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This time is different: Outside OPEC, oil firms aren't raising production

Oil industry is on the ropes, constrained by Wall Street investors demanding that companies focus on returning more money to shareholders.

Govt considers enhancing Rs 3 trn loan-guarantee for small firms: Report

It may allow small companies to borrow an additional 30% of their credit limit, up from 20% announced last year.

Finland start-up targets to remove car addiction, cut carbon emissions

MaaS Global says its app can fix urban congestion and reduce pollution.

Britain PM Boris Johnson marries fiancee in secret ceremony, says reports

According to reports by the Sun and Mail, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony in Westminster Cathedral.

US announces sanctions on Belarus over dissident journalist's detention

Belarus earlier this week forced the landing of a jetliner carrying Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist and outspoken critic of the Lukashenko regime, as it was traveling between Greece and Lithuania

Here is how coronavirus outbreak is changing the way Indians buy gold

While buyers have been slowly shifting away from the thousands of family-run jewelry shops that control the bulk of the world's second-biggest gold market, the pandemic has sped up the process

Retail traders frenzy lifts three of Asia's top-performing stock markets

The proliferation of cheap trading apps on smartphones and mobile devices remains a key catalyst for the trend

Four key charts to indicate whether latest rally in gold can be sustained

Bullion is one of the best-performing commodities this month, erasing almost all of this year's losses.

'You feel numb': India's markets keep rising as traders cope with Covid-19

Booming markets have left industry swamped with work at a time when many employees have been sickened by the virus.

UK approves single-shot J&J Covid vaccine adding to British arsenal

The authorisation gives Britain a fourth shot in its arsenal, though its use may be initially limited given more than half the population has already received one vaccine dose

Shock divorce forces $50 bn Gates foundation to weigh changes, focus

There are signs change is coming to one of the world's most powerful philanthropic organisations.

Glut of dollar drives usage of Fed reverse repo facility to record

Even though the offering rate on the Fed facility is 0 per cent, demand has been increasing as a flood of cash overwhelms U.S. dollar funding markets

Space plane start-up promises one-hour rides to anywhere on Earth

Venus Aerospace Corp., a startup pursuing a hypersonic space plane, is aiming to ferry people from Los Angeles to Tokyo in about an hour

Japan extends state of emergency to control Covid before hosting Olympics

The prime minister faces enormous pressure to keep the virus under control, and the public is worried the global sports spectacle could turn into a superspreader event

Tamil Nadu, India's 2nd-most industrialised state, in favour of debt recast

The states' inflated debt sale schedule alludes to that possibility. They are scheduled to borrow as much as Rs 1.78 trillion ($25 billion) from the market in the April-June quarter

Sandwich chain to tailor: Companies adapt again as workers return to office

Retailers like sandwich chain Pret a Manger Ltd can serve as a model for how to accommodate remote workers.

Easier said than done but India should buy Chinese Covid-19 vaccines

There cannot be a bigger national interest right now than saving Indians from avoidable death.

10,800 women suing Google over gender pay disparity win class-action status

They claim that Google pays men more for doing the same job, seek more than $600 million in damages.

Oil rallies above $67 as demand optimism outweighs Iran supply concerns

Investors wager that progress in combating the Covid-19 pandemic will spur energy consumption.

A warming planet is about to revolutionise how banks define risk

The ECB instructs banks to consider their sensitivity to climate risk when weighing how much capital they need beyond minimum requirements