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Thursday, October 3, 2024
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

India among Asian destinations for investors fleeing Chinese real estate debt crisis

Both Goldman Sachs & CreditSights consider Indian companies attractive. While the first recommends high-yield renewables, the latter considers financial firms to well shielded here.

China warns foreign envoys attending Beijing Olympics opening of 21 days of possible quarantine

If positive cases are found in an audience area, the close contacts will go through a 21-day centralised medical observation, according to a notice sent to diplomatic missions.

US keeps 8,500 troops on alert to back NATO forces, as Russia camps near Ukraine borders

Although the troops aren’t being sent to Ukraine, the US said it was 'very clear the Russians have no intention right now of de-escalating' and it would be prudent to prepare.

Why Federal Reserve will no longer have pandemic-era investors’ backs

Inflation is top of mind for all leaders in Washington and US President Joe Biden, whose approval ratings are sliding, appears less inclined to count on hope as a strategy.

More men than women are leaving US labour force & results are terrible for families, economy

One probable theory is technology and globalisation destroyed routine jobs which employed men. Another is that better leisure options, like video games, reduced the desire to work

SEBI seeks tighter environmental, social & governance rules to address risk of greenwashing

In a consultation paper released Monday, SEBI said increasing reliance on unregulated ESG rating providers poses risks to investor protection, transparency & efficiency of markets.

Amazon, Netflix sign Rs 400-crore deal with Mumbai production house to boost Indian content

Production house Clean Slate Filmz, co-founded by actor Anushka Sharma's brother Karnesh Ssharma, will release 8 films & series on these OTT platforms among others in the next 18 months.

India’s addiction to cooking oil imports seen lasting for at least 15 more years

India will likely produce about 10 million tonnes of edible oils in 2021-22, compared with local consumption of as much as 23 million tonnes.

Vladimir Putin threatens to burst Xi Jinping’s Olympic dream with a war in Ukraine

Last December, Xi had called Putin an 'old friend'. Kicking off an invasion of Ukraine in the middle of Beijing's Winter Olympics could throw a wrench into such warmth.

China’s ‘little giants’ are its latest weapon in the tech war to take on Silicon Valley

President Xi Jinping has given his personal blessing to the little giants label, which is key to Communist Party’s ambitious strategy to reposition the country’s technology industry.

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Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?