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Axis Securities has initiated coverage on Prestige Estates with a target price of Rs 2,195 supported by the company’s diversified business model, execution supremacy, robust order book and strengthening annuity streams. The real estate business is highly cyclical and susceptible to various geographical risks. Prestige Group has mitigated these risks by diversifying across verticals and geographies and is better positioned to emerge strong during challenging times.

In a world where billionaires launch into space for fun, Sam Altman of OpenAI fame has upped the game of one-upmanship by throwing a number into the universe that has made economists and mathematicians do a collective face-palm: $7 trillion. That is not a typo. It is seven trillion US dollars, a number so large that it’s practically a black hole in the world of finance that makes most tech-startup pitches look like lemonade-stand business plans.

₹9,164 crore was 22% below consensus estimates. This was largely due to a 6.3% year-on-year drop in its cement realization, a measure of pricing, as the hunger for sales volumes continued to keep the sector’s prices muted. But the fall in Shree’s realizations was higher than what analysts had estimated and sharper than that of some peers.

Bengaluru a 'Metro' status. Union Minister of State for Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary, explained on Tuesday that under Rule 2A of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, a distinction is maintained between the cities of Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, and Chennai, and other places concerning special allowance for residential accommodation under section 10(13A) of the Income-tax Act, 1961. The four designated metropolitan cities have a 50 per cent salary consideration for computing exemption limits, while other cities, including Bengaluru, have a 40 per cent limit, a Bangalore Mirror report stated.

1,000 kilometres of dedicated and mainly electrified tracks between Windsor and Quebec City, with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ont., Ottawa, Laval, Que., Montreal and Trois-Rivières, Que.If it goes ahead, it will be the biggest Canadian infrastructure and transportation project in the 60 years since the St. Lawrence Seaway was built.

1. Samsung 7 kg Fully-Automatic Top Loading Washing Machine The Samsung Fully Automatic WA70A4002GS/TL Imperial is a top-loading washing machine with a 7kg capacity. It features a powerful motor and multiple wash programs to handle various types of laundry.

Barclays’ released its second quarter results today. They don’t look bad. Profits rose 27% on last year and the business is now generating a passable 9.6% return on equity, which is better than the 7.7% it generated in Q2 last year or the 5.6% it mustered in Q2 2022.

One of the warning signs that an investment banking franchise is in trouble is that memos start going round the office telling everyone that business class travel is being curtailed . It tends to be followed by strict limits on client entertainment, or even the banning of particularly popular and expensive restaurants.

₹334 crore in Q1 of FY25 from ₹268 crore at the end of the March quarter. Sumant Kathpalia, CEO of IndusInd Bank said during its Q1 earnings call that some stress will be seen in the card business in the next two quarters. “If you look at the 60-plus and 30-plus DPDs, the 30-plus looks 7% right now.

Investment banking revenues may be recovering, but banks' cost-cutting days are never done. And as banks cast about for costs to remove in a world where deals are recovering, guess who's in the firing line? Not people in the front office. 

digital transformation deals after about two years. The new contracts, however, contain cost-saving provisions. Several transformation deals announced by homegrown IT firms in the last 4-5 months have originated from the Nordic region. These include Infosys’ deal with Denmark’s TDC Net, a digital infrastructure and connectivity provider; HCLTech’s deal with Finland’s Oriola Corporation, a health and wellbeing company; and TCS’ multi-million-dollar contracts with digital connectivity and communications provider Nuuday and Ramboll—both from Denmark. Infosys and Wipro also secured deals from Sweden’s Ikea and Finland’s Nokia.

University of Maryland economist Peter Morici discusses whether Wall Street investors believe Bidens economy is improving on Varney & Co.

It’s been rough sledding for the S&P 500 in the past month. The benchmark index is down over 4 percent as questions about the strength of the economy have begun to rein in those rampaging bulls.

CVS Health has chopped its 2024 forecast for a third time as the health care giant continues to struggle with high utilization in its health insurance business

Osaic Institutions Inc., which works with financial advisors at banks and credit unions, disclosed last month that it had added Fidelity’s National Financial Services Inc. as a custodian of the advisory side of its business. The firm already works with Pershing as a custodian.

Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has launched a new alcohol-free perfume for dogs called ‘Fefé’ in honor of Domenico Dolce’s poodle, but not all vets and pet owners agree it’s safe or appropriate

Reliance Industries has reduced nearly 11%, or 42,000 people, of its workforce in FY24 compared to a year ago, indicating cost-efficiency drives and reduced hiring especially in retail which also saw store closures and slower expansion rate. RIL's employee strength stood at 347,000 in FY24 compared to 389,000 in FY23. The number of new recruits was slashed by more than a third to 170,000, according to its latest annual report. «The new lines of businesses (at Reliance) have matured now and have significant support from digital initiatives. Now they are a stage to better manage the operations with optimum strength. It doesn't mean that the numbers (of headcount) won't increase when new business opportunities emerge and strategy changes. They understand very well how to drive cost management and efficiency,» said an analyst with a leading broking firm who tracks Reliance Industries, but did not wish to be named.

Disney returned to a profitable third quarter as its combined streaming business started making money for the first time, along with a very strong showing in theaters for the movie “Inside Out 2.”

Microsoft is joining cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in fighting back against criticism from Delta Air Lines

Reliance Industries Ltd wants to be the partner of choice for leading global climate technology and product companies, the telecoms-to-petrochemicals conglomerate said in its fiscal 2024 annual report released on Wednesday. Over the next 12 months, RIL said, its focus would be to bring onstream new-energy manufacturing facilities, operate them efficiently and start developing renewable energy (RE) generation projects. RIL's new-energy division will commission its first module and cell manufacturing train in the ongoing fiscal. Solar panels manufactured at its Jamnagar facility have obtained BIS certification. «Work on RE development has commenced and Reliance has been allotted land in Gujarat. We aim to become the largest RE developer in India,» RIL said in the report.

Narendra Modi urged the private sector to step up its efforts in job creation and investment. Earlier this year, Nirmala Sitharaman had admonished the private sector for not scaling up investment, despite a generous corporate tax cut in 2019. A similar warning was sounded in FM's latest budget speech to states when she informed them that exclusive dependence on the Centre for large infrastructure projects was untenable because of the impact on the cost of borrowing on borrowers down the line. The appeal, admonishment and warning stem from a similar concern. GoI can't be expected to run the economy single-handedly without participation by all stakeholders. It should be an 'enabler' by making contributions on the supply side through improved physical infra, investing in human capital and through better governance to improve the ease of doing business. Addition of permanent assets in a country is commonly measured as gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), typically stated as a percentage of GDP. GFCF normally rises during periods of sustained economic growth and is lower when the economy slows. In the Indian context, GFCF as a share of GDP rose between FY04 and FY08, peaking at 37.5% of GDP in FY08.