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NEW YORK: Gold was steady after posting its biggest drop in six weeks as bond yields surged, with investors bracing for monetary policy tightening in 2022. Ten-year Treasuries had the worst start to a year in more than a decade, with yields rising 12 basis points on Monday, the largest first-day jump since 2009, according to Bloomberg data. Meanwhile, the SP 500 Index closed at a record high on risk-on sentiment. Bullion fell last year in its biggest annual decline since 2015 as central banks st

TOKYO: Oil prices rose on Monday on the back of positive signs for global economic growth, supporting energy demand, while Saudi Arabia's state-owned producer Aramco raised the official selling price for its crude. Brent crude was up by 84 cents or 1% at$ 83.58 a barrel by 0609 GMT, after dropping nearly 2% last week.... U.S. oil gained 95 cents or 1.2% to$ 82.22, having declined almost 3% through Friday. President Joe Biden on Saturday welcomed congressional passage of a long-delayed$ 1 trilli

SINGAPORE: Oil futures jumped on Monday, with Brent rising above$ 120 a barrel after Saudi Arabia hiked prices for its crude sales in July, signalling tight supply even after OPEC+ agreed to accelerate output increases over the next two months. Brent crude was up 91 cents, or 0.8%, at$ 120.63 a barrel at 0343 GMT after touching an intraday high of$ 121.95, extending a 1.8% gain from Friday.U.S. West Texas Intermediate( WTI) crude futures were up 93 cents, or 0.8%, at$ 119.80 a barrel after earli

This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.... Some groups have long called for a separate homeland for Sikhs.In the 1970s Sikhs launched a separatist insurgency in India which saw thousands killed before it was quelled the following decade.... There are an estimated 1.4 to 1.8 million Canadians of Indian origin and the country has the largest population of Sikhs outside Punjab....

SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell nearly$ 1 on Monday as concerns about fuel demand from the spread of COVID-19 variants, as well as floods in China, offset expectations of tight supplies through the rest of the year. Brent crude futures for September fell 95 cents, or 1.3%, to$ 73.15 a barrel by 0627 GMT while U.S. Texas Intermediate crude was at$ 71.11 a barrel, down 96 cents.... Earlier, both contracts dipped just over$ 1. Coronavirus cases continued to rise over the weekend with some countries pos

SINGAPORE: Oil prices plunged more than$ 5 a barrel on Thursday on news the United States was considering the release of up to 180 million barrels from its strategic petroleum reserve, the largest in the near 50-year history of the SPR. Brent futures for May fell$ 5.47, or 4.8%, to$ 107.98 a barrel at 0608 GMT.... The May contract expires on Thursday and the most actively traded June futures were down$ 5.26 to$ 106.18.U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for May delivery fell$ 6.23, or 5.8%, to

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India responded furiously-it" completely rejected" the allegations, calling them" absurd".... Now, talks are paused and an imminent Canadian trade mission to India postponed.So how did things reach this point?... The recent G20 summit hosted by Delhi offered some hints, key among them Mr Trudeau's tense( and short) meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi....