2024 Financial News

Cognizant Technology Solutions forecast third-quarter revenue above estimates on Wednesday as more businesses turn to the IT services provider to digitize their operations, sending its shares up more than 6% after the bell. The company also said CFO Jan Siegmund would retire in early 2024.

Spirited Away," is set to captivate audiences in London. The highly acclaimed production will grace the London Coliseum, the largest West End theater, for a thrilling 12-week run starting in April 2024. Director John Caird expressed his pride and delight in presenting the original Japanese stage production of «Spirited Away» at the Coliseum Theatre. The show, created in 2022, promises to transport British audiences into the magical world crafted by Hayao Miyazaki.

Congress leadership on Wednesday discussed the party's strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections with senior party leaders from Karnataka. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi were part of the discussions, where Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar, besides AICC general secretary in-charge for Karnataka Randeep Surjewala, were present.

Nickelodeon is set to join the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast with a unique telecast for kids, featuring special graphics, guest reporters and its iconic green slime. The initiative, in partnership with CBS Sports and the NFL, aims to entertain young audiences and families during the grand sports event. Scheduled to take place in 2024 from Las Vegas, Paramount Global's CBS will be the primary broadcaster for the much-awaited Super Bowl LVIII.

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PNG) won all six of their matches in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup East Asia Pacific (EAP) Qualifier and have earned a spot in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup to be played in the West Indies and United States of America (USA) in June 2024. This is the second time that PNG has qualified for a Men's T20 World Cup, as per an ICC press release.

Tom Daley has announced that he will come out of his retirement and return to diving at the request of his elder son. He aims at Paris 2024 Olympics.

Registration for Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2024, the national-level MBA entrance exam, has now begun. The test is scheduled to take place on Sunday, January 7, 2024. With its scores accepted by over 160+ prestigious management institutes across the country. For XAT 2024, the registration fee is Rs. 2100. However, candidates applying for XLRI programmes are required to pay an additional fee of Rs 200 each, according to an official release.

Kamala Harris urged Black Americans to vote and cast Republicans as extremists on everything from abortion, voting rights and gun reform. “Here’s what we need to do. Vote. It gets back to the voting,” Harris said Saturday at a gathering of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil-rights organisation, in Boston. Noting that Black voters had record turnout in 2020, Harris said that “it scared some people.” “It is by no coincidence that immediately thereafter you started seeing extremist so-called leaders passing laws restricting voting days, making it more difficult to vote,” she added. Since Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in 2020, supporters of the former president have stepped up efforts to reform the US election system, with several states introducing new rules restricting voting and redrawing electoral maps. Still, the Supreme Court this year gave an unexpected boost to the Voting Rights Act enacted in 1965 to protect minority rights at the polls by upholding a decision that requires a second majority Black District in Alabama. Harris, 58, has addressed the NAACP’s national convention for two straight years. With the president ramping up his re-election campaign, Harris the first woman, Black and Asian vice president has become a key envoy in the outreach to Black voters, who Biden credits for his 2020 victory.

BOGOTA (Reuters) — Colombia's government on Saturday presented a budget proposal worth 502.6 trillion pesos ($127.8 billion) for 2024 to Congress, 19% greater than this year, the Finance Ministry said, an amount that would be the country's highest if approved.

The 2024 T20 World Cup will be co-hosted by the US and West Indies is likely to be held between June 4 to 30 next year, spread across 10 venues. According to a report by ESPN Cricinfo, ICC has started inspecting some shortlisted venues in US and West Indies.

With under nine months to go until bitcoin (BTC)’s next halving event, excitement is growing about a potential rally to fresh all-time highs.

The update revealed the creation of an investor committee to be chaired by Jamie Drummond-Smith, a former Deloitte partner who oversaw the company voluntary arrangement of Arcadia Group as interim chair.

cargo handling capacity at ports is expected to get a fillip from 2024 with commissioning of some facilities at Vizhinjam in Kerala and beginning of work at Vadhavan in Maharashtra. The first stage of the Vizhinjam Port is nearing completion and it will serve as the country’s first mega transhipment container terminal, said officials. The port’s capacity in the first phase will be one million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) or 24 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its latest MPV models, including the EQV, V-Class, V-Class Marco Polo, eVito, and Vito variants, showcasing a sharpened and stylish design. The front profile has undergone significant updates with new LED headlights, a revised grille design, and updated bumpers, complemented by more aerodynamic alloy wheel options. Inside the vehicles, there's a completely redesigned dashboard that exudes a sense of premium luxury.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged in the assembly that the opposition BJP was planning to create disturbances by creating division among the people to show the state in a bad light before next year's general elections. Speaking at the state assembly during a discussion, Banerjee claimed she has information that the BJP's planning was chalked out during a recent meeting held in New Delhi with senior leaders of the party's state unit. She claimed that the saffron party has also planned to fund «any party that can divide the votes of the Trinamool Congress».

The Congressional Budget Office reports that economic and job growth so far this year has been stronger than forecast in February, but an updated outlook sees parts of the economy as weakening through 2024

RBI) easing monetary policy by three months to August 2024, as inflation remains a concern and global central banks demonstrate few signs of much-awaited easing. Overnight indexed swap (OIS) rates, the principal tool for hedging interest rate risk in India, have climbed sharply since the RBI's last policy in June and now suggest that the central bank would only lower the repo rate in August of next year as against the earlier pricing that pointed towards policy easing at the beginning of the next fiscal year. A rise in OIS rates typically reflects market expectations of tighter financial conditions.

Tata Steel would have to decide on the future of its UK operations within the next year as some assets are nearing the end of their operational life, managing director, TV Narendran told Economic Times. Noting that the government has also visited their sites, Narendran says "Hopefully, we will come to a conclusion in the next few months." Elaborating further, he cited that negotiations got delayed over the past two-three years due to multiple governments coming to power.

The world’s biggest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has announced a sponsorship deal with the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics