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The central bank modelled what would happen to chip exports if big US technology firms slowed their AI spending next year. The scenario is the only one it published with figures.
The Reserve Bank's October bulletin separates the price of credit from its composition. On contracted loans, banks passed on 64 per cent of a cut; on the headline average, 74.4 per cent.
Seventy branches in the chain formerly known as WH Smith have shut or will shut by early 2027. The Post Office says there is interest in taking on every one of them.
Bilateral trade reached almost 15 billion dollars from May to August. The zero-tariff arrangement runs in one direction.
Piyush Goyal told a Berlin business forum that tenfold growth in Indo-German trade was achievable ahead of the India-EU free trade agreement. Germany's economy minister put the ambition at double.
The Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate unanimously to 5.5 per cent and then split four to two on what to call its position. The minutes set out the difference.
Seasonal retail recruitment is expected to fall below last year's 450,000 posts. Amazon's own intake is up 20 per cent.
Rightmove figures shared with the BBC show more reductions in September than in any month for 15 years. Agents say a reduced price makes buyers suspicious even when nothing is wrong with the property.
Microsoft has ended its involvement in the Loughton supercomputer. Nscale says it remains committed to the site and is exploring alternative power sources.
Caracas expects almost 76 billion dollars of oil investment in five years under 61 new agreements. One production figure arrived without a timescale attached.
HKEX now targets the second half of 2028 for T+1, deferred from the fourth quarter of 2027. Its consultation drew 109 responses, which it says showed strong support for going faster.
Australian delivered prices have risen from about 600 dollars, with production forecast to fall 52 per cent. Buyers want the crop pre-positioned a month before Ramadan.
A prime Marina South site drew a single offer of S$450.1 million after analysts had expected up to six bidders. The spread was nil.
New laws require the seller's reserve price to be made public seven days before an auction. The industry's answer is to set it where there is room to come down.
Yass Valley Council voted 5-4 to take a special rate variation to consultation. Independent consultants found it needs an extra $8.3 million a year from operations by 2027-28.
The investment firm Ithaca Holdings is taking over the loss-making dating app. Its directors say technology should serve human connection.
Three awards covering 363,100 hectares were announced as the state's answer to energy costs. The first well is a couple of years away, and the permit to look for it is two years before that.
Portfolio investors have taken $33.7 billion out of listed Indian equities this year and put $5.9 billion into initial public offerings. Analysts say the difference is price.
WIN Network has stopped carrying Network 10's channels in four regional Australian markets. An expert says the transmitters now cost more than the advertising they earn.
Tishman Speyer has taken over the ground lease and will restore the Art Deco crown and the 77-storey facade. The developer says almost no new office space has been built nearby for decades.
Sensor Tower data shared with The Times of India shows religious, spiritual and astrology apps already past their whole-of-2025 total. Daily time spent on astrology apps is up more than half since 2022.
The data centre company withdrew its $11-a-share offer on Friday after investor demand failed to materialise. It had been expected to carry a $44bn valuation.
The company estimates operating profit of 107.4 trillion won for the three months to September, its fourth consecutive record quarter. A chip shortage has pushed up the price of phones and computers.
Several froyo chains have opened across the UK this year, drawing queues of up to two hours. The European market is worth £434m, and the product is now described as an experience.
The rocket and satellite group is in early talks for $10bn of bank loans and $30bn of investment-grade debt. Apollo, which is leading it, joined Nvidia’s $500bn financing coalition in August.
Murrumbidgee Council could not find anyone to take a 20-year lease on the Jerilderie saleyard at $1 a year. Its final sale penned 10,000 sheep and set a record price.
Registrations of .si ran at about a thousand a month until the United States renamed artificial intelligence. More than six thousand arrived in two days.
Mowbray Golf Club cut out a 100mm connection after its annual bill doubled to about $40,000. Three months later TasWater decided to bill 100mm connections as if they were 20mm.
Raspberry Pi has raised the price of its 2GB Pi 4 and Pi 5 by $12.50 each, blaming memory costs. Micron says the shortage may run into 2028.
Ten grams of 24-carat gold costs about Rs 1.5 lakh. The same money buys roughly 650 grams of silver, and the trade expects a record festive season for it.
The jobless rate rose to 2.5 per cent in August while the job availability ratio held steady at 1.18. Both figures come from the government, and both are correct.
September shipments hit a record US$120.94 billion. Memory demand rose and memory prices rose, and the trade data cannot tell the two apart.
Fourteen parabolic dishes in outback New South Wales once powered a hospital, a school, a post office and 12 homes. They are now legally significant.
Reuters reports that roughly a third of the 261-page main body sets out what could go wrong. The company is said to be seeking a valuation above $2tn.
The company said on 28 September it would spend a further $150 billion repurchasing its own stock, taking the total remaining authorisation to $235 billion. It described the programme as the largest repurchase in history.
The discounter reported record annual revenue of £19bn and will spend £900m opening more than 40 stores next year. Asda remains third by value of sales, by less than a percentage point.
The guide's second global hotel selection gave India two Three-Key properties, 15 with Two and 30 with One. The Keys rate service, design, character and value for money.
TasWater's fixed charges are set by the size of a property's meter connection rather than by the water it uses. A parliamentary inquiry heard that one option for affected customers is to reduce that connection to 20 millimetres.
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit puts the summer shortfall at four days of national supply, worth more than £83m. The annual total is expected to disagree.
India's largest stock exchange became a listed company on Thursday after the second-biggest initial public offering in the country's history. Its own platform was not available to it.
From July 2028, organisations with over 200 employees must employ at least one certified human resources professional. The certified pool is to grow from 9,000 to about 18,000 by 2030.
One widely used high-protein whey cost 130% more in late August than a year earlier. Weight-loss drugs have added a new source of demand to an already tight market.
An analysis of 47.4m MOT tests found electric vehicles past 120,000 miles fail far less often than petrol cars of the same age. The test does not examine the battery.
Fisheries authorities across Australia's east coast are raiding sellers, issuing record fines and destroying seized vessels. Top-grade mud crab retails at up to $64 a kilogram.
About 100,000 tons of copper is arriving in the United States, the port is largely full and twenty new warehouses have opened. No duty has been collected.
The main rate rose a quarter point on Friday, to a level not seen since 1995. It was minus 0.1% as recently as 2024.
The 96-year-old hands the chairmanship to his son Howard and becomes chairman emeritus. Greg Abel already has the chief executive's desk.
Nats says a software defect that occurred in the space of a millisecond produced corrupted data and led to more than 2,000 cancellations on 8 September. The regulator has judged the disruption to be extraordinary circumstances.
The retailer's first catwalk show put half its collection on sale below £50 as the models walked. Its womenswear director says second place in style perception is exactly where the company wants to be.
Unite wants exemptions and a one-off payment as the bank raises its minimum office attendance to three days a week. One of the demands carries an arithmetic consequence nobody has claimed.
The first move in either direction since December 2025 lifts the target range to 3.75%-4%. At the observed pace, the institution is now measurable.
Households took 15,115 complaints to the watchdog last year, the biggest annual rise in its 20-year history. A separate figure measures how many did not go further.
Cheap, scalable power is becoming central to competitiveness as AI, data centres and electrification lift demand. Geography may once again be destiny, particularly for countries standing near a socket.
The programmable-chip maker is seeking public-market capital amid strong demand for businesses exposed to artificial intelligence. Ordinary electronics have been advised to learn several neural networks before meeting investors.
Competitors have failed to disrupt the seven-day market for the 38th consecutive week this year.