India has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates that will allow it to settle trade in rupees instead of dollars, boosting India’s efforts to cut transaction costs by eliminating dollar conversions. During a visit by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE on Saturday, the two countries also agreed to set up […]
Tesla built its first Cybertruck at the electric-vehicle marker’s plant in Austin, Texas, the company said in a tweet on Saturday, after two years of delays. Tesla founder Elon Musk introduced the pickup truck in a 2019 reveal where the vehicle’s designer cracked the vehicle’s supposedly unbreakable “armor glass” windows. The company has pushed back production […]
Oil prices extended their decline into a second session on Monday after China’s second-quarter growth came in weaker than expected, fuelling concern about demand in the world’s No. 2 oil consumer, while Libya resumed production on the weekend. Brent crude futures fell 91 cents, or 1.1%, to $78.96 a barrel by 0628 GMT, and U.S. […]
The United States is working with India to develop an investment platform to lower the cost of capital and increase private investment to fast-track India’s energy transition, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday. After a bi-lateral meeting with India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the sidelines of a G20 meeting, Yellen said the […]
AI startup Nomic has raised $17 million in a new funding round from investors led by Coatue, the companies told Reuters. The investment valued New York-based Nomic AI, a team of four at the time, at $100 million, showing continued interest from VCs to bet on small teams building popular AI products. Contrary Capital and […]
U.S. online sales during Amazon.com’s Prime Day shopping event rose 6.1% to $12.7 billion from last year, as inflation-hit Americans hunted for more bargains and discounts on the e-commerce platform, Adobe Analytics data on Thursday showed. Shoppers spent $6.3 billion on the second day of the shopping extravaganza. Deep discounts on products such as toys and appliances drew […]
Global finance chiefs will meet in India next week to discuss increasing loans to developing nations from multilateral institutions, reforming the international debt architecture and regulations on cryptocurrency, Indian officials said. The finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 (G20) nations will also discuss a multilateral agreement on taxing conglomerates with […]
Tesla is discussing an investment proposal with the Indian government to set up a factory with an annual capacity to produce about half a million electric vehicles, the Times of India reported on Thursday, citing government sources. The company, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is also looking at using India as an export base to ship […]
Southern Europe sweltered under a fierce heatwave on Thursday, with a warning that temperatures could hit record highs for the continent next week, raising fears about the impact on human health, crops and animals. Weather alerts were in place across Spain’s Canary Islands, Italy, Cyprus and Greece, with the Greek authorities expecting temperatures to reach […]
OPEC on Thursday raised its forecast for oil demand growth for 2023 and predicted only a slight slowdown in 2024 despite economic headwinds as China and India continue to drive the expansion in fuel use. In a monthly report, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said it expects world oil demand to rise […]
