Asian equities edged higher on Wednesday as investors weighed developments in US-Iran nuclear discussions and fresh details of Japan’s investment commitments to Washington.Tokyo led regional gains, with the Nikkei rising 1.23% or 684 points to 57,250 at 10:07 am IST, after the United States confirmed the first batch of funding from the $550 billion Japan…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan,” under which Tokyo will make a “$550 BILLION commitment to invest in the United States of America.” The White House unveiled three large-scale investment projects backed by Tokyo with a combined value of $36 billion, representing the first tranche under Japan’s $550…
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NEW DELHI: Despite the surge in gold and silver imports upsetting the trade balance, the trends for the two precious metals are very different. With the average price of gold rising nearly 25% on a year-on-year basis to $94,554 a kg during April-Dec, buyers became cautious, resulting in demand falling. Data released by the commerce…
MUMBAI: Even as property prices continued to rise at a faster pace – 2.2 % in the Dec quarter, rental demand declined by 2.4% quarter-on-quarter across India, indicating a market adjusting to yield compression rather than a broad-based slowdown, Magicbricks said in a report. Chennai emerged as the top market in terms of gross rental…
Purchasing a property is one of the most important financial transactions that a person undertakes in their lifetime, and it is therefore imperative to ensure that the property is legal and compliant with the relevant regulations to prevent any form of disputes, fraud, or liabilities in the future.As we see several cases of ownership disputes…
The National Green Tribunal gave a green light to Centre’s Rs 90,000-crore-plus Great Nicobar infrastructure project on Monday, concluding that the environmental clearance granted in 2022 was backed by sufficient safeguards and there was no “good ground to interfere.“ A bench of the tribunal dismissed a series of petitions that had questioned the validity of…
Türkiye’s Getir Demands $700M From Abu Dhabi Investor Mubadala in Bitter Breakup In a major escalation of the ongoing dispute between a once-high-flying delivery start-up and its largest investor, the co-founders of Turkish food and grocery delivery startup Getir, Nazım Salur and Serkan Borançılı, have filed a $700 million lawsuit against Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has purchased government securities equivalent to 47 per cent of the Centre’s total bond issuances so far in FY26 to support liquidity in the banking system, according to public data.According to news agency PTI , the data compiled from RBI showed that the Centre raised Rs 13,65,000 crore between…
Shares of Infosys surged as much as 5 per cent to Rs 1,430.95 on the BSE on Tuesday after the IT major announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic, offering relief to investors worried about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on traditional software services.The stock rally marks a sharp reversal for Infosys, which had been…