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Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepr...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Donald Trump has fired the first shot. Goods arriving in America from Canada and Mexico will meet tariffs of 25% as soon as he returns to the White House, the president-elect announced on November 25th.

It’s voting day in Nova Scotia as people head to the polls to cast their ballots.

Federal Reserve officials appeared divided at their meeting earlier this month over how much farther they may need to cut interest rates, but as a group agreed to avoid giving much guidance from here on about how U.S. monetary policy is likely to evolve. There was uncertainty about the direction of the economy, Fed officials noted, according to the minutes of the Nov. 6-7 meeting, uncertainty about just how much the current level of interest rates was doing to restrict the economy — a key issue in deciding how much further rates should fall — and a developing case to step carefully.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investors exiting India have net-sold over ₹2 trillion worth of shares this fiscal, setting the stage for what could be the worst year for foreign portfolio outflows on NSE's secondary market. As US bond yields rose and quarterly earnings disappointed amid lofty valuations, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) net-sold a record ₹1.17 trillion in the secondary market in NSE's cash segment in October.

Rumble (RUM), the conservative-leaning streaming platform whose backers include Vice President-elect JD Vance, said it is planning to allocate part of its cash reserves to bitcoin (BTCUSD).

Kamala Harris' presidential campaign insist they simply didn't have enough time to execute a winning strategy against Donald Trump, pointing to “ferocious" political headwinds that were ultimately too much to overcome in the 107-day period after President Joe Biden stepped aside, as per a report. Harris' leadership team, speaking on the “Pod Save America” podcast that aired on Tuesday, defended strategic decisions over the campaign's closing days, some of which have faced scrutiny in the weeks since Trump's decisive victory. Specifically, they defended Harris' outreach to Republican voters, her unwillingness to distance herself from Biden, her silence on Trump's attacks on her transgender policies and her inability to schedule an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, AP reported. Also Read :It Ends With Us: Check out Netflix streaming date, storyline, cast and characters

loonie is shaping up as an early casualty of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s latest trade threats against Canada, with knock-on impacts expected elsewhere in Canadian pocketbooks.The value of the Canadian dollar dropped to a four-and-a-half-year low of 70.53 cents to the U.S.

Federal Reserve officials expressed confidence that inflation is easing and the labor market is strong, allowing for further interest rate cuts albeit at a gradual pace, according to minutes from the November meeting released Tuesday.

But reliable sources confirm that unlike what Zomato's Deepinder Goyal recently first stated-about looking for a chief of staff who would have to pay the company for a year's stint in the job-and later retracted, CPI(M) being far less Das Capitalistic, will actually pay those they hire. And they will pay in money, not in roshogolla boxes and copies of the Communist Manifesto.

Americans’ outlook on the economy improved modestly in November, lifted by expectations for lower inflation and more hiring

Donald Trump is coming back to the White House, but don't expect another “Fire and Fury,” or much fire and fury in book publishing in general

PSU stocks and D-Street experts see this momentum to continue in the run-up to next year's Union Budget. While valuations still remain a concern for many, the road ahead is likely to be stock specific, they say, arguing that the recent correction is offering pockets of opportunities to make entry in the state-run company stocks. An analysis of the 59-stock BSE PSU index reveals 39 stocks that have witnessed a decline since June 4, the day when the general election results were announced. In this, 30 have fallen in double digits. The worst losers are Bharat Dynamics, Cochin Shipyard, Ircon International, Mangalore Refinery And Petrochemicals (MRPL), falling between 39% and 20% as on November 22 (a day before the announcement of Maharashtra assembly election results).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's economic growth likely slowed to 6.5% in the September quarter, which would be its slowest pace in six quarters, according to the median estimate of 25 economists in a Mint poll. This marks a decline from 6.7% in the preceding quarter.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani, two of the world's richest persons, are circling over India's satellite broadband market—possibly the next frontier of the Indian telecom wars—and taking opposing positions. With less telecom infrastructure needed on ground, satellites are an alternative way to offer broadband services, and Musk has more satellites in orbit than anyone else.

Mahayuti's landslide victory in Maharashtra Assembly Elections The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance made a powerful comeback in state assembly polls by winning 230 seats. Recovering from its Lok Sabha Elections 2024 losses, the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged a maximum of 132 constituencies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ON NOVEMBER 23rd Mark Rutte, the new head of NATO, and Donald Trump, America’s president-elect, were photographed together grinning delightedly and shaking hands in Palm Beach, Florida. Yet the mood in Europe’s defence ministries is one of grim foreboding.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As expected in the previous day's market commentary, the Indian benchmark index Nifty50 opened with a strong gap-up, taking cues from the Maharashtra state election and positive global sentiment. The index opened 346-point higher at 24,253, registered an intraday high at 24,351, and closed at 24,222.

Canada is on a “clear path” to hit NATO’s defence spending target over the coming years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as pressure ramps up on Ottawa in the wake of the U.S. election.

The reaction of those who defended “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Trump sounds almost quaint in the days of opinionated journalism

Enthusiasm for cryptocurrency has gone «through the roof» since the re-election of President Donald Trump, analysts said Monday, which should lift shares of Coinbase Global (COIN).