The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and that 39,037,964 doses had been administered as of Saturday morning. Read More
LONDON -- Britain plans to tax retailers and tech companies whose profits have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sunday Times reported, citing leaked emails. Read More
LONDON -- Britain plans to tax retailers and tech companies whose profits have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sunday Times reported, citing leaked emails. Read More
LONDON -- The Bank of England could shy away from buying the bonds of fossil fuel companies as it attempts to make its balance sheet greener, Governor Andrew Bailey said in an interview published by the Observer newspaper on Saturday. Read More
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Saturday its vaccine developed with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19, based on early data from a trial. Read More
Though bond yields will harden, the central bank has done well to give banks some more time to fix their bond portfolio
While it is a mixed bag of proposals from a tax perspective, directionally, it seems to be a good Budget—one that is aimed at pump-priming the economy, ramping up government expenditure for stimulating growth, and bringing the economy back to pre-Covid levels
Sitharaman has faced down the critics with performance. Breaking from the conventional past is very courageous—and effective in achieving India’s destiny
Although India has been able to vaccinate only 45% of the total healthcare workforce for now—the health ministry in its weekly press briefing detailed that of the 96 lakh healthcare workers, a little over 45 lakh have been vaccinated—it is still the fastest to reach
SBI's 3QFY21 profit of Rs52bn (-7% YoY) was ahead of estimates, led by lower credit costs.