The best performing companies will be ones with more sales and production outside of Japan. As Indians line up to vote, most observers expect a victory for the supposedly pro-business Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Narendra Modi.

Mr Diamond and partners have created a new fund to invest in Africa, Atlas Mara. It raised $325 mn from investors and just announced its first deal, to buy Botswana's BancABC, with a third of its business in Zimbabwe.

A bear in a China shop has emerged, John-Paul Smith, senior stock analyst with Deutsche Bank. In a recent report, Smith said the same preludes to a stock market collapse which hit Russia in 1998 can be detected in Chinese markets today. Plus other global updates.

The latest financial news from Israel, Mongolia, India, Finland, Canada, The Netherlands, Singapore, Britain, Brazil, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia:

Today's financial global news updates covers the latest from Israel, India, Finland, Thailand, Mexico, Spain, China, Britain, Singapore, and Hong Kong.