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(Reuters) — Nielsen named company insider Karthik Rao as its chief executive officer, effective immediately, the market research company said on Thursday.

KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 22% on Thursday, surprising analysts who had been expecting it to try to tame inflation and support the rupee with an increase of at least 150 basis points.

Investing.com — U.S. futures traded higher Thursday, as investors digested the rise in headline consumer inflation ahead of more economic data to provide more clues of likely Federal Reserve interest rate moves.

Suriname for the first time in its history will see offshore oil drilling in its waters after French company TotalEnergies announces a $9 billion project expected to boost the impoverished country’s economy and ease austerity measures imposed by the In...

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Moderna rise; American Airlines, Spirit Airlines fall

With just over 24 hours left before a strike deadline, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain says offers from Detroit automakers aren’t enough and the union is getting ready to strike

Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz is stepping down from the company’s board of directors

Google is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from its recruiting team globally. However, Google has not given any exact number of people who have been asked to go.

Exxon Mobil issued its first public statement that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change in 2006, following years of denial. In public forums, the company argued that the risk of serious impact on the environment justified global action. Yet behind closed doors, Exxon took a very different tack: Its executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business, according to internal Exxon documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with former executives.

New Delhi: Toy retailer Hamleys, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., has inaugurated its first retail store in Italy with franchisee Giochi Preziosi S.P.A (GP), a prominent player in the European country’s toy manufacturing and distribution industry.. Under the terms of the franchise agreement, GP has secured the exclusive rights to operate Hamleys stores throughout Italy, Reliance Brands Ltd. (RBL), that acquired the British toy retailer in 2019, said in a statement on Thursday Hamleys has made its debut in Italy with a store in Milan at the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.

₹1,000 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 8.56 million shares. Prabhat Agrawal, promoter, managing director, and CEO, will offload up to 534,082 shares; OrbiMed Asia III Mauritius Ltd, a private equity firm, will offload up to 7.5 million shares; Prem Sethi, promoter and whole-time director will offload up to 353,302 shares; and other shareholders will offload up to 170,213 shares.

As Bitcoin continues its oscillating dance on the charts, it gives subtle hints of a resurgence. The premier cryptocurrency currently trades at $26,244, marking a nearly 1.25% rise on Thursday. 

Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president turned climate crusader, says Big Oil and the banks backing it still have huge financial incentives to stick with fossil fuels, even though their decision to do so is the leading cause of the climate crisis.

Citi has announced a significant change to its organizational model and its management structure.

Hamleys, owned by Reliance Brands Limited has opened first retail store in Italy with franchisee Giochi Preziosi SPA (GP), a leading player in Italy's toy manufacturing and distribution industry. Under the terms of the franchise agreement, GP has the rights to operate Hamleys stores throughout Italy. The first store is situated in Milan, at the renowned Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and will be followed by the launch of a flagship store in Rome. “Guided by our vision — crafting memories through the joy of play, we are looking forward to becoming a centerpiece store in the popular shopping and tourist destination of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan,” said Sumeet Yadav, CEO, Hamleys Global. Hamleys was founded in 1760 by William Hamley and acquired by Reliance Brands Limited (RBL) in 2019. Currently it has a footprint of 191 stores spread across 15 countries. Hamleys continues to expand into newer markets, most recently the Balkans, with its first store in Albania and Kosovo, and further its reach in existing territories like India and Middle East with a store in Qatar. Spread across 13,300 sq.

Apple in 2017 can be considered symbolic of how the company grew after its visionary co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs' death in 2011. Feeling creatively unfulfilled, Imran Chaudhri, a top software designer who had joined Apple in 1995 and was part of the teams that developed the iPhone’s multitouch technology and later Apple Watch interface, started planning his exit. He told his bosses he would leave in a few months after collecting equity shares that he was due to earn as part of his compensation, a normal practice at Apple. A month before leaving, Chaudhri wrote a farewell email to colleagues announcing his planned exit.

₹400 crore in May via multiple funds of Convergent Finance LLP, an investment management company led by Harsha Raghavan, besides ₹30 crore from individual investors, Agilitas said. Its founding team comprises Ganguly, who quit Puma India in August, Atul Bajaj, Puma India’s former executive director for sales and operations, and Amit Prabhu, former chief financial officer, Puma India.

₹5,923 per gram. The government, in consultation with the RBI, has decided to offer a discount of ₹50 per gram less than the nominal value to investors applying online and making the payment against the application through digital mode. For such investors, the issue price of gold bond will be ₹5,873 per gram.

Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both of which caused disruption in energy markets. There have been speculations as who will be new boss.

White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients on Thursday to discuss refugee resettlement and sponsorship programs, a White House official said. The CEOs will include Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Walmart's Doug McMillon, Pfizer's Albert Bourla, HP's Enrique Lores and others. They are part of a council of leaders affiliated with Welcome.US, a group dedicated to helping support refugees in the United States.

MagicBricks. In the fiscal year 2022-23, the National Capital Region (NCR) emerged as a hotspot for PG accommodations, accounting for 24 per cent of both the demand and supply of PG rental spaces. Following closely behind was Bengaluru, with a demand-supply share of 23 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively.