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(MENAFN- Asia Times) A targeted US military strike on Iranian military assets has reignited geopolitical risk in global markets, and the immediate fallout is being felt most acutely across emerging Asia. Asian currencies, equities and bonds are under renewed pressure as investors price in higher energy costs, a potential capital exodus and a delayed path to monetary easing. The Bloomberg Asia Dollar Index dropped 0.3%, its largest single-day decline in weeks. The South Korean won and Indonesian rupiah led regional currency losses, while equity markets from Manila to Seoul posted...

Amid concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump’s hard-hitting tariff policy, diversified Indian financial services company Motilal Oswal has suggested that India could strengthen its domestic industries and ramp up local production. Trump has a history of imposing heavy tariffs on India, including 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imposed in 2018. The tariffs had an inimical effect on India’s trade with the U.S., with steel exports plunging 46% one year after the tariffs were announced.Meanwhile, India’s heavy reliance on oil imports leads to huge capital outflows and a weaker...

By Eliyahu Kamisher | BloombergThe US’s largest pension fund has classified more than $3 billion of holdings in oil drillers, coal miners, and other major greenhouse gas producers as climate-friendly investments, according to a new analysis of public records.Stakes in Saudi Aramco, Chevron Corp. and Chinese coal company Inner Mongolia Dian Tou Energy are among the holdings that California Public Employees’ Retirement System labeled as  “climate solutions.”RELATED: More than 7,000 gallons of hydrocarbon materials were released in Martinez refinery blazeThe findings are part of a report from California Common Good, a...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - East Memphis renter Cathey Triggs was shocked to see her electric bill increase by $60 after the deep freeze."It's hard when you ain't making the money to pay the bills," she explained.Like thousands of Memphis renters, Triggs lives in an older home. As FOX13 has reported, half of all Memphis homes were built before 1978. As the decades go by, insulation wears down. "The insulation is something that is solvable," explained Sam Mullins, the owner of Automatic Air Conditioning, Heating, Plumbing and Electric. Mullins told FOX13 that he has seen...