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The second quarter was tough for Canadian banks, with higher provisions for potential credit losses and escalating costs for employees and technology eating into earnings. But the extent to which the trouble spills over into third-quarter results, which the banks will report beginning Aug. 24, has sector watchers divided.

NEW DELHI : Strong domestic cement demand led to cement companies reporting strong double-digit volume growth during the previous quarter but the limited improvement in realisations and lower-than-expected decline in costs meant that overall performance was a mixed bag. Data compiled by Mint for 42 cement companies showed that the net profit improvement was tepid at 5.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) during Q1. Also, on a sequential basis the net profit declined 12%.

airport back-up and helipad support. Indeed, it would not be a surprise if the Centre opts to sweeten the deal in an effort to attract more takers. With a long patch of weak competition in Indian skies expected to give way to an air-capacity boom as a new era of rivalry gets underway, a relaunch will have its advocates.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that inflationary risks were rising and he told the government and central bank to keep the situation under control.

rice fortification programme before the scheduled target of March 2024, a top food ministry official said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address in 2021, said the government aims to distribute fortified rice via the government schemes by 2024. Thereafter, a scheme for the distribution of fortified rice, containing prescribed micronutrients (Iron, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12) was launched in October 2021 in a phased manner in order to address the problem of anaemia in children and women. In April 2022, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the supply of fortified rice throughout the Public Distribution System (PDS), Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman-PM POSHAN (erstwhile Mid-Day Meal Scheme) and other welfare schemes in all states and Union Territories (UTs) by 2024 in a phased manner. The entire cost of rice fortification, which is around Rs 2,700 crore per annum, would be borne by the Centre as part of the food subsidy till its full implementation up to June 2024. «We had planned to complete the universalisation of fortified PDS rice by March 2024.

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Conventional wisdom has it that the Bank of Canada is not done raising interest rates. Statistics Canada reported last week that year-over-year increases in the consumer price index accelerated to 3.3 per cent in July from 2.8 per cent in June, despite a staggering numbers of rate hikes since early 2022.

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FMCG) companies during Q1 have highlighted continued signs of rural recovery, boosting volume growth, according to domestic brokerage Axis Securities, following the April-June (Q1FY24) earnings season. Companies have indicated that volume growth is anticipated to pick up gradually, the brokerage added, even though a full recovery in rural areas would take a few more months. Due to the stability of the pricing of essential raw materials such as palm, packaging, and petroleum, most companies have shown sequential improvement in their gross margins.

Calcutta Chamber of Commerce here, he however said that GST has led to a lot of simplification. «The ideal GST is one that has a single rate, and it was meant to be revenue neutral. When it was introduced, there were some calculations by the Ministry of Finance then that said, in order to be revenue neutral, the average GST rate must be at least 17 per cent. »The average rate now is 11.4 per cent.

OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada will challenge what Ottawa described as «unfair, unjust and illegal» U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber products, the trade ministry said on Tuesday.

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Investing.com — President Jerome Powell is set to potentially deliver fresh clues on monetary policy later this week, but while many aren’t expecting the Fed chief's remarks to be laced with the warning of the “pain” from last year,  there are worries that he may tee up the idea of steeper longer-term interest rates.   

(Reuters) -S&P Global cut its credit ratings and outlook on multiple U.S. regional banks on Monday, saying higher funding costs and troubles in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector would likely test their credit strength.

Investing.com — Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) has reported a smaller-than-anticipated decline in second-quarter gross profit and backed its annual financial guidance, as online sales growth helped offset lower demand for nonessential items.

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agricultural data that will be collected, and are working with startups and agtech providers to gain footholds in the sector. In March, Amazon Web Services partnered with the agtech startup Leaf, which provides connectors between data sources in different formats. AWS also works with John Deere, providing cloud services for the machinery manufacturer’s data services, the Amazon cloud unit said.

reality for thousands of European startups, many of which have had to scale back expansion plans as venture-capital funding plunges following sluggish economic growth and rising interest rates. Improved returns now offered by bonds and other relatively safe investments have drawn many European investors away from riskier, less familiar asset classes such as startups. Venture-capital funding has dropped significantly in the U.S.

The Abhay Narendra Lodha Foundation was established on January 18, 2010, and is a non-profit charitable organization. It was founded by Abhay Lodha, Chairman, Topworth Group, which is primarily in the business of manufacturing steel and iron products. As part of the Foundation’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) role, the Foundation has undertaken a number of environmental initiatives.