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India cenbank to start pilot of digital rupee on Nov 1
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will launch the pilot for a central-bank-backed digital rupee for the wholesale segment on Nov. 1, it said on Monday, identifying nine banks, incl...
Oct 31, 2022
Jazeera Airways plans to get around $2 billion from banks for Airbus deal
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Jazeera Airways is planning to get around $2 billion from commercial banks to fund 70% of a deal it has with Airbus for 28 A320neo airliners, the Kuwaiti carrier's chairman told Reu...
Oct 31, 2022
Israel, Bahrain hope to seal free trade deal by end of year
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and Bahrain hope to seal a free trade agreement before the end of the year, officials from both countries said on Monday. Israel normalised diplomatic relations with Bahra...
Oct 31, 2022
India’s April-Sept fiscal deficit touches $74.91 billion, tax receipts rise
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's federal fiscal deficit in the first half of the financial year through September rose to 6.20 trillion rupees ($74.91 billion) from 5.27 trillion a year earlier, though r...
Oct 31, 2022
U.S. throws out Libor-rigging charges against Hayes
LONDON (Reuters) - A New York judge has dismissed criminal charges against Tom Hayes, the British trader who became the face of the global Libor interest rate scandal. The former UBS and Citigroup tra...
Oct 31, 2022
Bond investors like short maturities, on guard even as smaller Fed hikes loom
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many bond investors are playing it safe on the short end of the yield curve, even as Federal Reserve officials have started to float the idea of smalle...
Oct 31, 2022
Swedish economy heading for ‘tough winter’, new finance minister says
By Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The Swedish economy is heading into a recession next year, driven by rampant inflation and the war in Ukraine, the country's new finance minis...
Oct 31, 2022
Thermo Fisher to buy diagnostics firm Binding Site for $2.6 billion
(Reuters) -Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc said on Monday it would buy specialty diagnostics firm the Binding Site Group from a group led by European private equity firm Nordic Capital in an all-cash tra...
Oct 31, 2022
GasBuddy: Peoria’s gas prices are down a bit
PEORIA, Ill. — Gas prices in the Peoria area have fallen over 4 cents a gallon in the past week, averaging $4.21 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Peoria gas prices are nearly 17 cents higher th...
Oct 31, 2022
Global jobs growth will ‘deteriorate significantly’ this quarter – ILO
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Global employment growth will "deteriorate significantly" this quarter, hit by the economic turmoil caused by the Ukraine war and by the impact of tighter monetary pol...
Oct 31, 2022
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