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Indian inflation seen picking up in July on higher food prices

Indian inflation is expected to have picked up to a near-two-year high in July as food prices relentlessly rose, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who also predicted factory output improved in June.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Disney invests $1b in Major League Baseball streaming business

Disney said Tuesday that it has invested $1 billion in the BAMTech video streaming service, Major League Baseball's direct-to-consumer broadcast company, as it positions itself in the fast-changing media industry.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Mahindra & Mahindra first quarter profit rises on higher SUV, truck sales

Mahindra & Mahindra on Wednesday reported a 12.35 percent rise in net profit for the fiscal first quarter, meeting expectations, helped by strong sales of its sport utility vehicles and trucks.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Record profits for Australia's Commonwealth Bank

Australia's biggest lender Common-wealth Bank sounded a cautious note about the country's economic outlook Wednesday even as it posted a record Aus$9.23 billion (US$7.08 billion) in annual profit.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Down but not out: fears ease over China's weaker yuan

A year ago on Thursday Chinese authorities stunned global markets by devaluing their yuan currency, raising fears the world's second-largest economy was worse off than thought -- but investors are now more sanguine about a weaker "redback".
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Indian cold pills pour over remote border to fuel Myanmar narcotics boom

Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar's untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it?
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Bank of England Brexit plan challenged by world awash with cheap money

The Bank of England's first rate cut since 2009 looks unlikely to be passed in full to borrowers, despite the BoE being ready to lend banks as much as 100 billion pounds ($130 billion) to ensure it happens.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Global security firm G4S gets grip on overhaul, shares soar

Britain's G4S posted strong results on Wednesday, sending its shares soaring on signs the world's largest security group had bounded back after previous scandals helped by more demand for its services and a shift in focus away from the UK.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Health on Wheels in action

In the summer of 2015, I was very lucky to witness Health on Wheels in action, as well as take part in some of the procedures.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Huawei plans big for handset sales

HUAWEI aims to be a vital player in the smartphone market in Bangladesh within a short time.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Vedanta Resources aims to close merger with Cairn India in early 2017

Mining and energy group Vedanta Resources expects to complete its merger with Cairn India early next year, a move that would boost the firm's financial strength, Vedanta's CEO said on Friday.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Ukraine sees solar power as Chernobyl's future

Imagine one of the largest solar farms ever at the site of the world's worst man-made nuclear disaster that struck Chernobyl in modern-day Ukraine and sowed panic across Europe.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Kenya Airways: 'Pride of Africa' tries to stop a long fall

When Kenya Airways published the country's worst-ever corporate results last month, the scale of the loss revealed the effects of several disastrous decisions that the national carrier is struggling to reverse.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Beverley Postma joins HarvestPlus as CEO

HarvestPlus has announced the appointment of Beverley Postma as its new CEO.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

India's implementation of CPI target to aid inflation fight: Moody's

India's decision to formally implement its central inflation target of 4 percent can help moderate future price rises and support macroeconomic stability, Moody's Investors Service said on Sunday.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

China's July foreign currency reserves fall to $3.20tn

China's foreign exchange reserves fell to $3.20 trillion in July, central bank data showed on Sunday, in line with analyst expectations.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Chilean salmon industry tries to kick antibiotic habit

Chile's salmon industry, the second-largest in the world, is trying to cut back its heavy use of antibiotics, which pollute the environment and could cause new super-bacteria to emerge.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Nissan in talks with Panasonic, others to sell battery operations

Nissan Motor Co is in talks with Panasonic Corp and overseas companies including Chinese firms over the possible sale of its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Novo Nordisk cuts growth forecast as profit jumps

The world's largest maker of diabetes treatments, Novo Nordisk, on Friday lowered its annual sales and profit growth forecast, citing price pressure in the United States, as it posted a 19 percent rise in quarterly earnings.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Leading Russian mobile operator leaves troubled Uzbek market

Major Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has abandoned its stake in a lucrative joint venture in corruption-prone Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country's communications ministry said late on Friday.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM