Futures are higher late Wednesday but they have been all week and the market went the opposite direction in regular trade. Futures for U.S. markets were higher late Thursday, but they have provided little guidance to Wall Street’s performance in regular trade in the final week of the year as both the Trump and Santa rallies wilted.

Bad debts at Indian lenders, especially those in the dominant state-run sector, have climbed to a 14-year high and could swell further, putting a strain on their capital buffers and profitability, a central bank study showed. The industry’s gross bad-loan ratio jumped to 9.1 percent in September, from 7.8 percent in March, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Stability Report released Thursday.

People in India have until the end of Friday to deposit discontinued notes in bank and post office accounts, or risk their money becoming worthless. Early last month the government scrapped the 500 and 1000 rupee notes to crack down on undeclared money and fake cash.

Short of a miracle, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi will fail to meet his own 50-day deadline to restore order to the country’s economy and ease the hardship faced by ordinary citizens following the chaos of his sudden currency ban. In an emotional plea to citizens following the withdrawal of 86 percent of the currency in circulation in a bid to target corruption, Modi promised the inconvenience would all be over by December 30. But demonetization’s trail of devastation — on farmers, workers, small shopkeepers, low-income households and businesses — is yet to ease.

Really? Taken verbatim, the headline was very misleading, since there are no supersonic commercial flights-or aircraft in service-to provide supersonic travel anywhere. The editors obviously figured why let the facts stand in the way of a bit of hype to pull readers into an article about Boom Technology, a Denver-based aerospace startup that has its sights set on developing a 45-seat jetliner that will cruise at 1,451 miles per hour.

The industry’s decades-old business model that relied on combustion engines and mass demand for private car ownership is coming to an end The convergence of traditional motor manufacturing and new digital technologies has been shifting slowly through the gears for a couple of years. But in 2016, things hit top speed.

The year 2016 has been filled with great oscillations as investors were taken on a wild ride, with some markets and exchange traded fund standing out from the rest.

Dec. 29, 2016 – 5:58 – Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton weighs in on the U.S. imposing sanctions on Russia in response to the alleged election hacking.

Mad Fientist , chose to live frugally in rural Vermont, where he managed to save and invest about 70% of his after-tax income . “I’d never been a spender,” Brandon, who worked as a software developer, told Business Insider .

Since the release of the “Star Wars” standalone movie, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” we have begun to realize how much tinkering was done to the movie not just in the reshoot phase but throughout principal photography. The most recent example is an interview with actor Ben Mendelsohn, who plays Orson Krennic in the movie, in which he hinted at the amount of alternative footage there is for the movie.

If you pay close attention to Business Insider’s Strategy vertical, you’ll notice we frequently share productivity tips from an expert we’ve just interviewed, a book we’ve just read, or new research we’ve just scoured. So, since you’re here to learn how to make better use of your time, we thought we’d save you some and round up the best productivity tricks out there.

On Tuesday, the Buffalo Bills became the 19th different NFL team to change head coaches in just the last three seasons. While that may seem like terrible job security, NFL coaches actually have it pretty good.