India’s top court says it may halt farm laws

Bloomberg India’s Supreme Court has said it proposes to put three controversial farm laws on hold, a move that could possibly end the stalemate between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration and tens of thousands of farmers protesting for nearly three months now. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde said on Monday that a final ...

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Brexit drags UK below US in business location ranking

Bloomberg Britain is significantly less attractive as an international business location because of Brexit but remains well positioned compared with other major economies, according to a German study. The UK slipped behind the US to second place in the latest ranking published by Germany’s Foundation for Family Businesses, though it remains ahead of the rest of its Group of Seven ...

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Italy government to seek parliament nod for larger deficit

Bloomberg Italy’s government will ask parliament to approve another increase in the deficit later this month to pay for vaccines, healthcare, and support for companies and workers, according to Finance Minister Roberto Gualtieri. The request will be for 24 billion euros ($29 billion), Gualtieri said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper. That’s equivalent to 1.5% of Italy’s ...

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German finance minister sees economic recovery

Bloomberg German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said a slight economic recovery is on the horizon thanks to robust state aid preventing much of the potential fallout of the pandemic, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. He credited Germany’s fiscal stimulus and the Berlin government’s shift on crisis aid at the EU level with saving jobs, the German newswire quoted Scholz as telling a ...

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Apple, Amazon remove Parler after use in US Capitol riots

Bloomberg Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are removing Parler from their services, part of a growing backlash after the social media network was among those used to organise last week’s riots at the Capitol. Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media company. They joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which removed ...

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Twitter shares fall 6% following Trump ban

Bloomberg Twitter Inc. shares fall 6.1% in pre-market trading after the social media platform permanently banned outgoing President Donald Trump. The San Francisco-based company confirmed its decision in a blog post, saying Trump’s tweets breached policies by risking incitement to violence. It cited Trump’s posts referring to riots in the US capital last week. Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling said the ...

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Young American adults top $10trn in assets for first time

Bloomberg Despite the pandemic-induced recession of 2020, America’s young adults doubled their assets over the past four years, new data from the Federal Reserve show. This marks the first time the assets for so-called millennials have exceeded $10 trillion. But, this generation, the oldest of whom turn 40 this year, has a massive debt burden as well, according to the ...

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China telcos rally as mainland funds buy record HK stocks

Bloomberg Having slumped under the weight of a US executive order, China’s three major telecommunications companies are on the rebound in Hong Kong — supported by a record inflow of mainland cash. Mainland traders bought a record HK$19.5 billion ($2.5 billion) of Hong Kong stocks through trading links on Monday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. China Mobile Ltd. led ...

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India stocks head for new highs on vaccine, earnings prospects

Bloomberg India stocks advanced towards new peaks as sentiment was boosted by a positive start to the quarterly earnings season and the commencement of vaccinations in the nation this week. The S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.5% to 49,012.73 as of 10:21 am in Mumbai, while the NSE Nifty 50 Index advanced 0.4%. Both gauges, heading toward fresh record highs, were ...

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Dollar advances; US futures, Asia stocks dip

Bloomberg The dollar rises on Monday and most Asian stocks slipped along with US equity futures as traders weighed the implications of higher Treasury yields amid President-elect Joe Biden’s push for huge fiscal aid. The dollar climbed a third day against major peers. A gauge of Asia-Pacific shares dipped, South Korea erased an advance of as much as 3.6%. S&P ...

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