
Overseas investors bought a net 4.51 billion rupees ($91.8 million) of Indian equities yesterday, raising their investment in the equities this year to 184.5bn rupees, according to the nation’s mark

India, which uses coal to fire more than half of its power plants, imported 114.35 million metric tonnes of the fuel in 2011, according to shipping data.

Hindalco Industries Ltd, India’s second-largest aluminum maker, reported a better-than-expected profit for the third time in four quarters as an increase in copper treatment and refining fees offset

Indonesia’s bonds advanced for an 11th day and the rupiah dropped, reversing earlier gains, as Bank Indonesia unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in three months today.

South Korea said on Thursday that Europe should take decisive steps to resolve its debt problems before the Group of 20 leading economies approve a move to boost resources of the IMF to help countries

Malaysia’s industrial production growth accelerated in December as manufacturing and electricity output increased as exports climbed.

Credit Suisse Group AG, the second- biggest Swiss bank, said it had a loss in the fourth quarter for the first time since 2008, hurt by “adverse markets” and costs to reorganise the investment ban

Indonesia's central bank unexpectedly cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent on Thursday ,after keeping it steady the past two months, in a bid to ensure that Southeast Asia's largest

ING has decided to split the sale of its Asian insurance business by auctioning its investment management business separately, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Reliance Industries Ltd, owner of the world’s largest refining complex, is marketing a 10-year bond denominated in US dollars, according to a person familiar with the matter.