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National Association of Home Builders CEO Jim Tobin explains how local governments have tied up housing construction projects.

MUMBAI — The Indian banking sector exited its worst-ever downcycle after Covid, which led to a major clean-up in the balance sheet across the board. But it’s public sector banks that have seen an almost 360 degree shift in earnings performance, and this reflects in the stock prices, as many of them turned multibaggers since the pandemic. Despite the rally, many of the PSU banks are still reasonably valued, believes P Krishnan, CIO and Managing Director, Spark Asia Impact Managers.

Federal Reserve officials close in on the end of their tightening campaign, the debate is shifting from how high interest rates need to go to how long they should stay elevated. Inflation pressures are easing, which could give policymakers room to keep interest rates at or near current levels for the time being. Still, price gains remain well above the central bank's 2% target, making policymakers hesitant to declare victory. Introducing the discussion over how long officials may keep rates steady even if inflation continues to decelerate could help them push back on expectations for rate cuts and allow them to keep putting downward pressure on the economy. «This is the policy dimension that they will likely focus on the most going forward: Not how much higher to take the federal funds rate, but how long to keep it at these levels,» said Brian Sack, a former senior Fed official who earlier this year left D.E. Shaw & Co. after about a decade as head of the investment firm's global economics group. «There's still a lot of scope to tighten financial conditions in that way, if they wanted to.» Fed officials unanimously raised their benchmark rate last month to a target range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the highest level in 22 years. Minutes from that gathering — set for release on Wednesday afternoon — could provide more insight into whether most policymakers believe those increases have already worked their way through the economy or if they still expect to see more effects.

Bank of India is shifting its focus on lending with higher profitability even if it means giving up some opportunities where earnings are next to nothing, said CEO Rajneesh Karnatak. In an interview with Joel Rebello, he said although there are risks building up in some segments of retail loans, they are just transitory and banking can only get better as economic prospects improve. Edited excerpts:Bank of India has just gotten out of its worst phase with the return of profits and falling bad loans. Where does it go from here? In any transaction, or business we are doing, we are trying to make commercial sense out of it, whether it is on the credit side or while taking deposits.

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Australia is set to fall well short of its 2030 target for 82 per cent renewable energy, with extra measures needed to move it past 64 per cent, according to research firm Rystad Energy, which expects Origin’s Eraring coal power station to have to run for several years longer to prevent spiking prices.

NEW DELHI : Vegetables’ contribution to retail inflation surged to a 42-month high in July while that of tomatoes rose to a 65-month high, unexpectedly taking the headline figure beyond the 7% mark for the first time in nearly a year, a Mint analysis showed. One-third (32%) of the total year-on-year (y-o-y) shift in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in July came from the sharp rise in vegetable prices alone, with more than half of this coming from tomatoes, posing a dilemma for the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that has held rates steady since April. On a y-o-y basis, overall retail prices rose 7.4%, vegetable prices rose 37%, and tomato prices tripled last month, data released on Monday showed.

diverse workforce, India's top corporates have only three persons with disabilities ( PwD) for every 1,000 employees on rolls, an ET analysis showed. According to latest workforce data reported by Nifty 50 constituent companies as part of their annual disclosures, only five out of these 50 companies have more than 1% people with disabilities on their rolls, with four of them being public sector companies. To be sure, public sector companies are required to reserve 4% of all jobs for disabled people in compliance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — a target which all the analyzed companies fall short of.

College students heading to campus over the next few weeks will soon be focusing on their reading assignments, essays and exams. Many of their parents, meanwhile, will be tasked with their own homework after dropping their budding scholars off at school – figuring out the most tax-efficient ways to pay the tuition.  

Mint poll of 19 economists was knocked out by a huge jump in vegetable prices in general and tomato in particular. Mint examines the details: Retail inflation is measured using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Nearly two-fifths of the CPI is made up of food items.

Tesla added new lower-range iterations of the Model S sedan and Model X sport utility vehicle to its lineup that cost $US10,000 ($15,460) less than their previous base prices.

Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are preparing to release findings from taxpayer-financed studies on possible links between the natural gas industry and pediatric cancer, asthma and poor birth outcomes

HP Inc. has failed to shunt aside claims in a lawsuit that it disables scanners and other functions on its multifunction printers whenever the ink runs low

Energy-rich countries across the Middle East and North Africa are struggling to keep power flowing to their own citizens during intense summer heat, with Egypt the latest to impose rolling blackouts. The outages here have prompted concerns that Cairo’s domestic gas supply is running low. Iran and Iraq, both oil exporters, are also facing blackouts as blistering temperatures envelop the region, with the thermometer reaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad, buckling aging power grids.

coronavirus pandemic. Since banks base the rates they pay out in part on the fed-funds rate, savers suffered. Over the past few years, spiking inflation has compounded the problem, with savers sacrificing significant spending power.

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NEW DELHI : Aurobindo Pharma Ltd saw its stock prices more than double during the last few months, from 52-week lows of ₹397.20 on the National Stock Exchange on 3 February to 52-week highs of ₹887.70 on 14 August. The turnaround in the company’s prospects has been aided by an improved outlook for its US formulations business, which contributes almost half of the company’s overall revenues. The base business in the US remains stable helped by lower competitive intensity.

Slatestone Wealth chief market strategist Kenny Polcari reacts to wholesale inflation rising more than expected in July on Varney & Co.

Joe Biden and his team get little credit for their management of the American economy. Aware that the 2024 presidential election, like most, will turn on economic conditions, or perceptions of economic conditions, the president has taken to the hustings with his mantra that “Bidenomics is working." But while Bidenomics may be working, the message is not. A CBS/YouGov poll conducted between 26 and 28 July 2023 gave Biden just a 34% approval rating on the economy.

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Fitch’s recent downgrade of U.S. public debt, dropping it one notch below “AAA,” is good reason to examine the relationship between U.S. debt and the dollar’s future as a reserve currency. The greenback is just the latest in a series of preferred currencies that have been used for foreign exchange reserves and to denominate other assets. But reserve currencies, unlike diamonds, aren’t necessarily forever, and that affects their issuers’ capacity to manage their public debt.