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A garment worker sorts tailored shirts and denim jeans at an apparel manufacturing unit in Bengaluru on August 25, 2025. Idrees Mohammed | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Indian government’s move on Wednesday to formally reduce the goods and services tax on a variety of items is expected to spur consumption and ease the impact of U.S. tariffs.The tax cuts, first mooted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August on the country’s Independence Day, and an earlier round of income tax cuts in April, should boost consumer demand and corporate profits in the near and medium-term, Citi Research said in…

[WASHINGTON, DC] Elected political leaders often express frustration with monetary policymakers. If only the central bank would lower interest rates, they reckon, businesses and households could borrow more easily for long-term purposes, such as building factories and buying homes, boosting the economy and, typically, incumbents’ re-election chances. If the central bank, concerned about inflation, keeps interest rates higher, some politicians try to pressure the officials into lowering interest rates by all possible means, from browbeating to changing the leadership.This is the current situation in the US, where President Donald Trump is determined to subordinate the Federal Reserve to his will.At…

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. A cloud application represents an app that works via remote, distant servers – aka cloud servers. Users only need a browser on their mobile phone or desktop, as the APIs ensure the interaction between servers and user devices. Such infrastructure allows you to offer users swifter responses, scale up or down based on the user number, and strengthen data security. And probably the best part…

New York Mets star outfielder Juan Soto announced on Wednesday that he’ll play for the Dominican Republic in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, which will air exclusively on FOX networks.It will be the second time that Soto plays in the World Baseball Classic, with the Dominican Republic going 2-2 and failing to advance out of Pool D in the 2023 tournament. However, Soto was one of the team’s bright spots, hitting two home runs and going 6 for 15.Japan beat the United States in the championship game to win the 2023 World Baseball Classic.The Mets, of course, have a bad…

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer chairs a roundtable with UK business leaders in Downing Street in London on April 3, 2025. Ben Stansall | Via ReutersWhile not alone in experiencing bond market volatility this week — with global yields rising among major economies as investors worry about the inflation trajectory, yawning budget deficits and growing debt piles — confidence in the U.K. has been dented by concerns over the country’s particulars.Doubts have mounted over Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ ability to balance the budget and bring down the national deficit, which hit 4.8% in 2024, as well as the country’s debt pile…

Published Thu, Sep 4, 2025 · 06:30 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian automaker Proton launched its first electric vehicle assembly plant on Thursday (Sep 4), as the South-east Asian nation looks to boost development of its EV industry.The facility, located in western Perak state’s Automotive High-Tech Valley – Malaysia’s main automaking hub – will have initial annual capacity to produce 20,000 cars. But that could be scaled up to 45,000 units per annum, Proton said in a statement.The first model to roll off the assembly line will be the e.MAS 7, Proton’s first EV, followed by its entry-level option, the e.MAS 5,…

GPS interference affecting aviation over the Baltic Sea region has risen sharply since 2023 and now occurs almost daily, Sweden’s Transport Agency said on Thursday, pointing the finger at Russia. The number of interference incidents with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GPS, in Swedish airspace has risen from 55 in 2023 to 733 this year as of August 18, according to new data presented by the Transport Agency. “We have done analyses over a longer period and collected data. We can conclude that the interference is originating from Russian territory,” Andreas Holmgren, in charge of aviation issues at…

The head of Britain’s main banking lobby group has warned the chancellor against a budget raid on the industry, arguing that it would undermine her aim of delivering sustainable economic growth.In a letter to Rachel Reeves seen by Sky News, David Postings, the chief executive of UK Finance, said renewed speculation about increases to banks’ tax burden risked undermining their international competitiveness. Mr Postings’ letter was sent earlier this week, just days after shares in the largest UK banks – including Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group – slid amid fears of a renewed tax raid on the sector.”Both…

[LONDON] British lender Lloyds Banking Group will put about 3,000 people deemed among the bottom 5 per cent of performers at risk of dismissal, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Sep 4), citing unidentified sources.The British bank intends to overhaul how it manages the performance of its 63,000 employees, with the bank’s lowest performers set to be told their work must improve or they face the axe, the newspaper said.A Lloyds spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement that it was “transforming” its business and “striving to embed a high-performance culture”.“In line with wider industry practice, we continuously look for…

AI was 2024’s hot topic, so how is it evolving? What are we seeing in AI today, and what do we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? We asked Andrew Brust, Chester Conforte, Chris Ray, Dana Hernandez, Howard Holton, Ivan McPhee, Seth Byrnes, Whit Walters, and William McKnight to weigh in.  First off, what’s still hot? Where are AI use cases seeing success? Chester: I see people leveraging AI beyond experimentation. People have had the opportunity to experiment, and now we’re getting to a point where true, vertical-specific use cases are being developed. I’ve been tracking healthcare closely…