Inside Financial News

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A year ago, the most pro-crypto president in US history had just returned to power after pandering to clueless retail crypto investors and receiving massive financial backing from semi-corrupt crypto insiders. Donald Trump’s second coming was supposed to be a new dawn for crypto, leading various self-dealing evangelists to predict that Bitcoin would become ‘digital gold,’ reaching at least $200,000 by the end of 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : India’s scale and growth, combined with increasingly sophisticated capital markets, have helped Warburg Pincus’s India franchise to become the firm’s largest investment destination outside US, senior executives said at a media roundtable in Mumbai on Wednesday. “India is the largest private equity destination for us outside the US.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Soon after Bob Iger returned to Disney in late 2022, experiences chairman Josh D’Amaro went to the chief executive’s office with a book of data on the businesses he led. Theme parks and cruise ships were constrained only by their size.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KYIV, Ukraine—Iryna Tkhoryk knew things were really bad in her cozy, three-room apartment here when frost formed on the inside handle of her balcony door, and she could see her own breath. The 60-year-old pet-store manager now walks around swaddled in several layers topped by a long pink hoodie, wearing four pairs of socks and a hot-water bottle around her neck to cope with temperatures that are at best around 50 degrees Fahrenheit inside and 10 degrees outside.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In September, President Trump’s pick to oversee banking supervision at the Federal Reserve met with the top officials from the central bank’s 12 regional districts and delivered a rebuke. The staff of the Fed’s quasi-independent regional banks are the ones who conduct most of its banking exams, ensuring the nation’s financial institutions are stable.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Software companies’ pitch to investors could use an upgrade. Once a favorite of Wall Street, software stocks have been sliding lately, with investors increasingly concerned about how the sector could be upended by their newest crush: artificial-intelligence companies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: India’s artificial intelligence (AI) startups may be drawing growing attention, but some of the country’s richest family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNIs) are placing their biggest bets thousands of miles away—on US-based ‘frontier AI’ and large language model (LLM) building firms that they believe could define the next computing cycle.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What could go wrong if an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is asked for the “best restaurants in New Delhi"? At worst, you waste an evening. But ask the same chatbot for the “best mutual funds to invest in", and the consequences can be far more serious—your retirement, child’s education, or long-term wealth goals could take a hit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Inside a sprawling, brightly lit factory in central Ukraine, a pair of launchers held up two massive cruise missiles with an unusual nickname: “the Flamingo." Longer than a city bus and weighing nearly 7 tons, the Flamingo is at the center of Ukraine’s quest to build missiles domestically that can strike deep inside Russian territory. Doing so successfully would lessen the country’s reliance on its Western backers for its most powerful weapons.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL—After the last whistle blew at the youth women’s World Cup final in November, the Netherlands coach sounded dejected. His side had just lost 3-0.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When you crack open several funds that sound the same, you can find very different investments inside. That’s one of the most subtle, but important, lessons of 2025.

Write to Alexander Ward at [email protected], Alex Leary at [email protected], Dustin Volz at [email protected], Vera Bergengruen at [email protected] and Shelby Holliday at [email protected] all the Business News, Market News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint.

Business News, Market News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint. Download The Mint News App to get Daily Market Updates.

Mint examines what lies ahead for AI in India in the coming year.In a way, yes. India will host the next global AI summit, scheduled for 15 February in New Delhi.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

Since stepping into the role of Flipkart's chief product and technology officer (CTPO) in September, Balaji Thiagarajan has been overseeing OneTech and the internal organization of engineers, product managers and tech specialists who collaborate to solve infrastructure challenges, build features and test them at scale.In an interview with Mint, he explains how this unified stack is modernizing Flipkart’s architecture for an initial public offering (IPO) readiness, quick commerce expansion via Flipkart Minutes, trust features such as fraud detection, warehouse automation, and fintech growth as the Walmart-owned firm shifts domicile to India for a potential listing.The Walmart-owned firm got the National Company Law Tribunal's nod this month to shift domicile from Singapore to India ahead of a potential 2026 listing. It follows Flipkart’s $1 billion funding round in May 2024, led by Google that valued it at $35-36 billion.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SAN DIEGO—At a party atop a waterfront hotel, researchers kicked back with cocktails like the Burning TPU, made of honey, bourbon and Sardinian myrtle liqueur, and named after Google’s custom AI chip. They made small talk about everything from the hours at Elon Musk’s xAI (long) to the likelihood that foreign spies were inside top AI labs (high).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is often designated by President Trump to fix problems. She spent part of Tuesday managing the fallout of a rare headache she created.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Tristan Keyser-Parker, a senior at Brown University, was in a workshop inside the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building Saturday afternoon when he heard someone yell “Intruder!" Keyser-Parker sprinted with about 30 students out a side entrance as police converged on the building. The students fled to the third story of a nearby dorm, where they sat, stunned, on the floor.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A complaint lodged in the Lok Sabha has brought Indian laws around vaping into focus. Vapes or e-cigarettes are banned in India, yet a Member of Parliament (MP) was allegedly using one openly in the premises.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. sugar health impact, fructose vs glucose, natural sugar vs refined sugar, sugar on food labels, sucrose, fructose, glucose, insulin resistance, fatty liver, sugary drinks, fruit juice sugar content, whole fruit fiber sugar absorption, honey minerals antioxidants negligible, date sugar fiber content, chewing slows sugar absorption, christmas treats sugar intake smart strategies This is the time of year for mulled wine, sweet brandy and puddings drenched in syrup. Some people may tell you that you can limit the damage by being picky about which type of sugar you eat.