Daily Dispatches

By Meenakshi Sharma and Krishna N. Das
Reuters
Thursday, April 9, 2015

The two-century-old Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai devoted to the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha bristles with closed-circuit cameras and is guarded by 65 security officers.

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade, New York
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Having defeated the Crown in a bloody revolution some two centuries ago, Americans don't like living under a patriarchy, oligarchy or kleptocracy. Unfortunately, the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, is a little of all three.

ASIC Looks at RBA over Currency Trading Anomaly

By Vesna Poljiak
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Unusual trading in the Australian dollar seconds ahead of each of the past three Reserve Bank of Australia policy outcomes could be a result of insider leaks, automated algorithmic trading during a market lull, or shrewd guesses.

By Tom Parfitt and Mehreen Khan
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Russia could offer debt-ridden Greece controversial loans and discounts on supplies of natural gas in exchange for the country's "assets," according to reports in Moscow.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece's prime minister, is due to arrive in the city today and will meet Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, on Wednesday.