New York Financial News

By Lewis Krauskopf

Losses in the utility, financial and telecommunications sectors weighed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in late morning trading as Canada’s main stock index moved lower, while U.S. stock markets were mixed.

the future of self-driving cars and shares the most important thing his mentor Barry Diller taught him. What’s the first thing you do after waking up? I sprint to the coffee machine to turn it on. I still haven’t figured out that timer thing, so I physically push the button to get as much coffee as quickly as possible.

By Saeed Azhar

Goldman Sachs is considering selling part of its wealth management division, the RIA unit formerly known as United Capital Financial Partners, in a bid to shift its focus back to the ultra-rich, it said Monday according to a Reuters report.

Still haven’t seen “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer”

Mithun Sacheti founded online jewellery selling platform CaratLane in 2008 along with Srinivasa Gopalan. On Saturday, he scored one of the most successful exits by an Indian consumer internet entrepreneur when he sold his 27% stake to watchmaker Titan for Rs 4,621 crore. Sacheti, 44, first brought the Tata group company in as a shareholder in 2016, when an existing investor, New York-based investment fund Tiger Global, sold its 62% stake in CaratLane to Titan in a deal that valued the startup at Rs 536 crore.

The Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini has filed a response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit, seeking the dismissal of allegations over unregistered securities.

The Clinton Global Initiative 2023 will convene “leaders, innovators and dreamers” – ranging from World Bank President Ajay Banga and The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Philip E

Google, the parent company of YouTube, responded to a report that suggested YouTube advertisers are sourcing data from children viewing videos on the platform. 

Sanjiv Mehta, who hung up his boots in June this year, is enjoying his retirement. The former HUL boss recently attended an orchestra, conducted by globally-acclaimed Parsi conductor Zubin Mehta. Taking to the professional networking platform LinkedIn, the sexagenarian said that he was fortunate enough to witness the Mumbai-born conductor's epic skills on stage.

ChatGPT and the newest version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It’s the “shoggoth": an amorphous monster bubbling with tentacles and eyes, described in “At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft’s horror novel of 1931.

India Day Parade’ outside India kicked off on Sunday afternoon in New York City, with the celebration witnessing huge floats and marching groups comprising members of the Indian-American community. Supporting the spectacle were several members of the diaspora including spiritual Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Jacqueline Fernandez and New York City Mayor Eric Adam. The parade began at 12 pm (local time) at 38th Street and Madison Avenue in New York.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Following weak global market sentiments, Indian stock market ended lower on second day in a row on Friday. NSE Nifty lost 55 points and ended at 19,310 levels, BSE Sensex shed 202 points and closed at 64,948 mark whereas Bank Nifty index corrected 40 points and finished at 43,851 levels.

US insurance broker giant Marsh & McLennan is nearing an agreement to acquire Australia’s Honan Insurance, according to people familiar with the matter.

Coinbase, a leading crypto exchange, published a report titled 'United States of Crypto: New York' on August 8, 2023. According to the report, the swift adoption of crypto and web3 technologies in the state, with nearly one-fifth of New Yorkers owning cryptocurrency, signals a promising future for crypto in New York.

MUMBAI : Three years after Valli Arunachalam, a New York-based nuclear scientist and daughter of former Murugappa Group chairman M.V. Murugappan, levelled gender discrimination allegations against the boards of the group’s firms, the estranged family members reached an out-of-court settlement, the terms of which remained undisclosed.

Taiwan's Vice President William Lai said election next year is a choice between democracy and autocracy, the Vice President added after China carried out military drills around the island in anger at his visit this month to the United States. Vice President William Lai, the front-runner in polls to be Taiwan's next president at elections in January, made brief stopovers in the US, prompting fury in Beijing, which views him as a dangerous separatist given China's territorial claims over the island. The Defence ministry of Taiwan's said Sunday morning that in the past 24 hours 25 Chinese air force planes had crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line, which had served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides until Chinese military aircraft began regularly crossing it a year ago.

Ron Cephas-Jones passed away on August 19 at the age of 66. Popular for his role in the NBC television series This Is Us, he had two Emmy Awards wins to his credit as well as a Tony Award nomination. However, he was more prolific as a stage actor, being seen in several William Shakespeare play adaptations. Ron Cephas-Jones is the father of original Broadway ‘Hamilton’ actor Jasmine Cephas-Jones.

ALSO READ: Valli Arunachalam's fight for her rights against gender bias in Murugappa Group. Explained The eldest daughter of former Murugappa group chairman, late MV Murugappan, Valli Arunachalam is a New York-settled nuclear scientist and has expertise in semiconductor technologies. She has a Master’s and MPhil in Nuclear Physics from the University of Madras in 1988, and a Ph.D.

One of the fastest-growing asset managers in the United States is targeting Australia’s $3.4 trillion superannuation industry, tasking two executives with tapping into the country’s institutional investment community and exposing it to the North American credit market and real estate sector.