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police data from authoritarian states and democracies, and a global adviser on how to handle criminal trends. Secretary-General Jurgen Stock, a German who took office in 2014, has said he believes all police officers ultimately have the same goal: stopping criminals. The challenge, he said in an interview with The Associated Press, is that Interpol brings 195 very different countries into a network of databases of crimes and wanted fugitives. Interpol has no police force of its own, no weapons stockpile, and certainly no fleet of helicopters to swoop in and pluck criminals off rooftops.

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₹7,194 per bbl, having swung between ₹7,154 and ₹7,123 per bbl during the session so far, against a previous close of ₹7,218 per barrel. Against a basket of currencies, the dollar was at 104.69, not far off the six-month high of 104.90 touched overnight.

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Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures decline as investors gauge the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy and digest extended supply cuts by major oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia. Elsewhere, new data later in the session on Wednesday will provide a look into the state of the key U.S. services sector, while China's Tencent prepares to unveil a new AI chatbot.

Investing.com — U.S. stock futures traded lower Wednesday, continuing the previous session’s selloff as stronger oil prices and global economic weakness weigh on sentiment.

Oil prices hit a 10-month high of nearly USD 90 per barrel as Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their voluntary production and export cuts until the end of the year. For a nation that is more than 85 per cent dependent on imports for its oil needs, the surge in prices means India will have to shell out more and the prospect of returning to market-driven petrol and diesel prices in the near future diminished further. Brent crude prices surged around 6.5 per cent over the past week after Saudi Arabia, which leads the expanded OPEC+ cartel with Russia, decided to keep its one million barrels a day reduction in supplies to the global market until the end of December. Russia has added its own voluntary export cuts in recent months. The move has led to Brent rising above USD 90 a barrel for the first time this year on Tuesday.

Russia’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) the digital ruble continues to garner steam with positive pronouncements on use cases made by financial regulators in the country.

Premier Li Qiang will be representing China during the G20 meet set to be held between 9-10 September in national capital Delhi. Further, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has also decided to skip the G20 Summit meet in Delhi.

Nifty settled higher for the fourth consecutive session on Wednesday, September 6, supported by gains in shares of select heavyweights, including HDFC Bankand Bharti Airtel. However, weak global cues curtailed gains for them as concerns over interest rate hikes and weakening global economic growth weighs on market sentiment. In Asian markets, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong ended in the green while Seoul settled lower.

Krishna and other deities, in anticipation of Janmashtami. As per a TOI report, business owners in the region have reported a surge in demand this year, with bulk orders pouring in from over 40 countries, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, the UAE, and several European nations. Some projections suggest that Janmashtami sales could exceed a staggering Rs 200 crore. Anil Agarwal, hailing from a family with a rich history in apparel manufacturing, told TOI, «In the run-up to the festival, we've shipped costumes worth crores to overseas destinations and various states across India.

Rupee opened at 82.02 a dollar. The US dollar held close to a six-month peak on safe haven buying as jitters over China and global growth weighed on risk appetite. Against a basket of currencies, the dollar was at 104.77, not far off the six-month high of 104.90 touched on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

global growth and higher crude prices spurring inflationary pressures dented sentiment. The pan-European STOXX 600 index slipped 0.6% to hit its lowest level in more than a week. The global mood soured as Brent crude prices jumped to over $90 a barrel on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their voluntary supply cuts to year end, fuelling worries about persistent price pressures. While oil prices pulled back slightly, government bond yields continued to rise, with the German 10-year yield surging to a two-week high at 2.65%. «Energy prices are big inflationary drivers, and just at the time when the price spiral appears to be moving more obediently downwards, high crude prices could cause upset,» noted Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown. The weak sentiment from August spilled into this month on worries about how long the major central banks will keep interest rates elevated amid fresh signs of weakness in Chinese and European economies. Investors betting against a European Central Bank interest rate increase next week could be underestimating the likelihood of it happening, the ECB's governing council member Klaas Knot told Bloomberg.Money market futures imply traders are pricing in only a 33% chance that the ECB will hike rates by 25 basis points at the central bank's Sept.

Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday in a gesture of support as Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces grinds into its fourth month with only small gains. During his two-day visit, staying overnight in Ukraine for the first time since before Russia's February 2022 invasion, Blinken will likely announce a new package of U.S. assistance worth more than $1 billion, a senior State Department official said in a briefing for reporters on the trip. Blinken, on the first trip to Kyiv by a top U.S.

A U.S. official said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia soon to meet with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin tries to acquire military equipment for use in its war in Ukraine.

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and blockchain technology are likely to displace traditional banks, according to a lawmaker in Russia.

This week's sharp rise in Brent price after OPEC+ leaders Saudi Arabia and Russia announced that they would extend supply curbs through the end of the year has led to OMCs' GMM declining to negative 0.1 per litre, according to calculations done by JM Financial. «There is a high expectation that the government may also cut petrol/diesel prices by Rs 3-5/ltr around Diwali given key state elections start from Nov-Dec '23. This cut should mostly happen via a reduction in excise duty and/or VAT given OMCs are losing on the auto-fuel marketing business at the current high crude price,» said JM Financial's oil and gas analysts Dayanand Mittal and Shivam Gupta. They do not rule out a scenario whereby the government may nudge OMCs to cut petrol/diesel prices as their balance sheets have largely been repaired due to likely strong profits in 1HFY24. Last week, the government reduced the price of domestic LPG by Rs 200 per cylinder for all 330 million domestic LPG consumers to give relief to the common man from the recent surge in inflation.

Global private equity giant TPG’s Australian pathology business, TissuPath, has suffered a data breach with a decade’s worth of patient request forms being released on the dark web.

A Russian beauty salon in Yekaterinburg has become one of the first businesses in the nation to accept a digital ruble payment – breaking new ground for the nation’s CBDC.

rupee depreciated 5 paise to 83.09 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday as elevated crude oil prices and strength of the American currency weighed on investor sentiments. Forex traders said the rupee is trading lower on strong dollar and sustained foreign fund outflows over the past few days. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic unit opened at 83.08, then touched 83.09, registering a decline of 5 paise over its last close. On Tuesday, the rupee plunged by 33 paise to close at 83.04 against the US dollar. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, fell marginally by 0.09 per cent to 104.71. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.07 per cent to USD 90.10 per barrel. Saudi Arabia and Russia shook the oil world when they extended production cuts to December taking Brent oil to USD 90.19 per barrel, Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP said. This spelled tighter supplies in the next four months as markets expected a supply cut only up to October.

Peter McGuire, CEO, XM Australia, says “the uncertainty across the whole sector was severely sold down as far as the producers were concerned. It has rallied very strongly in the last couple of months from that early $70s all the way through to early 90s. There seems to be further upside ahead of it. Many traders are now saying $100 is achievable in September, and I would not be surprised if it takes that number out.”What is leading to the crude rally and do you see an escalation above $90 on Brent?Yes, a couple of things.