The Australian sharemarket marched to its fifth straight week of gains as a string of floats sparkled on their ASX debut and banks lifted the bourse during Friday’s trading session. The S&P/ASX 200 Index progressed 33 points, or 0.5 per cent, higher throughout …
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The Australian Airport Association has called for aviation employees to be prioritised for COVID vaccine when a rollout begins next year. Chief executive James Goodwin said that while emergency services workers and the vulnerable should be “at the front of …
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LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Trading at Primark stores that reopened this week after COVID-19 lockdowns has been “phenomenal”, the finance chief of the fashion chain’s owner Associated British Foods said on Friday. “It’s very clear that our trading before the …
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Mumbai: The need to maintain people’s confidence in digital banking resulted in the action against HDFC Bank for service outages, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday and exhorted lenders to invest more on the technology front. The regulator is …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices jumped around 2% on Friday, heading for a fifth week of gains, as major producers agreed on a compromise to continue some cuts to production to cope with coronavirus-hit demand even though these fell short of expectations.
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