Bloomberg Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. is among shortlisted bidders for a portfolio of Novartis AG assets, including its US dermatology business, that could fetch as much as $2 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. Apollo Global Management LLC, CVC Capital Partners and Indian drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. have also been picked to make final offers, the people ...

Bloomberg It’s hard to predict whether India will re-elect a majority government next year. But one fund manager has advice for investors: go against the crowd. If stocks start to rise on expectations of a stable administration, investors must book profit and re-enter should the results confirm the outcome, said Nilesh Shah, who oversees $19 billion as chief executive officer ...

Bloomberg India’s factory output expanded at the slowest pace in five months, underlining the need for Asia’s third-largest economy to boost investments and consumer spending for faster growth. Growth in output from factories was 4.4 percent in March from a year earlier, the statistics ministry said in a statement in New Delhi. The median of 35 estimates in a Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg Mazda Motor Corp. named Akira Marumoto its next chief executive officer to lead a revival in earnings growth in the face of a slowing US market. Marumoto, an executive vice president who heads operations in the US, will replace Masamichi Kogai after the change is ratified at an annual shareholder meeting on June 26, Mazda said. Kogai will become ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s plan to lower US drug prices avoids some of the harshest steps that the pharmaceutical industry and the network of companies that distribute its products feared. Calling his proposal the most sweeping attempt in US history to lower drug prices, Trump wants to increase competition for medicines, cut list prices and reduce patients’ out-of-pocket costs. Yet ...

Bloomberg US consumer prices rose by less than forecast in April as costs for automobiles and airfares declined, reducing chances that inflation will run significantly above the Federal Reserve’s target in coming months. The consumer-price index advanced 0.2 percent from the prior month after a March decline of 0.1 percent, a Labor Department report showed, compared with the Bloomberg survey ...

Bloomberg Investors gave a resounding thumbs-down to the partial spinoff of Axa SA’s US business, dealing a blow to boss Thomas Buberl’s strategy for the French insurer. The sale of part of its US operations raised almost $1 billion less than the company had hoped for, and comes amid concern among shareholders at the $15.3 billion takeover of XL Group ...

Bloomberg A gauge of UK house prices dipped to its lowest in more than five years last month, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with the slowdown most acute in London and the southeast. RICS’s gauge of prices dropped to minus 8, the lowest since November 2012, the organization said in a report. The descent into negative territory ...

Bloomberg 21st Century Fox Inc., Rupert Murdoch’s film and TV company, reported weaker earnings in its latest quarter, even as a looming deal to offload most of its entertainment assets took the focus off the results. Excluding some items, profit amounted to 51 cents a share last quarter, New York-based Fox said. That missed the average of analysts’ estimates of ...

Bloomberg Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak resigned on Saturday as head of his party and was slapped with a travel ban as he faces the prospect his successor reopens a probe into a multi-billion dollar scandal at a state fund. Najib announced he would step down as president of the United Malays National Organisation, and as chairman of the ...