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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A mercurial and brash narcissist with a propensity to bend the truth. That’s how people close to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) described him.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Today’s CEOs have many things on their minds—technology, geo-politics, regulations, talent, sustainability and much more. Tepid consumption growth in the last few quarters makes it even more critical to put consumer centricity back on the CEO agenda.

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Kamala Harris in the US elections 2024, Democrats are turning to the former First Lady as their 'savior' in the next US elections of 2028. Michelle Obama is an extremely popular figure in the US political landscape, and there was a time when she was more popular than her husband Barack Obama, when he was still the President.

Jim Rogers, the investing legend, has issued a dire warning on US President-elect Donald Trump's 'America First' policy. The veteran market analyst is advising people to have a cautious outlook on stock markets, especially those in the United States, and opt to invest in safe-haven assets like gold and silver. Both gold and silver are considered popular hedges against inflation.

Spain’s catastrophic floods have left behind staggering devastation and despair

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is the largest-ever experiment in participatory capitalism. As India’s stock market has surged, households have scrambled to stake a claim in its success.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Parametric insurance, also known as index-based insurance, is a type of cover in which the insurance company and customer agree on a sum that will be paid out if a specific event occurs. The event must be measurable, and for the payout to be made, its intensity must meet or exceed a pre-agreed parameter or index, such as wind speed, rainfall, or earthquake magnitude.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As US Federal Reserve officials deliberate monetary policy, they may wish to recall what happened when policymakers in past decades became overconfident in using demand management measures to ‘fine tune’ the economy. The lesson learnt is that, apart from threats of high inflation at one end and recessions or balance-sheet implosions at the other, it is better to maintain a steady policy rather than react to every data point.

Welspun Corp Ltd (WCL) on Monday said it has bagged two new orders in the US worth Rs 1,300 crore for supplying specialised pipes for natural gas pipeline projects. It aims to execute the order for Helical Submerged Arc Welded (HSAW) pipes in the financial year 2025-26, the company said in an exchange filing. «Our outlook for the USA market remains extremely positive. We have also participated in a few more projects and are favourably placed in additional 1-2 large projects,» the company said. Part of USD 5 billion Welspun World, Welspun Corp is primarily engaged in the business of manufacture and distribution of steel and steel products.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There is a fundamental difference between financial investment products and other conventional products we consume. Investments have no ‘product’ with a look and feel.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Each year, Diwali comes with the sweet promise of indulging in our favourite foods, be it decadent mithai, savoury snacks or fantastic cocktails. After the fun of festivities, most of us struggle to return to healthier routines but it is possible to reset and ease into clean eating after days of bingeing.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825 million in funding as one of three national technology centers

analogue space mission kicked off in Leh on Friday. «A collaborative effort by Human Spaceflight Centre, ISRO, AAKA Space Studio, University of Ladakh, IIT Bombay, and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, this mission will simulate life in an interplanetary habitat to tackle the challenges of a base station beyond Earth,» the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said in a post on microblogging site X. Aaka Space Studio, a private company specialising in space architecture and analogue research, is set to lead a 21-day Mars and Moon mission in the rugged terrain of Ladakh, the company said in a press statement.

Autonomous truck company Aurora Innovation says it won’t start hauling freight without humans on board until April of next year

Indo-Canadians and Ottawa, this time involving not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau but the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre. The office of Canada’s opposition leader has cancelled a Diwali celebration event scheduled to take place at Parliament Hill amid the ongoing diplomatic standoff with India without 'giving any explanation whatsoever', as claimed by the Overseas Friends of India Canada (OFIC). This comes following an going standoff between Ottawa and New Delhi. Canada in mid-October expelled Indian diplomats, linking them to the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil, post which India also ordered the expulsion of Canadian diplomats.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: A combination of regulatory tightening and nervousness due to the recent pullback in equities has dragged down turnover in the cash market and the number of trades on NSE to a six-month low, per market veterans. The average daily turnover on NSE, which commands a 94% market share, declined almost 12% sequentially to ₹1.07 trillion in the month through 28 October from the previous month.

actor and comedian Billy Eichner recently expressed his severe alarm regarding the current state of the US Presidential race specifically regarding the rising momentum of former US President Donald Trump in the poll surveys. According to Fox News, Billy Eichner in a very passionate Instagram video urged all the liberals in the country to go out and vote while emphasizing on the fact that they cannot really afford to repeat the same mistake of US Presidential Elections 2016 which eventually resulted in Hilary Clinton losing to Donald Trump. Fox News reported in the video, Billy Eichner described the political climate of US as extremely dire while stating that it is a time to panic extremely. He also highlighted the fact that Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris are in a very tight race in the national sphere with Donald Trump gaining grounds just weeks before the US Presidential Election day. Also Read: Queer Eye Season 9: Here’s release date, fab five lineup and what to expect

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