Union Cooperatives Minister Amit Shah on Sunday called on cooperative giant Amul to take an initiative for the marketing, distribution and testing of organic / natural agricultural products in the country. Shah made a request to the Amul board in this regard, calling for the need to address the ill effects of fertilizer farming,...
Read MoreTODAY’S WORD is part of a series on current slang: big mad. Example: Mom was big mad that I didn’t clean my room. FRIDAY’S WORD was diamond hands. The phrase refers to the state of hanging on to a situation that carries extreme financial risk. Example: Grandma has invested in that stock for years,...
Read MoreThis photo shows the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) – Total assets held by the Bank of Japan hit a record 724.06 trillion yen ($ 6.3 trillion) in the six months leading up to September, supported by asset purchases and financial support in the context of the COVID-19...
Read MoreClimate activists have blocked Amazon distribution centers across the UK to highlight the company’s treatment of its workforce and what they say are its “destructive business practices for environment and unnecessary ”. Dozens of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists locked themselves in together and used bamboo structures in an attempt to disrupt the online retail...
Read MoreThe pension manager has also dropped active investment exposure in ASX pure-play oil and gas producers, including Santos and Papua New Guinea-based producer Oil Search. UniSuper cuts its exposure AustralianSuper’s decision to remove active investment from Woodside came before the oil and gas giant’s Scarborough announcement, and the fund declined to comment on the...
Read MoreFinancially weak banks should consider mergers in an attempt to ease the pressure on defaulting lending, according to Salman F Rahman, the prime minister’s adviser on private industry and investment. “There are systematic problems in our banking industry as borrowers are allowed to take short-term loans for long-term investments, resulting in a lot of...
Read MoreFrom forest fires to floods, from hurricanes to heat, the effects of climate change on our communities are well known and are expected to worsen. But as participants in the municipal debt market are starting to realize, there are no bond vigilantes to impose discipline on state and local government issuers. A new study...
Read MoreServices represent two-thirds of global GDP, but the associated trade costs are higher than those of goods. A group of WTO members have reached an agreement to reduce the bureaucracy that hinders trade in services. We outline five main ways this new agreement will remove unnecessary barriers to trade in services. Services account for...
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Read MoreInstitutions wishing to invest in new asset classes, such as cryptocurrencies, face many obstacles, including their size, the risk parameters set by their boards of directors, the history of performance and the potential stigma of being wrong. But public pension funds and other big investors, including insurance companies, are dabbling in crypto and new...
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