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Moneylife Digital Team 05 August 2024
Bangladesh prime minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has resigned and left the country amid massive protests against her government that has killed more than 106 people since Sunday. Bangladeshi media reported that the PM left for a 'safer place' after hundreds of protestors stormed Gonobhaban—the...

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The financial regulator on Monday unveiled a set of plans that advise banks and brokerages to compensate losses from derivative products tracking Chinese stocks listed on the Hong Kong exchange.   The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said its preliminary inspection, conducted for...

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IANS 28 February 2024
Embattled Chinese developer Country Garden is facing a winding-up petition in Hong Kong, months after the company started what is expected to be the second-largest restructuring effort among its peers, following that of China Evergrande Group, a media report said.   Country Garden...

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IANS 14 February 2024
Inflation in the US, which cooled in January, rose again exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, signalling that the Federal Reserve might hold back its reported move to cut interest rates.   The Fed halted the rate hike after a 52-week long fight to rein in the price pressures on the...

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IANS 12 February 2024
India on Monday successfully launched its Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius.   RuPay card services were also launched in Mauritius as part of this initiative.   Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the inaugural event virtually alongside his...

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IANS 08 February 2024
America’s publicly traded companies are flashing a key sign of economic uncertainty -- they’ve been hoarding cash, a media report said.   Americans have spent down their pandemic-era savings and then some. Credit card and auto loan delinquencies have not only surpassed pre-pandemic...

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IANS 07 February 2024
US banks hold about $2.7 trillion in commercial real-estate loans.   The majority of that, about 80 per cent, according to Goldman Sachs economists, is held by smaller, regional banks -- the ones that the US government hasn’t classified as “too big to fail”, CNN...

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IANS 06 February 2024
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun a course of treatment, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday   "During The King's recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted. Subsequent diagnostic tests have...

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IANS 30 November 2023
Forbes has published its '30 Under 30' list of young entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in the world for the past 13 years, and an "astonishing number" of these people went on to become cultural tastemakers, tech titans, and even billionaires.   However, some...

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IANS 13 November 2023
Ports in several Australian cities have been shut down due to a massive cyber attack, triggering concerns about shortages of key supplies amid the festive season for several days ahead.   A “serious and ongoing” cybersecurity incident hit port operator DP World Australia, which...

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Robert Faturechi  and   Ellis Simani (ProPublica) 13 November 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   It was the kind of endorsement most companies dream of. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, the legendary investor known as the Oracle of Omaha, repeatedly sang the praises of Wells Fargo in an interview with Fortune. The bank,...

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Stock markets are ruled by “sentiment” which drives money in and out of the markets. Bullish sentiment is described as a risk-on period while the bearish sentiment is called risk-off. The US market and economy have a profound influence on emerging markets and it is worth paying attention to...

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IANS 23 October 2023
American oil giant Chevron Corporation announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hess Corporation to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hess in an all-stock transaction valued at $53 billion.   Under the terms of the agreement, Hess shareholders...

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IANS 19 October 2023
A US Congressional panel has announced a bipartisan scrutiny into top investment firm Sequoia Capital’s investments in China.   The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by Mike Gallagher (R-WI) which also has Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi as a...

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Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein  and   Ilya Marritz (ProPublica) 12 October 2023
The party guests who arrived on the evening of 23 June 2022, at the Tudor-style mansion on the coast of Maine were a special group in a special place enjoying a special time. The attendees included some two dozen federal and state judges — a gathering that required U.S. marshals with...

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IANS 09 October 2023
Senior economists are in a wait & watch mode as to the impact of Israel - Hamas war on the Indian economy while agreeing there may be a crude oil supply challenge if the war spreads across West Asia.   They said it is a bit early to comment on the impact as the situation has to be...

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Cezary Podkul (ProPublica) 06 October 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   A growing number of casinos in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar are engaging in large-scale money laundering, facilitating cyberfraud that is costing victims in America and abroad billions of dollars, according to new research by the...

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Heather Vogell (ProPublica) 03 October 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   After months in which indictments in four successive criminal cases against Donald Trump raised the stunning, if distant, prospect that a former U.S. president could be put behind bars, it was the seemingly less momentous civil case...

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IANS 21 September 2023
India on Thursday said that Canada has not given any specific information about its allegations of New Delhi's hand in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and they appear to be "politically driven".   Addressing the media, Ministry of External Affairs...

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IANS 21 September 2023
India has suspended visa services for Canadians "till further notice" amid a massive international row over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's claim that his government has intelligence linking New Delhi in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.   A notice by...

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