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Besides market factors like rupee and liquidity conditions, there are some structural factors contributing to a slowdown in overseas borrowings. Lenders in the West have become very sensitive to ESG factors, especially environmental, which is also a challenge for sectors highly relevant to environmental concerns, like conventional energies.

Banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) have agreed to issue a no objection certificate (NOC) to RIL following which the Mukesh Ambani-promoted company will transfer the agreed amount to an escrow account. The NOC essentially is a no dues certificate for RITL, a procedure followed before the implementation of the resolution plan.

Some fund houses, including iLabs India Special Situations Fund, Edelweiss Alternative Assets Advisors, Capri Global Holdings, ACRE India, JM Financial Assets Reconstruction Company and Alpha Alternatives Holdings, have submitted expressions of interest (EoIs), one of the persons cited earlier said.

The government and LIC together own more than 94% equity in IDBI Bank. The combined state holding in the bank, which had among the highest proportions of bad loans, is valued in excess of ₹41,000 crore at current market prices.

The net proceeds from the fresh share issue will be utilised for funding capital expenditure requirements to expand manufacturing and R&D facilities and to fund long-term working capital requirements.

"They stayed hawkish, but they also opened the door perhaps for a half of a percentage point hike in September as opposed to 75," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

In supply, Russia has started to gradually increase oil production after sanctions-related curbs and as Asian buyers have increased purchases, leading Moscow to raise its forecasts for output and exports until the end of 2025, an economy ministry document reviewed by Reuters showed.

Cohen did not respond to a request for comment. His venture capital firm had on Tuesday bought call options expiring in January 2023 on 1.67 million shares with a strike price ranging from $60 to $80.

Data released on Wednesday showed U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly unchanged in July as falling gasoline prices weighed on receipts at service stations, but consumer spending appeared to pick up at the start of the third quarter.

Federal Reserve officials saw "little evidence" late last month that U.S. inflation pressures were easing, the minutes showed. The minutes flagged an eventual slowdown in the pace of hikes, but not a switch to cuts in 2023 that traders until recently had priced in to interest-rate futures.