ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – Four companies operating in the Leningrad Region will use the support of the regional Industrial Development Center to market their products at the Alibaba.com global e-commerce platform, a member of the regional administration's press service announced.

New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian stock market surged over 5% in early trading on Friday after the country's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a massive boost for the economy, which witnessed a six-year low growth rate of 5% during April-June this year.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Despite massive economic stress, the Pakistani government has planned to set up five Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals across the country in the next few years. Pakistan's petroleum division of the ministry of energy said developers will submit technical and financial details by 5 November to develop the terminals.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States and Australia will announce a new plan to jointly cooperate on improving their supplies of rare earth minerals when Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits Washington next week, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has stated that he had again contacted his Saudi counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman after the attacks on oil facilities of Saudi Aramco.

German automakers Volkswagen and Porsche have announced they will recall the vehicles over safety issues with airbag systems and seatbelt pre-tensioners, leading to another headache for the Wolfsburg and Stuttgart-based carmaker, German media reported on Thursday.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Despite including energy as a "major new component" of its bilateral ties, India is not expecting any concrete discussion on a long-term energy agreement with the US, similar to one signed with Russia, as part of a five-year roadmap for cooperation in the energy sector.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said that it has fined Google 100,000 roubles, or about $1,560, for overspreading illegal ads for financial services.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States’ benchmark interest rate will decrease by 25 basis points to a range of 1.75 percent to 2 percent, the US Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement.

The loss of customers, the company’s reputation, and jeopardizing privacy are new risks increasingly facing businesses these days.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Premier of the Chinese State Council Li Keqiang will hold a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss possibilities for strengthening bilateral relations in trade, science, and innovations, as well as issues of cooperation on the international arena.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's State Nuclear Corporation Rosatom on Tuesday signed an intergovernmental agreement with Uganda to cooperate in the peaceful use of nuclear energy that prescribes the possibility of constructing a nuclear science and technology centre in the African country, Rosatom's press service said.

The energy minister also announced that the country's oil market is expected to be fully back online by the end of September.

The United States has been granted the green light to potentially impose billions of euros in punitive tariffs on EU products in retaliation for illegal subsidies granted to European aerospace giant Airbus, POLITICO reported on 15 September, citing sources as saying the WTO had ruled in favour of the US in the long-running transatlantic dispute.

Saturday’s attacks on two Saudi Aramco facilities led the oil-rich kingdom to cut its production by 5.7 million barrels per day, or around half of its total daily output, and roughly 5 percent of total global oil production.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed the Federal Reserve for refusing to listen to his demands to make dramatic cuts to the interest rate.

Earlier, analysts suggested that the vast size of the Chinese tech giant’s market share in overseas markets meant that its recently stepped-up efforts to create its own technology ecosystem threatened to cost US tech suppliers billions in revenues in the coming years.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid skyrocketing crude oil prices after the Houthi drone attacks on two major Saudi oil fields, India’s energy analyst expressed concern over its impact on the financial health and inflation on the world’s third-biggest oil importer.

Three JPMorgan Chase traders were accused by the Justice Department on Monday of masterminding a “massive” eight-year scheme to manipulate international markets for precious metals like gold and silver.

In a statement by the White House Office of the Press Secretary Monday evening, US President Donald Trump announced the US and Japan had concluded an initial trade agreement regarding trade barriers between the two nations.