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Inflation is slowing down personal consumption expenditure, which in turn is moderating corporate sales and holding back private investment in capacity creation, said a Reserve Bank paper on Friday. The paper, authored by a…

Daytime napping may help to preserve brain health by slowing the rate at which our brains shrink as we age, suggests a new study led by researchers at UCL and the University of the Republic in Uruguay. The study, published in the journal…

TikTok isn't the worst of the social media lot, but it is fundamentally a video app and so will use a lot of system resources for downloading, decoding, and displaying video more or less nonstop. Obviously, streaming video…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran economic growth is seen…

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia may have failed to lure Lionel Messi but Karim Benzema's extravagant welcome and the merger that stunned golf underline the extent of the oil-rich country's sporting ambitions.A beaming Benzema was hailed by thousands…

In the crushing, cold depths of the oceans, something unimaginably huge flows inexorably, barely a few centimeters per second, along a path it has traveled for millennia. Dense, dark rivers of water toil ceaselessly around the world, making…

With Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in Paris for a gathering of OECD finance ministers, the organization has published its latest Economic Outlook. The report, published twice a year, presents the global economic…

Fast-food chains and apparel firms are feeling the pressure of a discretionary slowdown but few are cutting down on store additions as many bank on a comeback in discretionary spending in the second half of FY24. Barring Pantaloons, part…

Vegan fast-food chain Neat Burger has boosted its valuation to $100mn in a new funding round aimed at fuelling a US expansion, despite waning appetite for plant-based food among consumers and investors.The chain, which is backed by…

In its results for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2023, Nintendo has reported that Switch hardware sales declined by 22%, as the company only sold 17.97 million consoles during that 12-month period. Nintendo…