By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia named Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour as its new central bank governor on Friday, appointing a long-serving official at the helm at a time of a slowing economy and persistent inflation. Abdul Rasheed, a career central banker who joined Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in 1988, will take …
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By Bhakti Tambe MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s IIFL Finance is keen to raise more funds through the bond market with the recent softening in capital market rates, a senior company official said on Friday. “We would like to increase the share of domestic bonds in our portfolio. It will depend on pricing, and whether we …
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By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) – Inflows into Indian equity mutual funds halved sequentially to 32.4 billion rupees in May, the lowest since November 2022, data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) showed on Friday. Equity mutual fund inflows had fallen to a five-month low of 64.80 billion rupees in April. The …
By Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co’s Hotstar will offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices, a move that follows rival JioCinema’s recent success in garnering millions of viewers with a similar strategy in the cricket-crazy nation. Hotstar said on Friday it would offer the Asia …
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(Reuters) – Here are a few facts about Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour, named by Malaysia’s central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), on Friday as its new governor. The term is for five years and he starts work on July 1. – Abdul Rasheed joined the central bank in 1988, starting in its bank regulation department. – …
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BRUSELAS, 9 jun (Reuters) – El crimen organizado podría enfrentarse a una normativa europea más estricta en materia de beneficios ilícitos, incluidos los obtenidos mediante el incumplimiento de sanciones, ya que los Estados miembros pretenden armonizar las leyes pertinentes en virtud de un proyecto de directiva acordado el viernes. La nueva norma, una vez aprobada …
LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has lost his latest attempt to fight extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges, though he will renew his appeal next week. Assange, 51, is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 charges relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast troves of confidential …
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9 jun (Reuters) – Ocho personas han muerto en territorio ruso y más de 5.800 han sido evacuadas de sus hogares como consecuencia del derrumbe el martes de la enorme presa de Kajovka, en el sur de Ucrania, dijo el viernes un alto cargo designado por Rusia. Vladimir Saldo, jefe designado por Rusia de la …
Por Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBURGO, 9 jun (Reuters) – UBS criticó el viernes a los reguladores antimonopolio de la Unión Europea por la forma en que calcularon su multa de 172,4 millones de euros (186 millones de dólares) por la formación de un cártel, diciendo que la cifra arbitraria se basa en supuestos inexactos que …
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(Reuters) -A Russian citizen was killed in a shark attack near a beach at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Russia’s Consulate General in the city and two Egyptian security sources said on Thursday. Egypt’s Environment Ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook that a tiger shark was responsible for the death of …
