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U.S. refiners are heading into the summer driving season at full speed. Shares of Marathon Petroleum are up 45% year to date, while Valero and Phillips 66 are up 39% and 30%, respectively.

Quality Care, one among India's largest hospital chains backed by private equity (PE) investors Blackstone and TPG, on Thursday announced two key appointments to its leadership to drive the hospital platform’s rapid growth in South Asia. It named Dr Hari Prasad, as Group chairman & non-executive director and Varun Khanna as the Group managing director Prasad, with over 30 years of experience, was most recently the president of Apollo Group Hospitals, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the journey of Apollo Hospitals having overseen the growth from 1,200 beds to 10,000 beds. He also serves as the executive chairman of Society for Emergency Medicine, India. He has been honored with a Fellowship by Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK and International Federation of Emergency Medicine. He has helped establish Apollo Health City in Hyderabad, Asia’s first operational health city.

Gucci advertisement was recently spotted on a massive billboard in Spain's Madrid. Reacting to the giant picture of the Bollywood diva, that too in a European location, one of her fans said, “Nice photoshoot, best picture of Alia. It's a great move to connect to the Indian audience as she has a great fanbase in India".

Between December 2023 and March 2024, UK investors have added £6.6bn to North American equity funds, which is more than the combined £6.3bn invested since the data study began nine years ago. North American equity funds attracted £1.7bn of new capital in March, bringing the total for the first quarter of the year to a record £5.7bn, which is more than triple the previous best quarter (£1.7bn in Q4 2020). Edward Glyn, head of global markets at Calastone, said: «The US earnings recession is over. Profits are once again on the up and that seems to be the main catalyst driving fund inflow...

His appointment, effective from last month, comes nearly 18 months after his departure from Franklin Templeton in October 2022, where he had worked since 2020 upon the firm's acquisition of Legg Mason.  Prior to joining Legg Mason, Barry spent 19 years at JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was a managing director and held a number of senior positions in London and New York. He began his career at Fidelity International, working in telesales.  Franklin Templeton's head of UK wholesale channel leaves firm «I am delighted to join SMDAM and bring my extensive experience to this fast-...

Vodafone Idea will on 6 April consider issuing equity or convertible securities of up to ₹2,075 crore on a preferential basis to one or more promoter group entities, the company told BSE in a notice late Wednesday. This follows shareholder approval of the third largest carrier's proposal to raise ₹20,000 crore from issuing securities. Vodafone Idea’s board had approved a ₹45,000-crore fundraising initiative, including the ₹20,000-crore equity-based capital infusion from existing investors, on 27 February.

Apple services including its App Store, video and music streaming platforms Apple TV+ and Apple Music, were resolved after outages that affected users across multiple regions, the company's website showed. Issues were also reported on Apple's fitness service Apple Fitness+, as well as Arcade, Audiobooks, Books and Podcasts, according to Apple's system status pages for several countries reviewed by Reuters.

Vodafone Idea (Vi) Wednesday said its board will meet on April 6 to consider raising funds via a preferential share issue. The move comes after the cash-strapped telco's shareholders cleared a proposal to raise ₹20,000 crore through equity and equity-linked instruments, a move that would give a much needed lifeline to the cash-strapped telco. The meeting «is scheduled to be held on Saturday, 6th April 2024, inter-alia, to consider proposal for issuance of equity shares and/or convertible securities on a preferential basis,» Vi said in an exchange filing.

Radisson Hotel Group currently has a hotel at every four hours of driving distance in India. The global hospitality chain targets to have a property at every two hours of driving distance, a senior official said. Radisson signed 21 new hotels in India last year, including signings for locations such as Jhansi and Sonipat. It now plans to sign about 30 hotels every year in the country for the next five years, said Elie Younes, executive vice president and global chief development officer at Radisson Hotel Group. The next five years are likely to see a record phase of expansion by global chains, including Marriott, Hilton, IHG and Wyndham, in India. CEOs, regional heads, and industry insiders say this is the most bullish they have ever been.

MUMBAI : Government reforms aiding the privatization of listed companies could help unlock greater value for investors in the Indian market, said Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, one of the largest alternatives investors globally. "The government has done a lot of incredibly positive things. I think one thing that could help unlock the market here is an ability to take companies private, to help improve them, then bring them back to the market, maybe with more scale," Gray said during a media briefing in Mumbai on Wednesday.

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In the City broker's latest UK M&A report, Charles Hall described the pace of «de-equitisation» in the market as «relentless», and said it was due to continue given the low valuations of UK companies.  The impact of the scale of de-equitisation was most evident in the FTSE SmallCap sector, Hall said, with the trend over the past five years showing a significant reduction in the number of companies.  London remains 'key destination' for IPOs From 160 companies at the end of 2018, this has been reduced to 114 by December 2023. Based on the current bids progressing, this will reduce t...

ALSO READ: Harry feels ‘more spare than ever’ after Kate's cancer diagnosis: royal expert Kate had revealed that her cancer was discovered after she received abdominal surgery in January this year. Through the video, Kate had tried to end rumours and conspiracy theories about her whereabouts as she had been missing from the spotlight since her abdominal surgery.

red panda might be throwing its paws in the air, like a furry thief being apprehended, or a kitten may sit astride a tiny motorcycle. The supply of these endearing clips is huge. On TikTok there are 65m videos tagged #cute.

Lloyds Bank, Nationwide Building Society, NatWest Group, and property portal Rightmove collectively invested £10m (about $12.6m) in Coadjute, a blockchain firm focused on property transactions, according to a press release Tuesday.

Independent. Royal author Dr Tessa Dunlop told the Mirror: “Harry is the self-identifying royal 'spare'. And in the wake of his sister-in-law's health revelations, I expect he feels more spare than ever," as quoted by the Independent.

Bengaluru, 3rd April, 2024: JoinDevOps, a Bengaluru-based bootstrapped startup specializing in DevOps and Cloud Engineering education, was founded in November 2023. Within just six months of operation, it has impressively generated revenue of $215,000 USD. As the preeminent provider of DevOps and Cloud Engineering education, JoinDevOps is dedicated to upskilling students, offering courses in Telugu to cater to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana markets, as well as in English for the national market..

In many ways, the recently concluded agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is mainly a confidence building measure for India in the run-up to trade agreements likely to be pursued after general elections with the EU and UK. In most cases, the I-EFTA pact will have limited impact—India’s principal import from the four-nation group, gold, is not subject to pre-determined tariff reductions, while agricultural imports are excluded.

Israel-Hamas war has led to destruction of infrastructure worth $18.5 billion On Monday, an Israeli military strike resulted in the tragic deaths of seven aid workers from the non-profit organisation World Central Kitchen as they were delivering food to starving civilians in Gaza. The workers were traveling in two armoured cars marked with the charity's logo and another vehicle.

Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City's experience of thriving under the pressure of a title race will not be the decisive factor in who wins the Premier League. Guardiola's men are aiming to become the first side to ever win four consecutive English top-flight titles and claim their sixth Premier League crown in seven seasons. However, City will have to come from behind in the final nine games of the campaign after a 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal on Sunday left them still in third.

hypocritical paradoxes? — such as renewable energy-friendly oil'n'gas conglomerates, or sustainable development construction firms. But no one seems to bat an eyelid when it comes to the same kind of oxymorons if it comes with the right kind of pomp and tradition.