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In Pershing Square Holding's (PSH) interim results published on Thursday (15 August), he said that since pulling the offer, the trust's discount has widened, after «substantially» narrowing during the IPO offer period. Although he did not provide any further details on the plans to revamp the US IPO, Ackman said the team is «limited in what we can share about these plans due to regulatory reasons», but will keep shareholders informed about the number of «strategic initiatives». Ackman's US IPO withdrawal casts doubt on lower performance fees for Pershing Square Holdings The launch ...

Hedge funds, pensions and banks continued to lavish capital into exchange-traded funds that invest directly in Bitcoin, as more traditional investors embrace the asset class that US regulators begrudgingly helped push into the mainstream at the beginning of the year. Among the most well-known buyers that have emerged are hedge funds like Millennium Management, which held shares in at least five Bitcoin ETFs, according to a Bloomberg analysis of second-quarter filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm, which has $68 billion in assets under management, trimmed its stakes in the ETFs significantly from the prior quarter but remained as the top holder for most of the funds, including BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust.

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Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the list prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs

Japanese stocks are leading gains in world markets after Wall Street close to its record heights as data showed the U.S. economy is holding up better than expected

At 2:37 pm IST, BTC surged 1% over the past 24 hours, trading just below $59,000. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, also gained 2.5%.

Deutsche Bank has appointed Manik Chhabra as its head of global corporate coverage for India and Sri Lanka, starting August 19, sources aware of the development said. Chhabra is moving to the German bank from US-based lender Citibank where he held many senior corporate banking roles over the last 22 years. He leaves Citibank as India head for mid corporates. A Deutsche Bank spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy Michael Faulkender says there is nothing changing to cause a cutback on the inflationary pressures on 'Kudlow.'

Samir Arora, Founder, Helios Capital, says we cannot let go of pockets of flow by just believing that we are getting Rs 20,000 crore a month. The SIP numbers are good, but they are not what you think are. The actual net flows are not Rs 20,000 crore or more per month, they are only Rs 10,000 crore. For some reason, we are only talking about gross flows. When things go bad, things will become very bad if we ignore one big pool of money and more than that, ignore valuations and ignore bad news beyond a point. So one has to balance it. We have done it. I am sure fund managers are doing it. Everybody is saying valuations are expensive, and the markets are due for a correction but look at the ability of the market to shrug off bad news, what it did on election day, the Budget day, and what it has done post that black Monday 10 days ago. Samir Arora: Correct. One of course is flows, but it would look out of place if we were doing it independent of the world. So, basically, the mothership which is the US is also doing the same, not related to the budget or elections, but in general reacting to any bad phases and so it has recovered so well, Japan has recovered. But the FII flows have been quite negative and I think that is because these tax hikes have become untenable. Just to give you one number, the MSCI India Index in dollar terms is up over 17 percent year to date, whereas a $10 billion index is up 13%. So, over time, this is going to hurt and there will be some loss of FII investments in India.

Nikkei share average climbed nearly 3% on Friday and notched its best week in more than four years, as strong U.S. retail sales data soothed fears of a recession in the world's largest economy and Japan's top trading partner. The Nikkei closed 3.6% higher at 38,062.67, locking in its second-largest daily gain for the year, while the broader Topix finished up about 3% at 2,678.60.

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The companies, in a filing disclosed Thursday, have asked the Commerce Department to apply the duties right away, amid a surge in imports from Vietnam and Thailand. An existing trade case already poses the risk of anti-dumping and countervailing duties, but the new filing raises the prospect of duties being imposed even before a final decision in the case. If imports have surged during a trade investigation, the government can determine that “critical circumstances” exist — a finding that paves the way for such retroactive tariffs. Companies importing panels and cells would need to post cash deposits while awaiting a final decision in the trade case.

US lawmakers want the Biden administration to probe China's TP-Link Technology Co and its affiliates for potential national security risks from their widely used WiFi routers over fears they could be used in cyber attacks against the U.S. Republican Representative John Moolenaar and Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, who lead the House Select Committee on China, requested a Commerce Department probe in a Tuesday letter seen by Reuters. According to research firm IDC, TP-Link, which focuses on the consumer market, is the top seller of WiFi routers internationally by unit volume.

A dual U.S.-Russian citizen has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison for treason after authorities learned she donated just over $50 to a charity supporting Ukraine.

Reliance Industries among 3 other companies are expected to be in focus today as they have set August 19 as the record date for determining shareholders eligible for dividend payments. This means today is the last day to buy shares of these companies to qualify for the announced dividends.

Lawyers for Walt Disney World are attempting to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit over claims that the husband of a woman who died as a result of an allergic reaction cannot sue the company because he signed up for a free trial of Disney+.

TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app's ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. assets or face a ban. TikTok, which has sued to overturn the law, said the Justice Department has made factual errors in the case. The department's lawyers said last month that the app poses a national security risk by allowing the Chinese government to collect the data of Americans and covertly manipulate what content they see. TikTok said on Thursday it is undisputed that the app's content recommendation engine and user data are stored in the US on cloud servers operated by Oracle and that content moderation decisions that affect US users are made in the US.

FMCG) and consumption-related shares, with global macroeconomic volatility in the shape of weak US economic data, a declining Yen, and rising geopolitical tensions dulling the allure of growth and momentum stocks. However, money managers and analysts see limited short-term upside for FMCG stocks due to high valuations but recommend existing investors hold them for the long term. «The current outperformance of FMCG stocks can be attributed to the strengthening rural economy and investors gravitating towards defensive stocks amid global uncertainties and high valuations in many other sectors,» said George Thomas, equity fund manager at Quantum AMC.

Americans stepped up spending at retailers last month by the most in a year and a half, easing concerns that the economy might be weakening under the pressure of higher prices and elevated interest rates

Breakout stocks to buy or sell: Despite strong global market sentiments on the US Fed rate cut buzz, the Indian stock market remained flat on Wednesday. The Nifty 50 index finished marginally higher at 24,143, the BSE Sensex went up 149 points and closed at 79,105, whereas the Bank Nifty index went off 104 points and ended at 49,727. Cash market volumes on the NSE were 8.1 per cent lower than the previous session.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, another sign that the job market remains resilient in the face of high interest rates