows of foreign currency, we are ready to buy as before,” Akishev said in an interview on ...

  Bloomberg Borrowing costs in Shanghai fell to the lowest level since May as funds returned to the banking system following increased demand for quarter-end regulatory needs. The decline comes even amid signs that the central bank is against maintaining excessive liquidity as it looks to limit volatility in money-market rates. Data released over the weekend showed factory-gate deflation eased ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is pushing ahead with plans to become one of the world’s top five wealth managers as the business outlook for European banks worsens because of the Brexit vote and Italy’s banking crisis. Market volatility after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union underscores the need for Germany’s largest bank to bolster its presence outside ...

  Reuters Sovereign investors, including wealth funds, made $14.1 billion worth of acquisitions in the second quarter, down 26 percent from the first three months of the year but underpinned by a rebound in real estate deals. Data compiled by Thomson Reuters shows sovereign investors, a category that can include everything from state pension funds to oil-backed investment vehicles, were ...

  Bloomberg China’s property prices and real estate investment are poised for slower growth even as home sales may rise to a record this year, according to a top government think tank. Real estate is due for a “short-term adjustment period” after heating up since 2015, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in a report Wednesday. Price increases and ...

  Bloomberg As institutional investors scour the globe in search of safe havens from the post-Brexit turmoil, property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. has a piece of advice: Go East. Topping the list of attractive investments is Japan, where some residential real estate projects deliver effective yields as high as 7 percent, taking into account the nation’s negative interest rates, ...

  Bloomberg Ventas Inc. agreed to acquire a group of medical and life-science properties from Blackstone Group LP for $1.5 billion, marking a foray into owning real estate affiliated with universities. The real estate investment trust plans to buy substantially all of the life-science and medical properties of Wexford Science & Technology LLC, according to a statement on Monday. Wexford ...