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US government guarantees peaked $4.3 trillion: COP report
07 Nov 2009
The various government programmes played a major role in containing the severe financial crisis, and the income from these would likely exceed their expenditure, although
Axis Bank to offer interest rates, no processing fee, instant processing at its home expos
05 Nov 2009
Home loan rates to harden as banks feel crunch
02 Nov 2009
SBI reports 10.18 per cent rise in Q2 profit
31 Oct 2009
ICICI Bank posts unexpected gains
30 Oct 2009
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PNB to buy majority stake in Kazakh’s Dana Bank
30 Oct 2009
India’s second-largest public sector lender, has received approval from its board of directors to acquire a majority stake of about 63 per cent in Kazakhstan-based Dana Bank
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RBI asks banks to weed out `rogue' accounts
29 Oct 2009
RBI has asked banks to scan all existing accounts to ensure that no account is held by or linked to any of rogue entities identified by the UN Security Council Committee
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RBI keeps key rates unchanged; hikes banks' liquidity reserve ratio
27 Oct 2009
The RBI said its monetary and interest rate policy is consistent with price stability and financial stability and supportive of the growth process.
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Barclays acquires Standard Life Bank for £226 million
27 Oct 2009
Barclays and Standard Life have also agreed to explore joint opportunities in the UK retail long-term savings and investments sector, starting with a multi-channel, simplified pension product
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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