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JPMorgan Chase’s third-quarter profit soared 35% from last year, fueled by a rapid rise in interest rates, but the bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, issued a sobering statement about the current state of world affairs and economic instability

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JPMorgan Chase delivered strong profits for the third quarter along with a stern warning Friday from its top executive about the perils the world faces from multiple threats.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted another quarter of record net interest income and boosted its forecast for the year as the company benefits from higher interest rates and its purchase of First Republic Bank. 

International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday clarified on the suspension of Russian Olympic body and said that individuals who have Russian passport can participate, however, Russia as a country will not be allowed to participate in the Olympic games. "We will allow individual players with Russian passports.

palm oil imports in September fell 26% from the previous month to 834,797 metric tons, the lowest in three months, as higher inventories prompted refiners to curtail purchases, a trade body said on Friday. Lower purchases by the world's biggest importer of vegetable oils could lead to higher stocks of palm oil in key producers Indonesia and Malaysia, weighing on benchmark futures. Imports of soyoil edged 0.1% higher to 358,557 tons and those of sunflower oil were down about 17.8% at 300,732 tons, the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said in a statement. Vegetable oil imports fell about 17% to 1.55 million tons from last month's record purchases of 1.87 million tons, it added. «India imported more than necessary during July and August, but retail demand in the country is weak. Refiners are now struggling to sell imported oil,» said a Mumbai-based edible oil trader. In recent months, India has emerged as a primary destination for surplus oil supplies due to its lower import duty of 5.5% on crude palm oil, crude soybean oil, and crude sunflower oil, said B.V.

euro zone’s economy is increasingly falling behind America’s. As we report, the worst-suffering European economies are grappling with inflation of over 10%, rapid ageing, high public and private debts and exposure to autocracies. This week the IMF said the euro-zone economy would grow by only 0.7% in 2023.

Taylor Swift and Beyonce raking it in with tours that are giving local economies a boost. Big-spending Swifties Swiftmania is at an all-time high, and it is leaping from the stadium to the cinema, where a film on Swift's Eras tour out Friday in over 100 countries worldwide has already clocked up more than $100 million in ticket pre-sales. The tour itself, which finishes in December 2024, is poised to become the first tour to make $1 billion.

Americans are uneasy as war returns to another part of the world, and Washington is slow to confront the growing danger. Priority No. 1 is an all-out national effort to expand U.S.

By Katya Golubkova and Andrew Hayley

AFP. "Thank you to everyone who defends the principles of Olympism." After the IOC decision, Russia's Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin on social media.

Oil prices rose on Friday after the U.S. tightened its sanctions programme against Russian crude exports, raising supply concerns in an already tight market, and global inventories are forecast to decline through the fourth quarter. Brent futures rose 36 cents, or 0.4%, to $86.36 per barrel and U.S.

By Andrea Shalal

The German government has drawn up legislation to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers and plans to discuss measures to tackle migration with the opposition as it tries to defuse what has become a major political problem

The Treasury Department has imposed its first set of sanctions on two companies that shipped Russian oil in violation of a multinational price cap

The International Monetary Fund says Middle East economies are gradually recovering as external shocks from the war in Ukraine and global inflation fade

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Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin may be in pipeline this year. The venue and timings of the meeting are yet to be finalised while the two sides are in touch to finalise they meet, ET has learnt. The two last met at Samarkand in 2022 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit sidelines.

India's retail inflation eases to 5.02% in September, comes within RBI's tolerance mark after two months Most experts expected retail inflation to be in the range of 5.3 per cent to 5.5 per cent as they pointed out a significant decline in select food items. The recent drop in inflation to a three-month low is a significant positive development on the macroeconomic front. Notably, the September CPI inflation rate at 5.02 per cent is below the upper threshold of the RBI's acceptable range of 2 to 6 per cent.

NATO will hold a major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance's chief said Thursday, in an announcement that came after Russia warned it would pull out of a global nuclear test ban agreement. NATO's «Steadfast Noon» exercise is held annually and runs for about a week. It involves fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads but does not involve any live bombs.

By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis