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The report by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski into the PwC leaks scandal identified a “shadow culture”, which was one consequence of its drive to be the biggest of the big four with the best-paid partners. Here are some key quotes from the report released on Wednesday.

Also read: Chinese President Xi Jinping's housing crisis efforts jeopardized as Evergrande face trouble “The real estate sector will continue to be under mounting pressure" despite recent government efforts to support property, said analysts at Poseidon Partner, a Hong Kong-based investment firm. “We expect to see players who racked up debt in the past to continue to suffer." The economist survey coincides with new research from Bloomberg Economics that suggests the “around 5%" growth goal is still possible, though not a sure bet. They estimate the probability of an undershoot at 18%.

By Leika Kihara

S Jaishankar has said efforts are on in Manipur by the state and the central governments to find a way by which a sense of normalcy returns and there is adequate law-and-order enforcement. "...I think one part of the problem in Manipur has been the destabilising impact of migrants who have come," he said Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations in response to a question on the situation in the northeastern state in India. «But there are also tensions which obviously have a long history which precede that. And today, I think the effort is on the part of the state government and the Union government to find a way by which a sense of normalcy returns, that arms which were seized during that period are recovered, that there is an adequate law-and-order enforcement out there so that incidents of violence don't happen,» the minister said. Earlier this month, a group of United Nations experts said they are «appalled» by reports and images of violence in Manipur targeting women and girls, and urged the Indian government to take robust action to investigate the incidents and hold the perpetrators to account. The experts raised an alarm on reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in Manipur, including acts of alleged sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, home destruction, forced displacement, torture and ill-treatment.

Mukesh Ambani’s sprawling retail empire. ADIA is seeking to invest $600 million into the organized retailing business of Asia's richest person, people aware of the developments told ET, at valuations that significantly exceed those during an earlier concluded round three years ago. ADIA is already an investor in Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), having bought a 1.2% stake for Rs 5,512.50 crore ($751 million) in October 2020, when the company raised Rs Rs 47,265 crore by selling 10.09% stake to a clutch of bulge-bracket investors that included Saudi PIF, Mubadala, GIC of Singapore, Silverlake, TPG and GA. From the previous bunch of investors, KKR has already made a follow-on investment of Rs 2,069.50 crore at a pre-money equity value of Rs 8.361 lakh crore ($100 billion), making RRVL among the top four companies by implied market capitalization in the country. Thus far, Qatar's $1-billion infusion has been the only fresh investment in the current round of fund raise. The current valuation is almost at a 60% premium to the last financing round three years ago, but is much lower than what most equity analysts perceive the value of the privately held retail business to be.

borrow ₹6.55 lakh crore from the market through dated securities in the second half of this financial year, staying with the budget estimate and indicating a comfortable fiscal situation for now. In the first half of 2023-24, the government announced ₹8.88 lakh crore market borrowing out of the full-year target of ₹15.43 lakh crore. The second half market borrowing will include a new 50-year security for the first time, the finance ministry said in a statement.

The time-consuming and expensive process of drafting a commercial contract for construction projects has been a sore point for both law firms and their clients for decades.

UBS managing director and senior portfolio manager Jason Katz discusses the impact of the UAW strike on the Federal Reserve and the auto industry, as well as high oil prices.

Target said it's closing nine stores in four states, including one in East Harlem, New York and three in San Francisco, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers

(Reuters) — Target said on Tuesday it would close nine stores across four U.S. states, including California, citing that theft and organized retail crime was threatening the security of the retailer's employees and customers.

Electric vehicles are slowly making headway in Australia, with about a sixth of all new vehicles sold in Australia being either full battery electric or a hybrid version.

Armitage Associates-backed IT services group Tecala will pay about $10 million to purchase automation consulting services company rapidMATION.

Niti Aayog will soon undertake an evaluation of India's biggest subsidy schemes, the National Food Security Act and LPG subsidy, to rationalise expenditure, prevent leakages, and ensure benefits are reaching eligible people. Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), which is attached to Niti Aayog, has invited proposals for a central coordinating agency for evaluation of the two schemes, which together cost the exchequer nearly ₹4 lakh crore a year.

DGFT) has opened the window for registration of companies seeking to import IT hardware such as laptops and tablets, with a one-week target for approval of an application. As per officials aware of the details, companies need to provide value and volume details around import/export of hardware along with domestic manufacturing for the past three years. The firms also need to disclose the country of origin for imports. «The format for registration has been shared and companies can revert if some things need to be fine-tuned.

NEW DELHI : Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has surged ahead in the rapidly expanding SUV (sport utility vehicle) segment, marking a turnaround after several quarters of market share loss due to declining small car sales and lack of new SUV launches, following its exit from the diesel-engine market in 2020. Maruti has made significant progress in realizing its 2023-24 target of 25% share in India’s SUV market, consistently increasing its share for three straight months, spanning July through September. In July and August, the company’s SUV market share exceeded 24.5%, and it expects a similar performance in September.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari thinks there's nearly a 50-50 chance that interest rates will need to move significantly higher to bring down inflation.

(Reuters) — Organized crime rings in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston are targeting retail inventories, causing more financial loss, according to a report by the National Retail Federation (NRF), a trade group representing U.S. retailers.

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Sruthi Shankar

JPMorgan's British retail bank Chase will ban crypto transactions made by customers from October 16 due to an increase in fraud and scams, the company said on Tuesday. «We've seen an increase in the number of crypto scams targeting UK consumers, so we have taken the decision to prevent the purchase of crypto assets on a Chase debit card or by transferring money to a crypto site from a Chase account,» a spokesperson for the bank said. Chase has become the latest lender in the UK to restrict customers' access to crypto amid long-running concerns over its use in online scams run by criminals. JPMorgan has attracted more than 1.6 million customers to its Chase retail bank since launching the mobile app-based service in Britain two years ago, and plans to roll out the consumer bank in other international markets over time.

NEW DELHI : The Centre will borrow ₹6.55 trillion for the second half of the ongoing financial year— or 42.45% of its gross market borrowing of ₹15.43 trillion for the full year—the government said, leaving its borrowing plans unchanged. The borrowing for FY24 will be done through dated securities, including ₹ 20,000 crore through issuance of sovereign green bonds, the finance ministry said in a statement Tuesday. While the government will stick to its borrowing plan for the year, it will issue 50-year securities for the first time, in response to a market demand for longer duration securities, the ministry added.

Delhi: The government on Tuesday set rabi foodgrains production target at 161.2 million tonnes (mt). The national target for total food grains production for the 2023-24 (July-June) crop year is 332 mt. As per the government’s third crop estimate, India’s foodgrain production in 2022-23 is pegged at 330.5 mt.