NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Monsoon rains, vital for farm output in India's trillion-dollar economy, have hit the country's southern coast, the chief of the weather office said on Monday.
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The BSE Sensex should start shakily on Monday, after posting its biggest rise in 12 weeks last week, as euro zone debt problems come back into focus following a downgrade of Spain's credit rating.
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LONDON (Reuters) - France admitted on Sunday that keeping its top-notch credit rating would be "a stretch" without some tough budget decisions, following German hints that Berlin may resort to raising taxes to help bring down its deficit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After stocks wrapped up their worst month in more than a year, investors will face this week with caution as things are unlikely to get better until the Europeans force their debt crisis to an end game.
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VENICE, La. (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and the American public clamoured on Sunday for BP and the Obama administration to do more to save the U.S. Gulf Coast from an out-of-control oil spill that one congressman called an "environmental crime".
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Legendary investor Warren Buffett appears this week before a commission searching for the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, to provide his assessment on the role a much-maligned credit rating industry played.
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization members agree they must push on with difficult talks on a global trade deal, but November's U.S. mid-term elections mean they are unlikely to bear fruit before next year.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's monsoon rains may hit the country's southern coast in the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department said in its latest forecast on Sunday.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - British bank Standard Chartered raised about $530 million after pricing its Indian depositary receipts (IDRs) towards the lower end of the indicated range on Sunday in the first issue of its kind.