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 'Barron's Roundtable' discusses reports that Gen Z members are aggressive about wanting to retire.

Berkshire Hathaway touching the $1 trillion mcap. This massive market capitalization was earlier unheard of for nanotech companies, but Berkshire Hathaway has made it possible as the world's first company to achieve this target.

(Bloomberg) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed setting up new talks between their presidents in meetings aimed at managing the two nations’ difficult relationship.

The rapid growth of the digital asset market has helped a near-doubling in the number of crypto millionaires, according to a new report by Henley & Partners.

US Treasury yields climbed after resilient economic reports prompted traders to slightly trim their expectations for the scope of Federal Reserve easing this year.

Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, reported another quarterly drop in sales as Americans pull back on purchases of appliances and other consumer electronics gadgets to focus on essentials

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the U.S. labor market remains healthy in the face of high interest rates

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The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said in an upgrade of its initial assessment

Donald Trump's airy comments around the state of California and how he could have won there, has created a frenzy on social media. In a TV interview with popular host and personality Dr. Phil, Trump claimed that if the mail-in ballots were replaced with Jesus Christ for doing the vote counting, the former President could have easily won the elections there.

Return Prime aims to achieve a $3 million ARR and triple its revenue in the next 12 months by expanding its market share in the United States, Europe, and India. Over the next year, the company aims to help merchants generate more than $100 million in additional revenue. “We believe that our advanced return management solutions can address the pressing challenges faced by ecommerce merchants worldwide. Our goal is to help merchants not only manage returns efficiently but also turn them into opportunities for revenue generation,” said Shashwat Swaroop, co-founder of Return Prime.

Beijing, on a visit with the stated aim of keeping communications open between the two powers, as the relationship between China and the United States has become increasingly tense in recent years. Sullivan, on his first trip to China in his capacity as the main adviser to President Joe Biden on U.S. national security issues, has met with senior Chinese officials including Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a senior general of the Central Military Commission. China and the U.S. have become increasingly at odds over various issues, starting with a trade war dating back to 2018, and which now encompasses global security matters, such as China's claims over the South China Sea, and industrial policy on things like automobile and solar panel manufacturing. Sullivan's trip this week is meant to keep the tensions from growing further.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services, L&T Tech’s new strategy may not alter its growth path in the short term, but it could open up new avenues for growth, especially in hitherto weak areas such as mobility—a fast-growing segment for its peers. Against this backdrop, the company’s renewed strategy is a step in the right direction. However, the targets seem ambitious.

United States is pushing China to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks, seeing a «limited opportunity» for early two-way conversations on the superpowers' approach to the issue, a senior Biden administration official said. The renewed U.S. push for nuclear talks comes as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met top Chinese officials in Beijing to try and resolve gaping differences on a broad range of issues. «We saw some limited opportunity to open, at least the beginnings of conversation on the subject in the last months, but it's been fits and starts, and I think it will continue to be fits and starts,» said the official, who sought anonymity because the matter is a sensitive one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan

Bitcoin gained nearly 1% in the past 24 hours but remains below the $60,000 mark. The global crypto market cap increased by 0.63% to $2.1 trillion. As of 12:09 pm IST, Bitcoin was trading at $59,724, up nearly 1%, while Ethereum rose by 3.6% to $2,557.

«The demand commentary that we hear from most of the companies is that things are stabilising. There are green shoots, especially in banking and BFSI generally is a lead indicator for the broad-based recovery in the sector,» says Abhishek Kumar, JM Financial Institutional Securities. Could you just give us a gist of what has actually been driving this kind of a rally that we are seeing in the IT Index because the EPS upgrades are not that much to support this kind of rally? Abhishek Kumar: You are right, earning upgrades have not come through yet but if we look at the last few quarters, there were earning downgrades consistently and that seems to have stopped, so that is kind of a first milestone in inflection. So, the worst seems to be behind the sector.

Asian shares are mostly lower as market attention turns to upcoming data on the U.S. economy after Nvidia reported its financial results

Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will sit down Thursday for their first major television interview of their presidential campaign as the duo travels in southeast Georgia on a bus tour. The interview with CNN's Dana Bash will give Harris a chance to quell criticism that she has eschewed uncontrolled environments, while also giving her a fresh platform to define her campaign and test her political mettle ahead of an upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump set for September 10. But it also carries risk as her team tries to build on momentum from the ticket shakeup following Joe Biden's exit and last week's Democratic National Convention. Joint interviews during an election year are a fixture in politics; Biden and Harris, Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama and Biden — all did them at a similar point in the race. The difference is those other candidates had all done solo interviews, too. Harris hasn't yet done an in-depth interview since she became her party's standard bearer five weeks ago, though she did sit for several while she was still Biden's running mate.

billionaire every five days in the last one year and took the total count of US dollar billionaires to cross the triple-century mark for the first time. The 2024 Hurun India Rich List shows that India now has 334 billionaires by adding 75 compared to the last year.

Breakout stocks to buy or sell: Following a rally in the US stock market, the Indian stock market ended higher for the tenth straight session on Wednesday. The Nifty 50 index climbed to a new peak of 25,129.60, finished 34 points, and closed at 25,052. The BSE Sensex added 73 points and closed at 81,785, whereas the Bank Nifty index ended 134 points lower at 51,143.