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In Asia, markets also had their focus on China's loan prime rate (LPR) decision, where it is expected to keep the lending benchmarks unchanged after the central bank stood pat on a key policy rate earlier this week. The British pound was last 0.02% lower at $1.2936, after tumbling more than 0.7% on Wednesday in the wake of data that showed Britain's high rate of inflation falling more than expected in June to its slowest in over a year at 7.9%. That pulled back market expectations of further aggressive rate hikes from the Bank of England (BoE), with the prospect of UK rates rising above 6% now likely off the table.

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White House said Wednesday nearly a month after the historic Official State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States. «The visit last month was extremely successful and important.

World Cup game after a gunman killed two people at a downtown construction site in Auckland, roughly 12 hours ahead of co-host New Zealand's match against Norway. Norway's team hotel was located within a short distance of the shooting, which occurred in the tourist area of the city near the harbor ferry terminal. Norway captain Maren Mjelde said teammates were awakened by a helicopter hovering outside the hotel.

Mukesh Ambani’s telecom customers used up nearly six times as much data last quarter. As the billionaire businessman targets his 428 million subscribers with a new 5G service and seeks to lure another 300 million feature-phone users to smartphones, the challenge facing him has changed. When he was starting out six years ago, how to sell data in a developing country was the big issue.

India’s Tata Sons has confirmed plans to build a 4-billion-pound, or $5.2-billion, electric car battery factory in the U.K. The plant is expected to become one of Europe’s largest battery cell manufacturing sites when it begins production in 2026

Sri Lanka’s Parliament approved an anti-corruption legislation as the island nation attempts to overcome an unprecedented economic crisis

Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production

Russia warned that ships sailing to Ukraine's Black Sea ports from Thursday will be seen as potential military targets, days after its withdrawal from a safe-passage deal that threatens to worsen global food supplies. Ukraine said on Wednesday it was establishing a temporary shipping route via Romania, one of the neighbouring Black Sea countries. «Its goal is to facilitate the unblocking of international shipping in the north-western part of the Black Sea,» Vasyl Shkurakov, Ukraine's acting minister for communities, territories and infrastructure development, said in a letter to U.N.

«This is a big step from the entire group of Reliance Industries, having been successful on the retail and the telecom piece, they have really got on the retail side of the country's demand significantly,» says Sunil Shah, Veteran Fund Manager.Have you looked at the scheme of arrangement at Reliance Industries just for the sake of understanding the business model, their foray in Jio Financial and the way the stock has been? Jio Financial, of course, value will be decided but will you look at it later?This is a big step from the entire group of Reliance Industries, having been successful on the retail and the telecom piece, they have really got on the retail side of the country's demand significantly. And as a country, as we progress from about $2800 per capita to about $5000 over the next six-year journey, I think finance itself is going to be a big part of Indian consumer spend.Leverage and borrowing is no longer a bad word.

«But I think the story is just getting started in that sense because there are a couple of angles here. One is, even if companies have not been reporting good revenue numbers last quarter as well as this quarter, what is quite visible is that the deal win proportions and percentages have actually gone up, and they still look quite healthy,» says Abhiram Eleswarapu, BNP Paribas.You were still quite positive on IT despite the kind of numbers that we had seen in Q4. Incrementally, what is your view now? Are you still a buyer?Yes, we are still buyers.

Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, online videos purported to show. The videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr. It wasn't clear if there were any staff inside the complex at the time.

Netflix disappointed Wall Street on Wednesday with second-quarter revenue that fell short of analyst estimates, sending shares tumbling more than 5% in after-hours trading. The revenue figure, along with a weaker-than-expected forecast for revenue in the third quarter, overshadowed the addition of 5.9 million new streaming customers from April through June and earnings that easily topped predictions. Shares of Netflix were down 5.6% after the results at $451 apiece.

Decibels and drinking are two things that Australians are renowned for at global law firm K&L Gates, according to its US-based managing partner, Jim Segerdahl.

Investing.com-- Oil prices steadied in Asian trade on Thursday, coming under pressure from concerns over sluggish U.S. summer demand and economic weakness in China, while a recovery in the dollar also weighed. 

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) shares fell more than 4% after-hours following the company’s reported mixed Q2 earnings. While EPS of $3.29 came in better than the consensus of $2.84, revenue of $8.19 billion missed the consensus estimate of $8.27B.

AFP further reported. In response, the Russian defence ministry stated that any ships travelling to Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea would be treated as possible carriers of military cargo. Furthermore, the flag states of these vessels would be considered as taking part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kyiv regime.

First Solar of the US will invest «billions of dollars» for solar panel production in India that will not source materials from China, US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told ET. She also indicated that Tesla is in discussions for investing in India. «India brings in the notion of scale, and the US' contribution is laboratories and efforts we are making to incentivise production.

State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, is likely to carry out a sale of infrastructure bonds worth up to ₹10,000 crore around the end of this month, as it seeks to raise long-term capital amid healthy demand for credit. The bank is likely to issue 15-year infrastructure bonds with a base size of ₹5,000 crore and a green shoe option of ₹5,000 crore, sources close to the development said. In January, SBI had issued infrastructure bonds with a 15-year maturity, marking the first time that an Indian bank had sold such bonds in that maturity bracket.

Jason Aldean's music video "Try That In A Small Town," which drew criticism for its content, Country Music Television (CMT) has taken it off the air. A CMT spokesperson has confirmed the move, as per a report by USA TODAY on Wednesday. The music video faced backlash due to concerns about its portrayal of gun violence and lynching, especially considering Aldean's personal history as a survivor of a mass shooting during a performance in 2017.

The State Department says it's imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America