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‘What our plan says is, ‘let’s keep the economy going, let’s see more job creation’ – that’s a really good thing for the economy,’ White House economic adviser Brian Deese said on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ Reuters April 04, 2021 / 07:40 PM IST President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser said on Sunday that the goal […]

Copper prices rose marginally to Rs 669.25 per kg on April 1 as participants reduced their positions as seen by the open interest. The base metal closed in the positive territory after a gap down open tracking positive global cues. It ended the week with a modest loss of Rs 0.20 or 0.03 percent on […]

The BSE Sensex rallied 1,021.33 points, or 2.08 percent, to 50,029.83, and the Nifty50 climbed 360.05 points, or 2.48 percent, to 14,867.35, while the broader markets outpaced frontline indices. The BSE Midcap index was up 2.73 percent and the Smallcap index gained 3.91 percent. The market clocked more than 2 percent gains in a truncated […]

International supply chains were thrown into disarray when the 400-metre-long (430-yard) Ever Given ran aground in the vital trade artery on March 23, with specialist rescue teams taking almost a week to free her after extensive dredging and repeated tugging operations. Reuters April 03, 2021 / 04:07 PM IST Reuters The last ships stranded by […]

The ministry is criticised for over regulation and the new process seeks to involve all stakeholders such as academicians, industry chambers, private educators, regulators and universities, for what can be done to ease compliances in the academic and administrative spaces (Image: Pixabay) The Centre is looking to improve on the counts of ease of doing […]

Silver Silver prices edged higher to settle at Rs 65,040 per kg on April 1 as participants increased their long positions as seen by the open interest. The precious metal rose tracking gains in gold and industrial metal to end at day’s high. It ended the week with a gain of Rs 284 or 0.44 […]

The company said the issue was industry-wide and it would look for solutions, without specifying what these might be. Reuters April 03, 2021 / 07:16 PM IST Amazon.com Inc has apologized to U.S. Representative Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an “own goal” in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were sometimes forced […]

If you want your bottle of laundry detergent or shipment of toilet paper, Amazon can get it to your doorstep the next day. But if you want to know how workers at an Amazon warehouse voted on whether or not to unionize, you’re going to have to wait. The final day for the nearly 6,000 […]

During the week, LinkedIn will provide employees who may feel isolated the option of taking part in daily activities such as volunteering for worthy causes through ‘random acts of kindness,’ according to the company. AFP April 03, 2021 / 10:11 PM IST Professional social network LinkedIn is giving nearly all of its 15,900 full-time workers […]

Crude palm oil futures rose to settle at Rs 1,094 per 10 kg on April 1 as participants trimmed their position as seen by the open interest. Malaysian palm oil futures marginally gained 0.05 percent to settle at 3,739 Ringgits on Bursa Malaysia Bhd. It ended the week with a loss of Rs 37.6 or […]

The US economy created the most jobs in seven months in March as more Americans got vaccinated and the government doled out additional pandemic relief money, marking the start of what could be the strongest economic performance this year in nearly four decades. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday also showed job […]

Allegations were that the IATA was unfairly determining cargo agents’ commissions and the rules of its Cargo Accounts Settlement Systems (CASS) were anti-competitive. Representative Image The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has discontinued a 9-year-old case against the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as it did not find violations of its norms. The investigation began […]

FILE – In this Wednesday, March 10, 2021 file photo, a mobile phone user turns on the Twitter application on his smartphone in Moscow, Russia. A court in Moscow on Friday April 2, 2021, fined Twitter for not taking down calls encouraging minors to take part in unauthorized rallies, the latest in a series of […]

Working_woman When 34-year-old Shivani Bose was being interviewed for a VP – marketing (South Asia) role at a financial services firm two months ago, she was expecting a standard set of questions about the industry and her skills. Instead, the HR manager primarily asked Bose about her marital status, plans to have children, how she […]

Natural gas futures on April 1 edged higher to settle at Rs 194.10 per mmBtu  as participants increased their long positions as seen by the open interest. It has risen by Rs 8.3 or 4.47 percent during the current week on the MCX. The energy commodity has been trading higher than 5, 20 and 200 days’ […]

Source: Reuters When India’s government last month asked refiners to speed up diversification and reduce dependence on the Middle East – days after OPEC+ said it would maintain production cuts – it sent a message about its clout and foreshadowed changes to the world’s energy maps. It was a move that had been in the […]

The closely watched employment report marked a painful anniversary for the labor market. Reuters April 02, 2021 / 06:58 PM IST US employers hired more workers than expected in March, spurred by increased vaccinations and more pandemic relief money from the government, cementing expectations that an economic boom was underway. Nonfarm payrolls surged by 916,000 […]