Mercantile Ports and Logistics Ltd (LON: MPL) is raising £3m from a placing at 3p a share and a group of investors, including existing substantial shareholder Hunch Ventures and Investment Private Ltd, are subscribing for £5.85m worth of shares. A retail offer could raise up to £1.2m more at 3p a share. The retail offer […]

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India declared a wheat export ban on Friday last week, after a devastating heatwave decimated grain production in the world’s second-largest wheat producing country. The benchmark wheat index increased 5.9% in Chicago, representing a two-month high for the commodity. The price of the grain has soared 40% year-to-date, as the combined impact of the war […]

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India’s coronavirus death toll now stands at nearly 180,000 Oil prices slipped on Monday as rising cases of Covid-19 emerged across the world, leading to measures to tackle the pandemic being reinstated. The strong measures to curb the spread will have knock on effects on economic activity, including demand for oil. Having risen by 6% […]

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According to data from the OECD, Statista and the World Bank, the global economy is set to lose $3.94 trillion in ‘real GDP’ in 2020, due to the COVID pandemic. We should understand real GDP as a measure of the sum of goods and services produced by a country, with factors such as inflation factored […]

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Speaking on one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies, Fund Manager of the India Capital Growth Fund (LON:IGC), David Cornell, told the UK Investor Magazine what to be excited about as India recovers from the Covid slump. What makes India’s economy tick, and how is it innovating? According to Mr Cornell, India’s tech sector […]

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Likely to be a crucial day of results and potentially influential on global equities, the Australian, European, and Asian economies posted their manufacturing PMI data on Thursday, and September’s results displayed various degrees of success across some of Asia fastest-growing economies India manufacturing moves up a gear Continuing the boom it began in August, India’s […]

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Tech conglomerate Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) announced at its annual online Google for India 2020 event on Monday that it plans to invest $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years to scale up the country’s digital infrastructure. The initiative comes as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to being ‘a part of India’s […]

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The UK government has announced that it is set to spend £400 million on a stake in bankrupt satellite firm OneWeb, as part of its post-Brexit plan to replace the loss of access to the EU’s Galileo sat-nav system. OneWeb declared itself bankrupt back in May after the company racked up $2 billion in debt, […]

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On the one hand stimulus hopes and Coronavirus treatments, on the other hand geopolitical tensions and a looming second wave. Global equities certainly weren’t short of things to consider on Wednesday, but rather had trouble dealing with contradictory news and mixed sentiments. On one side, markets were running off of the steam of Tuesday’s Fed-based […]

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Sustainable Investment, defined by the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment as “an investment discipline that considers environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria to generate long-term competitive financial returns and positive societal impact”, is a rapidly growing industry. A Financial Times article published earlier this year revealed that “$17.5tn out of the $79tn of […]

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Donald Trump has been in India over the last few days, with the intention to get a trade deal done with India and also bolster his election campaign hopes. The US President has said that he has agreed to ‘promptly’ conclude ongoing trade talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Donald Trump has had a […]

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Western fashion experts for online Indian consumers Koovs plc (LON: KOOVS) boasted impressive fundamentals during the second quarter, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Future Lifestyle Fashions Limited’s investment into the company. The Group’s headline figure was its 100% year-on-year gross order value growth, from £2.5 million to £5.0 million. This was bolstered by additional progress […]

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PricewaterhouseCoopers (NYSEARCA:PWC) have released their latest projected GDP rankings for 2019, with these latest rankings dropping the UK from fifth to seventh place. This follows the announcement that the World Bank dropped the UK to ninth in their business rankings, with most bearish outlooks being attributed – unsurprisingly – to Brexit uncertainty. While currency concerns […]

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After a strong start to 2018, emerging markets have faced a procession of headwinds, with the ensuing crises only set to worsen with the latest wave of currency sell-offs. Yesterday, the FTSE emerging index of the developing world’s largest companies saw its largest slump in three weeks, a dip of 1.6%, continuing the downward trend […]

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