Bloomberg India’s central bank has not fallen behind the curve, having maintained an easy monetary policy stance even as other economies across the world have started tightening, a top official said. “India held its ground and is among a few countries that have retained an accommodative monetary policy, despite some views that we have fallen behind the curve,” Reserve …

  Bloomberg Global stocks extended a rally as Federal Reserve officials cautioned against disruptive policy tightening and US companies signaled another strong earnings season. US index futures swung from gains to losses in line with volatile moves seen over the past several days. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 Index were little changed, while those on the S&P 500 Index were …

  Bloomberg India’s benchmark bond yields surged to the highest in two and a half years after the government unveiled plans to issue record amount of bonds in the next financial year. The selloff was exacerbated as the annual budget announcement lacked the widely expected measures to facilitate inclusion of the nation’s debt into global bond indexes. Elevated bond sales …

  Bloomberg Oil markets opened the week higher and were heading for the biggest gain in at least 30 years as robust demand outpaced fresh supply. The global crude benchmark rises 1.3%, paring earlier gains, but remains on track for a 17% gain this month. West Texas Intermediate futures traded above $87 a barrel. Traders were greeted on Monday with …

  Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s ambitious effort to pivot his conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. toward green energy could transform India into a clean hydrogen juggernaut. Ambani, Asia’s richest man, announced plans earlier this month to invest $75 billion in renewables infrastructure including generation plants, solar panels and electrolysers. There is growing speculation that the strategy entails transforming all of that …

  Bloomberg Global demand for natural gas will increase only marginally this year as declining use in Europe stifles a post-pandemic recovery in consumption of the fuel. Demand growth will slow to 0.9% after a 4.7% advance last year, the International Energy Agency said in its quarterly gas report. While use is expected to increase in Asia and North America, …

  Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will announce a package of measures to alleviate the impact of rising energy costs “in due course,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, as his government grapples with a growing squeeze on the cost of living. Johnson is coming under increasing pressure from opposition parties and members of his own …

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is considering hiring options to combat an exodus of pilots from Hong Kong, senior executives said at a town hall, according to a person who attended the meeting. The carrier’s top management, including chief operations and service delivery officer Greg Hughes, told staff that an initial spike in pilot resignations last November had remained …

  Bloomberg Jazeera Airways’s board approved a deal to purchase of 28 narrow-body planes from Airbus SE as the Kuwaiti carrier expands its network to include long-haul routes. The value of the agreement is $3.4 billion and comprises 20 A320neos and eight A321neos, according to a statement. The companies had signed the pact at the Dubai Airshow in November. Jazeera, …

  Bloomberg Airbus SE said it will make a flying-taxi model available for sale only when the technology is mature, despite rival designs racking up hundreds of conditional orders at a similar stage of development. The CityAirbus NextGen, unveiled last September following a revamp to an earlier blueprint, will fly by the end of next year once remaining technical challenges …