Home » Business

Business - Page 2290

A ban on gold imports would also lead to large-scale unemployment as this sector has a huge workforce, with most of them on contract.

Gold recovers from 10-months low

Spot gold was up 0.2 per cent at $1,172.92 an ounce.

6 Dec 2016 8:00 AM IST

The market seems unwilling to push oil towards $50 a barrel ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow.

Oil retreats on doubts OPEC cuts can ease glut

Brent crude settled at $54.94 a barrel, up 48 cents - or 0.88 per cent - before retreating to $54.22 a barrel.

6 Dec 2016 7:49 AM IST

Spot gold fell by as much as 1.6 per cent to its lowest since early February at $1,157 an ounce.

Asian stocks rise on back of Wall Street; gold slips

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.4 per cent in early trade.

6 Dec 2016 7:40 AM IST

Service providers who participated in the PMI survey said that the dip was due to shortage of cash and the activity is expected to rise again over the next 12-months.

Services PMI sees sharp contraction in November

The Nikkei India services businesses activity index fell from 54.5 to 46.7 in November, its sharpest reduction in three...

6 Dec 2016 2:11 AM IST

Indians prefer Dubai because of lower interest rates, lucrative rental yield ranging from 7-12% annually, security, tax-free returns on investments of around 20%, 50% leverage etc. (Photo: AP)

Dubai: India's favourite realty pick

In 2016 till date the amount of investors reached 3,656 who have together spent 7.27 billion Dirhams.

6 Dec 2016 2:11 AM IST

Banks give cold shoulder to Rupay, an affordable Indian alternative to Visa and MasterCard.

Banks ignore RuPay, hit PM's digital plan

Issue foreign cards by default; traders stick to cash.

6 Dec 2016 2:10 AM IST

Ousted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry

Mistry charges Tata to be insecure about legacy

Mistry alleged that Tata refused to reply as to why he was removed as Chairman of Tata Sons in October.

5 Dec 2016 8:52 PM IST

Ousted Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry

Tata Group not one man's fiefdom: Cyrus Mistry

Mistry while referring to Ratan Tata said that it is unethical that one man enjoyed all decision-making at the empire.

5 Dec 2016 5:58 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Govt departments asked to make e-payments

Finance ministry has lowered threshold for making such payments from Rs 10,000 to Rs 5,000.

5 Dec 2016 5:09 PM IST

Bombay Stock Exchange

Sensex breaks falling spree, closes over 118 points

Shares of auto and metal sectors did much of the rescue job for the market benchmark.

5 Dec 2016 4:40 PM IST

Chairman and founder of Adani group Gautam Adani

Breakthrough for Adani in $16 bn Aus coal project

The company won the approval for part of a rail link to service the planned mine.

5 Dec 2016 3:59 PM IST

The digital mode of payment is currently available at more than 97 per cent of the 800 Mother Dairy booths and 324 Safal booths across the city.

Mother Dairy starts accepting digital payment

Company has witnessed a three-fold rise in usage of this mode of transaction in the last few weeks.

5 Dec 2016 3:20 PM IST