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Airtel has risen to 29.44% while that of the Mittal family has dipped to 23.7% after the telco's main controlling company, Bharti Telecom (BTL), recently strengthened its shareholding in India's second-largest telco.

Speaking at Investment Week's Funds to Watch 2024 event today (7 November), Calay said assets under management for active ETFs in Europe hit €45bn at the end of the third quarter, up from roughly €20bn in 2022.  Passive strategies as a whole remain a popular option among investors, as active managers continue to struggle with continuous outflows across all sectors including equities, fixed income and alternatives, she said.  According to Morningstar Direct, passive strategies in the UK gathered £3bn in assets during the third quarter of 2024. Global ETF flows set to surpass $1trn t...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It has been the highlight of most African leaders’ diplomatic calendar for nearly a quarter of a century. Ever since the inaugural Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) in Beijing in 2000, the triennial shindig has been treated as a barometer by analysts seeking clues about the evolving state of relations between Africa and its biggest trading partner.

Boutique bank Evercore’s Q3 results, which came out yesterday, were pretty good. Revenues were up, as was pay. Pay was possibly up too much, though.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tourism is back, at last. This year the number of trips abroad is expected to overtake levels reached in 2019.

Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines

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Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complicat...

In its Ratings Round-Up for August and September, Square Mile analysts argued that the KPC vehicle «has faced ongoing underperformance relative to its benchmark, and its net asset value has sat at a persistent discount to its share price, which has continued even as global equity markets have recovered». According to data from the Association of Investment Companies, the trust is currently trading at a 6.5% discount to net asset value. BlackRock Continental European Income fund retains Square Mile rating despite manager departure The board has spent the last year looking at a range...

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Chad Stahelski's 2014 action film John Wick lay in its simplicity and emotional depth. Keanu Reeves portrayed the titular character, who mourned his wife and sought solace with the puppy she gifted him. However, when a gang of Russian mobsters brutally kills the dog, Wick reawakens his lethal instincts, revealing his past as a top assassin. The film's unique twist was the Continental Hotel, a luxurious refuge for the world’s elite assassins, offering everything from medical care to an arsenal of weapons.

US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision today, Asian equities were mixed overnight on light volumes and a declining US dollar. For the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong and Chuseok, or Thanksgiving Day, in South Korea, there were closures. Banks, energy, insurance, and electric car companies led the stronger mainland mega capitalization equities. While BYD finished higher by +1.35%, CATL gained +1.58%. The consumer purchase subsidies gained by home appliance companies Midea, Haier, and Gree were +2.74%, +3.28%, and +3.26%, respectively. Based on above-average volumes, the National Team appeared active in their large and mega-cap equity ETFs, which contributed to the weakness of mid-and small-cap stocks. Also Read :Daylight saving time 2024: Date, rules, when is it ending?

PARIS—For 17 days this summer, the Paris Olympics turned into a factory of indelible images: Stephen Curry raining 3-pointers, Simone Biles soaring to gymnastics gold, and Celine Dion belting out hits on the Eiffel Tower. But nothing went more viral than a brief clip of an Australian woman who went by the name Raygun twisting around on the floor. Rachael Gunn, as it says on her passport, was the break dancer whose performance launched a thousand memes and earned her exactly zero votes from the judges the whole time she was in Paris.

BMW is lowering sales and earnings targets for the 2024 fiscal year, in a move the luxury German car maker said was partially triggered by hefty expenses of addressing a braking system recall that impacts more than 1.5 million vehicles worldwide

Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country

Asian Games to be staged in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, will not have a Games Village and the athletes will be accommodated in hotels and cruise ships instead. In his address during the 44th General Assembly of Olympic Council of Asiada here on Sunday, former Japan Olympic Committee president Tsunekazu Takeda, informed that continental showpiece to be co-hosted by the Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya will have no Olympic village. «We will not have the Games Village as the Games will be held in two prefectures. Instead we are trying our best to accommodate athletes and dignitaries in hotels and cruise ships,» Takeda said while briefing about the Games preparations. «We have arranged for cruise ships for 4,000 athletes and officials besides hotel rooms,» added Takeda, the vice president of 2026 Asian Games.

sports administrator Randhir Singh on Sunday became the first Indian to be elected as the president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) during the 44th General Assembly of the continental body here. A five-time Olympic shooter, Randhir was the lone eligible candidate for the OCA president's post. His tenure will run from 2024 till 2028, and his election was unanimous. The 77-year-old Randhir has been the OCA acting president since 2021, filling in for Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was handed a 15-year ban from sports administration in May this year over ethics breaches. Randhir, who held different administrative posts in Indian and Asian sports bodies, was officially named OCA president in the presence of Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and top sports leaders from all 45 countries of Asia.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania say they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network

The Burning Shore. Like most of his novels, it is set in the backdrop of the brutal yet beautiful continent of Africa. This one takes the reader into the desolate and dramatic wilderness of Namibia in 1917.

infrastructure projects in Africa may be over, analysts say, with Beijing seeking to shield itself from risky, indebted partners on the continent as it grapples with a slowing economy at home. Beijing for years dished out billions in loans for trains, roads and bridges in Africa that saddled participating governments with debts they often struggled to pay back. But experts say it is now opting for smaller loans to fund more modest development projects.