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India's April-Sept fiscal deficit touches $70.4 billion: Govt data

Net tax receipts were 9.2 trillion rupees while total expenditure was 16.3 trillion rupees, the data showed

'Just give us our money': Taliban push to unlock Afghan billions

Afghanistan parked billions of dollars in assets overseas with the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in Europe

Evergrande makes coupon payment ahead of Friday deadline: Reports

Shares of Evergrande rose more than 1% in early trading on Friday, versus a 0.4% decline in the Hang Seng Index.

Dollar holds losses to euro after ECB comments, economic data

The dollar held losses to the euro and British pound late on Thursday

Facebook changes name to Meta as it refocuses on virtual reality

The new name reflected its ambitions to build the metaverse, rather than its namesake social media service, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg

US growth rate slows to 2% on Delta surge, supply chain worries

Shortages, transportation bottlenecks, rising prices and the delta variant of the coronavirus weighed on both goods and services spending

S&P, Nasdaq hit record closing highs on earnings bullishness

Amazon.com, Apple fall in late trade after quarterly reports; Caterpillar, Merck rise after posting higher profits

Apple sales miss expectations, Cook says supply issues cost company $6 bn

Tim Cook said that the impact will be even worse during the current holiday sales quarter

Meme-teoric: 'Shiba inu' tokens gain 87,000,000% in a year

Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $1.2 trillion, was up a little over 4 per cent on Thursday, but below the record high it hit last week

China builders hit by downgrades as Evergrande deadline looms

Evergrande faces a final deadline on Friday for a $47.5 million coupon payment that was due September 29

France seizes UK fishing boat in deepening post-Brexit row

It's not war, but it is a fight, says French minister; extra customs checks on British goods

Oil prices hit two-week low on Iran talks resuming, US crude build

Brent crude was $1.06, or 1.2%, lower at $83.52 a barrel by 12:31 p.m ET (1631 GMT), having hit a two-week low of $82.32 earlier in the session and falling 2.1% on Wednesday.

Facebook's Zuckerberg lays out 'metaverse' vision at developers event

Facebook continues to battle criticism over its market power, its content moderation practices and harms linked to its social media platforms

First reality check launched for corporate climate claims: Details here

Large companies must convince the SBTi that they have a credible plan to halve their emissions before 2030 and eliminate 90-95 per cent of emissions before 2050 compared with a base year after 2015

China's Guangdong reports human infection of H5N6 bird flu

The Health Commission of Guangdong Province said in a statement that experts considered the risk of transmission to be low at this stage

Global stocks fall, gold gains as US economic growth slows sharply

The MSCI All World Stock Index was down 0.06% at 741.31 points, barely below its lifetime high of 749.16 points hit last month

US economy slows sharply in Q3; weekly jobless claims at new 19-month low

Strong inflation, fueled by the economy-wide shortages and pandemic relief money from the government over the course of the public health crisis, cut into growth

IndiGo parent posts wider quarterly loss as airline's fuel expenses soar

Fuel expenses in the quarter soared 207.8 per cent.

Moscow locks down as Russian Covid-19 deaths surge to new highs

Like Moscow, some regions decided to kick off their partial lockdowns on Thursday or even earlier in an effort to cut infection numbers ahead of the nationwide initiative.

Morgan Stanley downgrades Indian equities over expensive valuations

Morgan Stanley's downgrade follows similar moves by Nomura and UBS