Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Disappointment over the railway budget, coupled with derivatives expiry and a weak rupee subdued Indian equity markets during the afternoon trade session on Thursday. Negative Asian markets also dented sentiments. This…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 25 (IANS) Kottayam-headquartered Mangalam group, which publishes a daily newspaper and several magazines, has said it will soon launch a TV news channel in Malayalam. The channel will be an addition to the…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Positive expectations from the upcoming railway budget buoyed stocks of companies associated with the Indian railroads during the volatile morning trade session on Thursday. Market analysts attributed the rise on short-covering…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Feb 25 (IANS) Citing a win over India in a dispute challenging India’s “localisation” rules against US solar exports, President Barack Obama served notice that his administration would move aggressively to…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Positive expectations from the upcoming railway budget buoyed stocks of companies associated with the Indian railroads during the volatile morning trade session on Thursday. Market analysts attributed the rise on short-covering…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Ahead of the presentation of the railway budget for the next fiscal year, key Indian equity indices opened flat on Thursday, with additional caution due to the expiry of contracts for…
Tokyo, Feb 25 (IANS) Tokyo shares ended higher on Thursday following an upbeat overnight US equity market and the rebounding oil prices. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average jumped 111.24 points, or 0.70 percent, higher from…
Abu Dhabi, Feb 25 (IANS/WAM) The Abu Dhabi International Airport has been awarded a Management System Certificate for Business Continuity Management. This makes the airport the first in the Middle East, and one of a…
Dhaka, Feb 25 (IANS) Bangladesh is set to become a founding member of the Chinese-government initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as the country’s parliament has passed a bill in this connection, the media reported…
Beijing, Feb 25 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.23 percent, at 2,922.24 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.16 percent lower at 10,290.96 points, Xinhua news…
Beijing, Feb 25 (IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 16 basis points to 6.5318 against the US dollar on Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading…
Tokyo, Feb 25 (IANS) Tokyo shares opened the trading on Thursday higher following gains in the overnight US stocks market and the rise in oil prices. At 9.15 a.m. (local time), the 225-issue Nikkei Stock…
Madrid, Feb 25 (IANS) The Spanish stock market index Ibex-35 fell 3.07 percent to close at 8,013.70 points, down from the 8,267.60 points of the previous session. IAG shares led falls losing 5.09 percent on…
Frankfurt, Feb 25 (IANS) The benchmark DAX index at Frankfurt Stock Exchange went down by nearly 250 points and closed at 9,167.8 points. The blue-chip index plunged by 248.97 points, or 2.64 percent on Wednesday,…
Washington, Feb 24 (PTI) A top American environmentalist group today slammed the WTO over its ruling against India’s solar localisation policies for US firms. Alleging that almost half of US states have a programme like…
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) US stocks reversed early sharp losses to end higher as signs of stabilization in oil prices soothed anxious investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 53.21 points, or 0.32 percent,…
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) Oil prices increased as US crude data came out mixed. US crude supplies of last week added 3.5 million barrels to 507.6 million barrels, 73.5 million barrels more than one…
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) The US dollar traded mixed against other major currencies as the economic data from the country came out worse than expected. In late New York trading on Wednesday, the euro…
London, Feb 25 (IANS) FTSE 100 Index, British benchmark stock market gauge decreased by 1.60 percent, or 95.13 points, to 5,867.18 points. Share price of Persimmon increased by 2.27 percent, topped the gainers of the…
Hyderabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Uber, the global tech-based transportation firm, on Wednesday opened a Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad, its first in Asia and fifth globally. The Centre of Excellence (CoE) is part of the…