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SpaceX Aborted Its Third Attempt to Launch Falcon 9 Rocket Due to Technical Difficulties After a Delay

SpaceX aborts its third attempt to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, which is designed to land its booster on a platform, making spaceflight more affordable. The abrupt scrub, just seconds before the liftoff, was due to an unexpected delay that caused the fuel to fail.


India's Budget Focuses on Rural Development

With the release of the yearly budget many are hopeful that their lives will change for the better especially for those who live in the rural areas. The allocated budget focuses mainly on the agrarian sector, health and social and infrastructures that could help alleviate sufferings and give comfort for the less fortunate.

Global economic slowdown weakens economic recovery in the US: Indra Nooyi

According to Indra Nooyi, the ongoing global economic slowdown threatens economic recovery in the US. The oil market combined with political turmoil creates an economic pressure in the nation.

Flipkart’s Efforts For Raising $1 billion Fund In Limbo Since Morgan Stanley Down Marks Asset Values

Mutual funds have recently slashed the value of Silicon Valley startups. Marking down of Flipkart share price and valuation by Morgan Stanley has appeared as a great jolt for Flipkart. The Indian largest ecommerce retailer is expected to witness hurdles in raising its planned $1 billion fund following the Morgan Stanley move.


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China has represented itself as a familiar lender to the Latin American Countries and businesses fighting for debts. In a similar approach, it has extended loan facility to Brazilian indebted oil giant Petrobras for $10 billion securing oil for Chinese companies. The announcement has appeared just after the latest downgrading by Moody’s to junk status following several other credit rating agencies.
Kumagai Gumi Co, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Japanese construction firm, recorded hammering down of its shares. The stock suffered the most in over 13 years. The news that construction defects in a residential complex made Kumagai Gumi rebuild five apartments has hit hard shares and investors' confidence.
Registering the highest since April 2009, Nissan Motor Co's stock surged 12 percent following its buyback news. Nissan has announced its plan to buyback $3.5 billion worth shares.
Beating market predictions, industrial production in Japan rose during January 2016. On the other side, retail sales eased 1.1 percent. The mixed situation in the world's third largest economy is signaling ongoing uncertainty about GDP growth rate.
The US economy recorded better than expected performance during the fourth quarter enabling it to conclude 2015 on positive mode. Surpassing the forecast of 0.7 percent, the US economy grew one percent during September-October quarter in 2015 giving much leverage to the US government to tighten monetary policy.
Domain name Tesla.com is finally owned by Elon Musk's Tesla. All web traffic from the new website will now be redirected to the company's official page, TeslaMotors.com.
Alibaba plans of expanding and venturing into other business the reason it is seeking $4 billion in loans. It is already in talks with several banks and the request will be finalized by next month.
Did Kuaidi, the largest ride-hailing service in China is about to raise $1 billion the same amount that Uber spent last year for its expansion. It is going to be a tough competition for both companies since they are being backed up by other large companies such as Alibaba and Tencent Holdings Inc.
Venezuela has announced on Wednesday reaching a $5 billion venturing deal with Gold Reserves. The government is expecting to enrich its ever decaying foreign currency reserve with the fund under agreement. But analysts assume, the government may hardly use the fund since Gold Reserves and several other plaintiffs’ proceedings with ICSID are going to be concluded shortly.
White people were once ruling and oppressive class in South Africa, As government wipe out the apartheid, unskilled white people are ousted and have to live in slums. There are more than 400,000 white people live in poverty.