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Rio Tinto has loaned $US100 million ($156.9 million) to the Chinese and Singaporean companies that will build railways and ports for Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project, in a major show of faith in its consortium partners, rival miners and the grand plan to build an African iron ore industry.

RBI) have rarely been this comfortable when developed nations' financial markets were in turmoil. Soaring yields, rising defaults, wobbly financial markets and troubled geopolitics are all around, but few ripples are seen here. When the Federal Reserve chairman and the European Central Bank president are still guiding for raising interest rates, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, when he reveals the status quo monetary policy on Thursday, can step aside while providing the central bank's customary cautionary footnote on remaining vigilant. At the heart of monetary policy making is prices and the character of that is diverging between developed markets and the emerging markets, especially India, which tracks a consumer price index loaded with food articles. Prices are set to rise more than the target for some more quarters, but the solace is that the RBI's target of 4% is less than 200 basis points away.

PwC Australia chief executive Kevin Burrowes will appear at the Senate inquiry into consulting next Thursday, the first time anyone from the firm has testified at the federal level since the extent of its tax leaks scandal became public in May.

By David Shepardson

Burnt, a layer-2 scaling solution backed by Animoca and Multicoin, has announced the launch of Xion, a layer-1 blockchain protocol. 

US President Joe Biden has said that he does not believe that border walls work. The Federal Register put a notice on Wednesday announcing that construction of the wall will be paid for using already appropriated funds earmarked specifically for physical border barriers.

Investing.com — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday sued Elon Musk to force him to provide testimony in the agency's probe into his purchase of Twitter last year. 

(Reuters) -Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, according to a Thursday court filing in which the agency sought to compel Musk to testify.

A trade association mostly made up of certified financial planners launched an initiative Thursday to add members from Ameriprise Financial, an outreach effort that has a fiduciary advocate questioning how the credential’s advice standard squares with a dually registered firm.

Revolutionary Bitcoin cloud-mining project Bitcoin Minetrix has just smashed through its $500,000 presale milestone with a use case that has the crypto world’s top influencers salivating.

The architect of legislation to give the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to cover repairs at American Family Field is defending the proposal to fellow lawmakers

Private investment firm Realside Financial Group has picked up Boab Capital Group’s gun dealmaker Miki Cvijetic to join its structured private credit business.

Finally, after a protracted recapitalisation process, there’s movement at Accolade Wines, the country’s second-largest wine group behind Treasury Wine Estates.

Heavyweight proxy advisers have given the green light for a takeover of lithium explorer Essential Metals, as activity in the sector heats up with Gina Rinehart building a significant stake in Liontown Resources.

Bangladesh has received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow

Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has begun releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea after the first round of discharges ended smoothly

Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered an investigation into the competitiveness of the key industry

The German government says developed countries have pledged $9.3 billion to help poor nations tackle climate change

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin, a move that conservationists and tribes call a potential breakthrough

An accountant who prepared Donald Trump’s financial statements is back on the witness stand for a fourth day in the New York civil trial examining whether the former president exaggerated his wealth

Apple has released an update to the iOS 17 system that powers the iPhone 15 lineup to prevent the devices from becoming uncomfortably hot