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UK PM Rishi Sunak Follows US President Joe Biden Into Israel
In international commodity markets, oil fell as the US also eased crude sanctions against Venezuela, causing oil to drop back after spiking because of middle east war tensions
Joe Biden's Visit To Israel fails to Calm Fears
US President Joe Biden's arrival in Israel early Wednesday and meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu did little to calm the markets, particularly oil which shot up after a missile strike tore apart a hospital in Gaza and killed hundreds
Wheat Prices Continue To Rise And Hit 8-Month High
Indian wheat prices surged to an eight-month high on Tuesday, thanks to strong demand in the festival season, limited supplies and as a 40% import duty makes imports from overseas unviable for domestic flour mill
Diplomacy In The Middle East Keeps Oil And Markets Steady
Oil picked up fast on Friday, gaining $5 a barrel to touch $91 in London before slipping back slightly. What's holding it here is the major diplomatic efforts by the United States and others to restrain Israel from launching a ground attack on Gaza
Markets And Oil Turn Nervous As Israel Threats Ground Invasion Of Gaza
Markets are now bracing for a difficult week as investors grapple between multiple signals, ranging from a potentially widening war and thus oil prices and then interest rates
Falling Food Prices Bring Down Inflation Sharply To 5.02%
India's consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation for September eased to 5.02 per cent as against 6.83 per cent in August, according to the data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Thursday
Monsoon Recovery Pushes Up Demand For FMCG, Stores Gear For Festival Rush
The monsoon recovery in September has boosted demand and perception of demand on the part of kirana stores or corner shops quite literally across India. Which is leading to increased stocking ahead of a potential festival season spike.
The IMF Has Raised FY24 India Growth Projection To 6.3%
The IMF's latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) kept its global growth forecast unchanged at 3 per cent for 2023 while paring down the 2024 projection by 10 basis points to 2.9 per cent
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Govindraj Ethiraj
Govindraj Ethiraj is a television & print journalist and also founder of IndiaSpend.org & Boomlive.in, data journalism and fact check initiatives. He very recently launched a business news initiative, www.thecore.in as Editor. Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media) with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or web platform. He also spent around five years each with CNBC-TV18 & The Economic Times. He is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute, Colorado, a McNulty Prize Laureate 2018 & a winner of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leadership Awards for 2014.
