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Excluding one-off special dividends, regular dividends were down 3.5% to £25.3bn on a constant-currency basis, according to Computershare's Quarterly Dividend Monitor.  As a result of the recent figures, the 2024 dividend forecast was amended down to £92.3bn, although up 2% on a headline basis. Meanwhile, the forecast for regular dividends (excluding one-offs) is predicted to drop to £86.8bn. Global dividends surge to record high as UK lags behind This quarterly figure was the lowest quarter for dividend hand outs since 2020.  Mark Cleland, CEO of issuer services UK, Channel Isl...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The question is simple: Who is going to win in November? The answer is complex, because it derives from a mix of many different trends and campaign efforts that must come together to produce a single result. At this point Donald Trump has an edge, but that edge could easily disappear.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Edible oil prices are on the boil again. The ‘oils and fats’ group in India’s consumer price index rose 2.5% year-on-year in September, marking the first increase in nearly two years and adding inflationary pressures at a time when the country is already reeling under the strain of high food prices.

All but one of Canada’s six biggest lenders now expect the central bank to cut borrowing costs by half a percentage point after inflation cooled by more than expected last month.

Canada’s inflation rate fell to 1.6 per cent in September, dropping well below the Bank of Canada’s two per cent target and increasing bets that the central bank will accelerate cuts to its policy interest rate.

RBI policy might have surprised the market with its dovish tone and stance change to neutral, but the change in RBI policy was already visible in its liquidity management. Indeed, since July 2024, interbank liquidity surplus has averaged ~INR1.2tn (0.5% of NDTL or deposits). The last time similar levels of surplus liquidity were seen was in June to August last year and the RBI responded by imposing incremental ICRR of 10%. In contrast during the current phase of liquidity surplus, RBI has refrained from any strong liquidity absorbing measures. Persisting with VRRRs and VRRs to keep the weighted average call rate near the repo rate. The TREPS rate where maximum volume of transactions take place, has been averaging below the repo rate over the last few months.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A rise in inflation in September was expected as the dissipating base effect would have reversed the comfort seen in the previous two months. However, inflation jumped to a nine-month high of 5.49%, higher than economists’ expectations, as vegetable prices surged sharply during the month.

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Britain’s new Labour Party government is announcing billions of pounds in investment in U.K. artificial intelligence, life sciences and infrastructure at a business summit

September's headline Consumer Price Index figure stood below August's 2.5% reading, but still came in slightly hotter than economists' expectations of 2.3%.  The annual rate of core inflation, which excludes the more volatile food and energy items, rose faster than expected to 3.3%, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Energy prices fell 6.8% in the year to September, while food inflation increased 2.3% over the last year. On a monthly basis, inflation held up at 0.2% for September, the same figure as the previous two months, driven by increases in food and shelter inflatio...

Kamala Harris may be looking at getting the edge over her Republican adversary Donald Trump in the upcoming US elections in November, but things may not be so easy if she does not change some of her strategies, including increasing her media presence, which is the need of the hour. According to a previous ET report, there are already questions on her reduced media presence, that has led to losing her acceptability and popularity among US voters, which she needs to heal, with just weeks left for the US elections.

Crypto All-Stars’ ($STARS) presale has surpassed $2 million in capital raised, fuelled by a bullish 24 hours for the meme coin sector.

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977, as per an AP report. American consumers will notice the shortage of products if the massive strike by dockworkers at seaports lasts for a long time. Workers at ports started a strike on Tuesday from Maine to Texas, which marks a significant strike of labor in the shipping industry. The International Longshoremen’s Association has conducted this kind of action for the first time in nearly half a century.

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Rajesh Kumar made headlines a few days ago when he revealed how he had left his flourishing career on the small screen to pursue a career in farming. The ‘Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai’ actor also stated how he once resorted to selling vegetables in front of his son’s school. In the same interview, Kumar talked about his several failed attempts as an entrepreneur. He also revealed that he had once tried to be on ‘Shark Tank India’, but couldn’t make it. “I had applied for Shark Tank India. I had cleared two out of three rounds. You also had to submit your videos, so I thought, I might get a favour because I am a known face. That there is an actor, who is a social entrepreneur talking about agriculture. My presentation was in Kolkata and it was wrapped within a day. My father paid for the tickets,” he said. The actor claimed that at that time, he was «so shaken» that he didn't think he could get offers for movies without going to auditions. Fortunately, when the opportunity to work on Nawazuddin Siddiqui's movie ‘Haddi’ arose, he was ready for it.

Miss Universe Korea pageant, making headlines globally. Choi Soon-hwa, standing alongside much younger contestants, is determined to challenge societal perceptions of age. Her participation highlights a significant shift in the pageant world.

Ranbir Kapoor fans got the best surprise on the ‘Animal’ star’s 42nd birthday. If reports are to be believed, the ‘Animal’ actor has been roped to headline ‘Dhoom 4’. This will be the fourth installment of the insanely successful ‘Dhoom’ franchise. Produced by Yash Raj Films, the ‘Dhoom’ franchise is known for being one of the most iconic action series.

  Invesco Global Market Strategist Brian Levitt says inflation has returned to its comfort zone on Barrons Roundtable.

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Economic Survey a readable government literature, had teasingly proposed in 2016 that a chunk of RBI capital could be freed up to recapitalise banks. Shortly after he left as CEA in 2018, Subramanian buttressed the concept in Economic & Political Weekly. Most brushed it off as musings by a non-conformist economist who had differences with colleagues and peers. But few sensed it was a harbinger of a plan to use the central bank's excess capital: backed by a panel report, it paved the way for RBI to give generous dividends to GoI. Almost a decade later, another CEA has sparked a debate on another esoteric issue rooted in the political economy. After this year's Survey (prepared under CEA's guidance) questioned the efficacy of India's inflation-targeting framework — under which RBI aims at 4% inflation with a tolerance band of ±2% — present CEA V Anantha Nageswaran, in an article, dwelled on how powerless RBI is in influencing 'headline inflation', which factors in changes in food and fuel prices over which it has no control.