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By Tetsushi Kajimoto

Investing.com-- Oil prices were muted in Asian trade on Friday, but were set to snap a seven-week winning streak as fears of a Chinese economic slowdown and rising U.S. interest rates clouded the outlook for demand. 

India has been recognised as the «pharmacy of the world» and it is now time for India to become the leader in the manufacturing of affordable, innovative and quality medical devices, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday. Mandaviya, during his inaugural address at 'India MedTech Expo 2023', underlined that India is the fastest-growing medical devices market among the emerging markets.

Indian officials are considering a plan to reallocate as much as 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) from the budgets of various ministries to contain a surge in food and fuel costs without imperiling the federal deficit target, according to people familiar with the matter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take a decision in the coming weeks, which could include lowering taxes on local gasoline sales and easing import tariffs on cooking oil and wheat, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private.

By Gram Slattery

Generative AI will never be able to replace the intimate human relationships advisors have with clients. But it will make advisors’ lives a whole lot easier.

The West Australian government has been forced to push back plans to shut down coal-fired power generation after warnings about supply shortages and summer blackouts within the next two years.

UBS report released on Thursday. While the report noted that no single country can replicate China's success in manufacturing, it said India could benefit from supply chain shifts and reforms, which could also result in job creation. «Growth could rise to 6.25-6.75% YoY by 2030 under an optimistic scenario and 6.75-7.25% YoY under a blue-sky scenario, leading to job creation,» Tanvee Gupta Jain, chief India economist, UBS, said.

insurance sector, the focus is to make variable pay simpler and achievable. “We have recalibrated the key performance indicator to remove the organization metric from variable pay for our junior workforce . Their quarterly incentives now depend on their own performance as well as the department’s performance," said Santanu Banerjee, chief human resources officer at Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance.

Rajasthan News: In a viral video a woman was seen being dragged on a car bonnet in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh, following which the city police said a case has been registered. The news was shared by Live Hindustan, which said that the woman was dragged on the bonnet for around 500 metres. The report also said that further investigation is underway.

NEW DELHI : The Union government, which unveiled ₹1.18 trillion worth of programmes spanning mobility to digital sectors, plans to make additional such mega announcements during the festive season until the year-end, four people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The proposed announcements may include a ₹1 trillion mission mode project to modernize the railway signalling system, a ₹3 trillion Bharatmala Phase-2 programme to boost connectivity to infrastructure projects such as multi-modal logistics parks and ongoing expressways, a ₹5,000 crore incentive package to encourage the construction of vessels and ships to develop a blue economy, and a viability gap funding (VGF) scheme for coal gasification.

₹200," the executive, who declined to be named, said. That concierge service was the earliest version of Dunzo Digital Pvt. Ltd, now a popular quick commerce company, that almost became a unicorn, or a company with a valuation of over a billion dollars, last year.

By Steve Scherer

Edited excerpts: Do you think the ethanol target can be met? We have made significant progress on ethanol blending after the policy was changed from molasses to direct sugarcane, maize and rice. We have achieved about 11%. Achieving E20 target by 2025 is a challenge but look at in how many years have we come to 11% from 4-5%.

reality is that China is unlikely to be a counterbalance to a potential slowdown in developed economies this time, unlike during the 2008-09 global financial crisis. But despite a slowing China, geopolitical risks and adverse climate events are providing a floor for global food and energy prices. The third bear is India’s domestic consumption growth.

Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost $3.8 billion to them last year just in the U.S., according to the Federal Trade Commission

stagflation, a combination of economic stagnation with high inflation remains low in India despite a surge in prices, the Reserve Bank of India said in its August bulletin on Thursday. «Stagflation risk remains low for India with a probability of only 3% with easing of financial conditions, stability of the INR/USD exchange rate and steady domestic fuel prices,» a study conducted by the central bank showed. The uptick in June inflation mutated in July with the unprecedented shock to tomato prices spilling over to prices of other vegetables, said the RBI in its State of the Economy article. Earlier, on August 14, rising food prices sent consumer inflation soaring to a 15-month high of 7.44% in July compared with 4.87% in the previous month, breaching the upper tolerance band of RBI’s inflation target of 2-6% for the first time in FY24 and dashing any hopes of an early rate cut. High-frequency food price data for August so far shows prices of cereals and pulses continued to increase this month, according to the bulletin. Tomato prices, on average, registered a further increase, although more recent data indicates some pullback in prices, the RBI added.

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supply chain shift happening owing to the US-China trade war, deglobalization and pandemic disruptions, according to a UBS report. While the report released Thursday noted that no single country could replicate China’s success in manufacturing, it said that India could benefit from supply chain shifts and reforms, which could also result in job creation. “Growth could rise to 6.25-6.75% YoY by 2030 under an optimistic scenario and 6.75-7.25% YoY under a blue-sky scenario, leading to job creation,” Tanvi Gupta Jain, chief India economist, UBS, noted.

Citi analysts maintained a Neutral rating and $20 per share price target on Kohl’s (NYSE:KSS) Thursday, stating they expect the company to miss second-quarter EPS estimates.

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