China's largest property developer Country Garden on Friday further delayed the release of its 2023 financial results, as it needed more time amid an ongoing debt restructuring, Reuters reported. The firm had previously delayed the results in March, saying it needed more time to collect information for making appropriate accounting estimates and judgements. "The Group will finalize and publish the 2023 annual results and despatch the 2023 annual report as soon as practicable," the debt-laden property developer said in an exchange filing.
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India’s economy grew at a slower pace last quarter than expected, with risks to the outlook mounting and pressure building on the central bank to cut interest rates, Bloomberg News reported. Gross domestic product rose 6.7% in the three months to June from a year earlier, the Statistics Ministry said Friday — the slowest pace in five quarters and below the central bank’s projection of 7.1% for the period. Growth weakened from 7.8% in the January-March quarter.
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Some Russian companies are facing growing delays and rising costs on payments with trading partners in China, leaving transactions worth tens of billions of yuan in limbo, Russian sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters. Russian companies and officials for a few months have pointed to delays in transactions after Chinese banks tightened compliance following Western threats of secondary sanctions for dealing with Russia. The sources said the problem has intensified this month.
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