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Qatar Airways CEO expects Trump’s travel ban to be relaxed

  SYDNEY / Reuters Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker on Tuesday said he expected US President Donald Trump would eventually relax a travel ban targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries, New Zealand media reported. The travel ban, Trump’s most controversial act since taking office last month, was halted temporarily on Friday following a ruling by a US judge, but ...

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Detsky Mir aims to prove toys R Russia with $355mn IPO

  Bloomberg Anna Krutevich looks over the displays of diapers, Hot Wheels and baby food at Detsky Mir, a children’s emporium in Moscow’s Aviapark shopping mall, then pulls juice and milk from a shelf. Though the past two years have been tough as Russia has slogged through a recession, the jewelry marketing manager still spends 15 percent of her salary ...

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RBI signals end to easing cycle, changes policy stance

  Bloomberg India’s central bank unexpectedly left borrowing costs unchanged for a second straight meeting and signaled that its interest-rate easing cycle is coming to an end. The benchmark repurchase rate was left at a six-year low of 6.25 percent, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement in Mumbai on Wednesday. The move was predicted by just five ...

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