Five times India and US disagreed on trade, but eventually found a way forward

If there is one consistent feature of India-US trade relations over the past three decades, it is that major agreements rarely emerge from a single round of negotiations. (AI image) By Shishir Priyadarshi, President, Chintan Research Foundation (CRF) & a former Director, WTOThe trade discussions between US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce Minister Piyush…

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Forex measures yield results! FPIs buy record $4.2 billion Indian government bonds in June; reserves may get a boost

Market participants said the tax relief has also strengthened expectations that Indian government bonds could find a place in Bloomberg’s Global Aggregate Index. (AI image) The government and RBI’s steps to attract capital inflows seems to be yielding results with foreign investors pouring in a record Rs 39,640 crore, or around $4.2 billion, in Indian…

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Scotch and gin get cheaper: India-UK trade deal kicks in July

India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Double Contribution Convention (DCC) will come into effect on July 15, 2026,. The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Double Contribution Convention (DCC) will come into effect on July 15, 2026, with Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal describing the agreement as India’s…

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Bigger play for corporates in debt & money markets

Mumbai: RBI has proposed sweeping changes to deepen debt markets, allowing corporate bodies to lend in the term money segment – long dominated by banks and primary dealers – while widening their access to govt securities market. It has also introduced total return swaps in credit derivatives, which transfer a bond’s entire return to the…

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US won’t abruptly deny AI access to India: Govt

NEW DELHI: The US has assured India that access to critical artificial intelligence technologies will not become a challenge for trusted partners, IT secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday after discussions with US officials on the future of AI collaboration.The discussions come weeks after the US commerce department directed AI firm Anthropic to restrict foreign…

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From Amazon, ABB to Google, AirTrunk & more: Global giants commit billions of dollars to India

The trend sends a signal that global corporations increasingly view India as a major long-term growth market. (AI image) Global majors are lining up billions of dollars worth investment in India despite the global economic uncertainty around war and trade policies. Recent announcements by tech giants and other global companies indicate the rising importance of…

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SK Hynix overtakes Samsung: How a 14-year AI chip bet made it South Korea’s most valuable listed company

Fourteen years after a takeover that critics dismissed as a costly gamble, SK Hynix has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, overtaking Samsung Electronics to briefly become South Korea’s most valuable listed company, according to a Reuters report.The turnaround was driven by an early bet on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, a…

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