Chinese auto dealers on Tuesday called on automakers to stop offloading too many cars on dealerships, as intense price wars are pressuring their cash flow, driving down their profitability and forcing some to shut, Reuters reported. The proposal came on the heels of an official call over the weekend for the auto industry to halt bruising price wars. Conditions facing car dealers have become "even more severe" amid a new round of hefty discounting since the second quarter, the China Auto Dealers Chamber of Commerce said in a statement.

Builder.ai, the artificial intelligence startup that recently announced plans to declare bankruptcy, faked business with the Indian social-media startup VerSe Innovation for years to falsely inflate its sales, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and people with direct knowledge of the practice. The two companies routinely billed one another for roughly the same amounts between 2021 and 2024, documents reviewed by Bloomberg show, as part of an alleged practice known as "round-tripping" that the people said Builder.ai used to inflate revenue figures it presented to investors.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) of Think & Learn, the parent company of online education services company Byju's, even as it sought a response from the former’s creditors, Aditya Birla Finance and US lender Glas Trust Co. LLC, and others, the Economic Times of India reported.

Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner was sentenced to two years in prison by a judge in a New York court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in 2018 for his involvement in a multi-billion dollar scandal involving Malaysia's sovereign fund 1MDB, Reuters reported. Leissner's conduct was "brazen and audacious," judge Margo Brodie said during sentencing. While his cooperation with the government was taken into account, it did not make up for the harm caused by the corruption at the highest levels in several countries, the judge said.

India’s economy picked up speed in the most recent quarter as manufacturing and private consumption continued to show resilience, the Wall Street Journal reported. Official data on Friday showed that India’s economy grew 7.4% in January-March, accelerating from 6.2% in the prior quarter and marking its best quarterly growth in a year. That topped the median estimate for 6.8% growth compiled in a Wall Street Journal poll of economists and came after an unexpectedly sharp slowdown in the July-September quarter fanned concerns that the economy was losing steam.

Australian retail sales slipped unexpectedly in April as warm weather hit spending on winter clothing, data showed on Friday, while department stores suffered from a dearth of discounting events in further evidence of a cautious consumer, Reuters reported. The weakness came despite lower borrowing costs and a cooling in inflation, supporting investor wagers for a further cut in interest rates when the Reserve Bank of Australia next meets in July.

The bankruptcy regulator has amended the framework for reporting the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) to ease compliance burden without undermining effective oversight, according to a circular, the Economic Times of India reported. Under the revised reporting framework, the existing nine forms will be compressed into five by removing duplication, streamlining data requirements and leveraging technology for auto-population of information, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) said in the circular dated May 26.

After stepping back this month from an escalating and dangerous war of tariffs, the United States and China are now threatening to undermine their uneasy truce, the New York Times reported. On May 12, the countries announced after weekend meetings in Geneva that they would suspend most of their recently imposed tariffs. Since then, however, both governments have shown that they are still prepared to wield controls over critical exports as weapons against one another, with moves that are potentially even more damaging to trade and global supply chains.

Japan, which has the highest government debt among leading economies, is finding it difficult to spend like it used to, the New York Times reported. Debt-fueled public spending, enabled by low interest rates, has long been a way to address the country’s problems. Struggling farmers and emptying countrysides received generous payments from the central government. Relief aid during the Covid-19 pandemic morphed into new outlays for defense and subsidies to help consumers weather inflation.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed determination Thursday to defend rules-based, free and multilateral trade systems and work on expanding the main Asia-Pacific trade group at a time of tension over U.S. tariffs, the Associated Press reported. “High tariffs will not bring economic prosperity," Ishiba told a global forum in Tokyo. “A prosperity built on sacrifices by someone or another country will not make a strong economy.” Japan seeks to work with the U.S.