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Citigroup’s chief investment officer for its wealth division, David Bailin, is leaving the bank after 15 years.

Rajasthan Royals as the opener scored 24 runs off 31 deliveries on Saturday. The young batsman's slow start meant that Rajasthan Royals could not get off to a good start and were on the verge of losing the match when Shimron Hetmyer's 27-run knock (off 10 balls) rescued them and pushed them over the winning line. Former Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa raised concerns about RR's bizzare strategy, stating that the franchise does something like this every season.

ALSO READ: IPL 2024: Tristan Stubbs lauds DC skipper Rishabh Pant, says 'He's a gifted player' Pant had called for a review for a wide ball on the 4th over of the match with Ishant Sharma bowling a wide down the leg side against Devdutt Padikkal, as the on-field umpire immediately gave it a wide. Unhappy with umpire's decision, the Capitals' skipper got into an argument with the umpire.

TCS Q4 Results Preview: Revenue, PAT may see modest growth; commentary on near-term demand key monitorable In Q3FY24, TCS reported a 4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in its consolidated revenue. In constant currency (CC) terms, the company's revenue rose 1.7 per cent YoY.

MI vs RCB 2024 IPL: Hardik Pandya must brace for some fresh criticism for his captaincy decisions as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) finisher Dinesh Karthik slammed another explosive half-century to power his team's score to 196/8 after 20 overs. India's veteran player Mohammad Kaif made an interesting observation while sitting in the commentary box as he observed that Rohit Sharma asked Hardik Pandya multiple times to keep a third man against Dinesh Karthik, but the Mumbai Indians skipper didn't listen, and the RCB finisher slammed three boundaries in the same area.

Q4 results preview: IT sector likely to report muted revenue growth with stable margins; all eyes on FY25 guidance Apart from the key numbers, trends on deal winds, attrition and management commentary on near-term demand will be under focus. Brokerage firm Motilal Oswal Financial Services expects TCS' deal pipeline to remain resilient in the UK regions, but the US and Europe may continue to stay weak. As per Motilal's estimates, TCS may report a 2.2 per cent QoQ growth in constant currency (CC) terms while EBIT margin may be stable, as operational improvements should be compensated by low margins in the India business.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) in partnership with the Institute for Human Development (IHD) recently released the India Employment Report 2024, which has a special focus on youth employment. The report, a careful analysis of the job situation in India, created its usual set of headlines. Unfortunately, many of these headlines were mischievous, detracting from many important characteristics of India’s improving labour market.

The average prices of cement are down 5-6% in the March quarter as compared with Oct-Dec, with prices trending lower for five consecutive months between November and March.

CSK vs KKR IPL 2024: “Old friends meeting up and exchanging a pleasantry or two - that’s what makes these games so special," said the commentator as Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni hugged each other and whole-heartedly smiled. It was after the Chennai Super Kings (CSK)’s win against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on April 8. However, for the uninitiated, Gambhir and Dhoni could be anything else, but they are definitely not known to be “old friends".

Delhi government on Monday slammed Lt Governor VK Saxena over a letter he wrote to the MHA in which he accused its ministers of not attending a meeting called by him, and questioned the role of the LG's office in the subjects transferred to the AAP government. The LG Secretariat, in a letter to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), said the Delhi ministers refused to attend a meeting called by Saxena to discuss the functioning of their ministries following the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy and is now lodged in Tihar jail here.

ALSO READ: CJI Chandrachud on probe agencies: India must re-think its investigative framework Chandrachud was speaking at the Centenary Year Celebration of the Nagpur High Court Bar Association on Friday. Here's what he said: In his latest speech, the Chief Justice of India cautioned lawyers against allowing political interest to supersede loyalty to the court and the Constitution.

Chandrachud said here on Friday. Office-bearers and members of the bar should not forget while reacting to judicial decisions that they are officers of the court and not laypersons, he said. The CJI was speaking at the centenary year celebration of the High Court Bar Association of Nagpur. The judiciary has time and again risen to the occasion to assert its independence and non-partisanship, Justice Chandrachud said.

The estate of George Carlin has agreed to settle a lawsuit over a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic’s style and material for a new special

IPL 2024 season has now entered its second month with fifteen matches been played till now. There have been record breaking feats, eye-catching batting and bowling performances, athletic fielding and most importantly, the celebration of cricket in all forms, in these matches of the Indian Premier League played till now.

₹50 to reach ₹68,370 per 10 grams in the domestic market on Tuesday, influenced by subdued patterns in the global markets, according to HDFC Securities. During the last trading session, the valuable metal concluded at ₹68,420 per 10 grams.

Sensex gained 363.20 points, or 0.49%, to close at 74,014.55, while the Nifty 50 settled 135.10 points, or 0.61%, higher at 22,462.00. “The market is expected to continue its positive momentum but the journey could be volatile on the back of elections and Q4 earnings this month. Now all eyes will be on RBI monetary policy due this Friday where status quo is expected but commentary would be keenly watched," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.

ICICI Securities, adding that athleisure remains a pain point for Page, contributing more than 30% to revenues Recall that in Q3, Page’s revenue grew marginally by 2.4% year-on-year, after remaining flat to negative in the previous four quarters. Volume growth of about 5% was driven by the innerwear segment, while athleisure wear continued to be a laggard. Now, if the core issue of excessive inventory persists in the athleisure segment, it could delay a meaningful earnings recovery.

Federal Reserve's commentary and the course of the dollar may dominate global market discussions, but a set of India-focused investors are moving their rupee trading calls to the Chinese yuan from the greenback, with Mint Road seen smoothening swings in exchange rates involving New Delhi's second-largest trade partner. «I have also noticed that since the beginning of the year, there has been a lot of interest in buying Indian rupees, not against the US dollar but against some of the other Asian currencies, especially the RMB (Chinese currency),» said Patrick Law, Head of Asia Pacific Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities Trading, Bank of America.

In 2022, I wrote a column asking why Canada couldn’t be as smart and successful as Australia. Two years later, by almost any metric, Australia continues to outperform us economically, while maintaining its social democracy and generous welfare programs.

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Gautam Duggad, Head Of Research — Institutional Equities, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, says: “The consumer discretionary sector holds a significant position in our model portfolio, with eight consumer stocks, predominantly of a discretionary nature. The second sector of interest is hotels, which has ample room for growth after emerging from a decade-long downtrend. Similarly, the real estate sector, which witnessed a prolonged downturn from 2008-09 until recently, is now showing signs of a more enduring uptrend. ” What is the outlook when it comes to the IT space? Does that cautious stance continues due to uncertainties? If so, would the strategy be to look at a mix of large and midcaps or would you stick to just the largecaps? Gautam Duggad: As far as IT is concerned, we are running an underweight stance in our model portfolio. While the stocks have underperformed, especially the largecaps because if you look at the prices of some of the largecaps today, they are still trailing the prices that they had in October 21. Now, with Accenture's guidance yesterday and commentary, the softness can continue to prevail and we might see a little more earnings downgrade.