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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Janet Yellen traveled to Beijing earlier this year, there was one person in particular she wanted to talk to: He Lifeng, one of the men holding the keys to the Chinese economy.

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The world economy, buffeted by conflict and growing geopolitical rivalries, is in danger of getting stuck in a slow-growth, high-debt rut, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned Thursday

A new threat intelligence report from Microsoft says foreign adversaries have showed continued determination to influence the U.S. election and there are signs their activity will intensify as Election Day nears

BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Oppo is doubling down on artificial intelligence as it holds weekly talks about AI with senior management at Google and Microsoft in the run-up to the launch of its flagship phone overseas.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A tough market for luxury goods is covering up deeper issues at Gucci. The brand’s revamp isn’t taking off yet and its owner’s pockets are shrinking.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Eighty years ago world leaders meeting in Bretton Woods, N.H., created the International Monetary Fund to prevent the sorts of economic imbalances that had brought on the Great Depression. Today, imbalances once again threaten global harmony.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said in a conversation with Nvidia chief executive officer (CEO) Jensen Huang. Speaking at the Nvidia AI Summit in Mumbai on Thursday, Ambani said India is now one of the top countries in digital infrastructure, alongside the US and China. “India now has the best digital connectivity infrastructure, apart from the US and China, with 4G, 5G, and broadband systems in the world,” he said.

Deep Blue Aerospace, will begin selling tickets on Thursday for a commercial spaceflight scheduled for 2027. The tickets will be available during a livestream shopping event hosted by the company's founder, Huo Liang. Each ticket costs 1.5 million yuan (approximately $211,000) and offers passengers a chance to experience five minutes of zero gravity. Customers can secure their tickets by paying a 50,000 yuan deposit. Deep Blue Aerospace aims to lead China's growing commercial space industry, which Beijing hopes will compete with international rivals like SpaceX. In 2023, China conducted 26 commercial launches, including the successful launch of LandSpace's Zhuque-2 rocket, the first methane-fueled rocket in the world. Deep Blue Aerospace is focused on developing reusable rocket technology to lower costs. The planned mission in 2027 will be a suborbital flight, meaning passengers will reach space without entering orbit. The entire space experience is expected to last around 12 minutes.

At record index levels and indeed across market cycles, most investors tend to focus entirely on the returns that an investment could generate. The underlying risk in achieving a specific return is often ignored.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SRF Ltd's September quarter (Q2FY25) results drew a lukewarm response from the Street, with the underperformance in its core chemicals segment and muted growth in the packaging films business weighing on investor sentiment. Consolidated Ebitda came in at ₹538 crore, down 13% year-on-year, falling short of the consensus estimate of ₹631 crore.

Reliance and Nvidia, a leading US-based company in Artificial Intelligence computing has announced a joint attempt in building AI infrastructure in India. The announcement was made by CEO Jensen Huang during a chat session with Mukesh Ambani at the Nvidia AI Summit 2024 on Thursday. The summit was being hosted by Nvidia, one of the world's leading tech companies for the first time in India. «It makes complete sense that India should manufacture its own AI. You should not export data to import intelligence. India should not export flour to import bread,» said Jensen Huang while in conversation with the Reliance Chairperson.

«We like the CDMO space, no doubt about that and that is why we have only one player out there, which is probably one of the best players within that space as such,» says Dinshaw Irani, CEO, Helios Mutual Fund. Are you keen on pharma at all and which end of pharma, is it hospitals, diagnostic, domestic facing companies, CDMO players, export players, where is that you are finding value and comfort right now? Dinshaw Irani: So, basically, it is kitchen sinking out there. I mean, the way you stated. So, I do not know. We are very keen on obviously hospitals. We have got a couple of players there that we like and that is more of a call on the per capita is moving up in our country and obviously health becoming a bigger spend, that is what one saw in China or any other economy which was picking up as such, so that is one call that we have taken.

rupee stayed flat at 84.07 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday amid elevated crude oil prices and continuous withdrawal of foreign funds from capital market. However, the local unit found some cushion as the dollar retreated from its higher level while the domestic equity markets indicated a recovery, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 84.06 against the greenback and slipped 1 paisa to trade at previous day's closing level in initial deals.

At the COP28 climate talks in Dubai last year, leaders from more than 130 nations agreed to triple renewable power capacity by the end of the decade. It was one of the few tangible agreements at the annual meeting and a goal that’s crucial to cut dependence on fossil fuels that cause climate change. While the target remains achievable, current rates of clean power deployment aren’t sufficient and the rollout of wind turbines is lagging, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Gurmeet Chadha, Co-Founder & CEO, Complete Circle Consultants, says wherever there is earning support, one can buy a basket. Complete Circle likes financials and has been dipping into it. Amongst largecaps, they have bought ICICI and added to SBI. In tier II banks, they have added Federal Bank and are also looking at some select NBFCs. They are also adding a few defence names with a 20-30% correction from the peak. Plus, they are adding some auto ancillary stocks, which have been under a lot of pressure. In PSUs, Chadha is gung-ho on PSU banks. SBI trades at book. Bank of Baroda came up with a very good update. In Bank of Baroda, the retail mix is improving. What is your take on the markets at this juncture because it has been a decent sell-off from the high point. Is there any area where you are finding the valuations to be attractive or good opportunities at this price point? Also help us with your take on the PSUs because they have been feeling the heat and do you believe that the PSUs have some headroom for recovery? Gurmeet Chadha: In absolute terms, there is a lot of selling in the market. Nobody really anticipated this kind of selling coming through and in a matter of a few weeks. So, almost $12-$13 billion is gone and the market has still absorbed quite a bit of it.

For very good reasons, most banks discourage people from talking about politics on the trading floor or in the office.  Even more than sports, religion or Bitcoin, it’s an area where really destructive bad blood can be created in a very short space of time.  Jamie Dimon knows this as well as anyone, having had to quickly apologize for making some ill-considered remarks about the Chinese Communist Party in his time.  So it’s unsurprising that, despite his normal willingness to talk about issues of the day, he has a firm policy of never endorsing Presidential candidates.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Prices of steel rebars, a key component for construction, have seen a rise in recent months and can see upward movement in the coming weeks as building activity picks post monsoon, experts said, raising margin concerns for real estate and infrastructure firms. The price increases are partly due to a supply shortage amid a production slump at state-owned Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), a major manufacturer of long steel, which is used to make rebars.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Despite the recent easing of tension between New Delhi and Beijing, the ghost of the 2020 Galwan clash is likely to hover for a while, as the implications of the border disengagement between the two countries is likely to unravel only slowly.