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OSLO (Reuters) — Two groups of investors, including U.S. private equity group Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO), are bidding for Scandinavian airline SAS, Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.

Investing.com — Crude prices fell on the last trading day of September on growing uneasiness over how the world might cope in the coming months with exploding energy costs, even as the U.S. economy and inflation appeared to have escaped the worst of such impact right away. Those long oil also won big on the month and quarter, helped largely by chokes on Saudi and Russian supply.

Mumbai: The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) stock witnessed significant volatility on Friday after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) directed it to postpone the planned migration to a new trading platform on 3 October, in response to a petition filed by the Chennai Financial Markets and Accountability (CFMA) before the Madras high court. MCX said in an exchange filing that it had received a Sebi-forwarded letter on 27 September from CFMA regarding its migration to the new commodity derivative platform (CDP).

While student loan debt is a concern for Americans of all ages, for those approaching retirement still burdened with repayments from their younger years is particularly worrying.

Canada’s gross domestic product was flat for July, matching Statistics Canada’s early estimate but falling short of analysts’ expectations of 0.1 per cent growth.

International Monetary Fund was 58.9% in the second quarter, unchanged from that of the first three months of the year, IMF data showed on Friday. Claims in U.S. dollar rose 0.8% to $6.576 trillion in the second quarter, but was actually down 1% from a year earlier. The euro's share edged up slightly to 19.9% in second quarter, from 19.8% the previous three months.

The US dollar index, after reaching a peak of 106.84 during its 11-week bullish streak, now faces the risk of ending this streak by potentially falling as low as 105.5.

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small savings schemes for the October-December 2023 quarter. The interest rates of certain small savings schemes or post office schemes for the quarter ending December 31, 2023 have been increased by the government. The interest rates of all schemes expect the recurring deposit rate have been kept unchanged. The finance ministry made this announcement via a circular issued on September 30, 2023. (One percentage point is equivalent to 100 basis points.) The interest rate of the 5-year post office recurring deposit (RD) has been hiked by 0.2% and will now earn 6.7%. The interest rate on the Public Provident Fund (PPF) has yet again been kept unchanged at 7.1 per cent. Here is a look at the interest rates on various small savings schemes for the third quarter of FY 2023-24.

Home loan borrowing costs climbed again this week, pushing the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate to its highest level in nearly 23 years, another blow to prospective homebuyers facing an increasingly less affordable housing market

There's a shakeup at the top of Allegiant Travel, the parent company of the Allegiant budget airline

The Biden administration is releasing a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs

The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the border between California and Oregon

GENEVA (Reuters) -Global health aid agency Unitaid has written to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)'s (J&J) CEO Joaquin Duato, urging «immediate action» to expand access to the company's tuberculosis drug bedaquiline, which is protected by patents hindering generic alternatives.

Benchmark NSE Nifty closed 114.75 points up at 19638.3 amid buying in frontline bluechip counters. However, stocks such as Navin Fluorine, CMM Infraprojects, FutureLifestyleFash, Debock Sales & Mktg and Dangee Dums, touched their fresh 52-week lows.

On the BSE, Shreyas Ship(down 18.28 per cent), Ranjeet Mechatronics(down 14.57 per cent), Navin Fluorine(down 13.66 per cent), Dipna Pharmachem(down 10.00 per cent) and Shoora Designs(down 9.99 per cent) stood among the top losers in today's trade. In the Nifty pack, 39 stocks closed in the green, while 11 stocks ended in the red.

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Investing.com-- Gold prices moved little in Asian trade on Friday, hovering near a seven-month low hit earlier this week as markets awaited key U.S. inflation data, while copper prices rose amid bets that a week-long Chinese holiday will help perk up economic growth. 

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Investing.com — “When push comes to shove” — the phrase seems to be making itself evident with the oil market, where the sharpest correction in nearly two months occurred on Thursday on overbought crude futures that have risen more than 30% since the end of May.