EXCLUSIVE India LIC’s embedded value set at over $66.8 bln, govt official says

State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India’s (LIC) embedded value has been finalised at more than 5 trillion rupees ($66.82 billion), a government official who is overseeing what is expected to be the country’s largest IPO said on Thursday.
Shipping rate surge threatens global economy recovery, UNCTAD says

A surge in container shipping rates poses a threat to the global economic recovery, with small countries dependent on deliveries by sea expected to be hardest hit by a spike in import prices, U.N. agency UNCTAD said on Thursday.