Parke Financial News

By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park

The board of Walt Disney World’s governing district now filled with Gov. Ron DeSantis appointees has approved a contract for its firefighters

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter on Wednesday, buoyed by a rebound in online advertising after a post-pandemic slump

Lionel Messi's impact for Inter Miami has been clear to see, with three goals and an assist in 120 minutes on the field, but his team-mates say his influence behind the scenes may be just as vital. The seven-times Ballon d'Or winner and recently crowned World Cup-winning Argentine captain, faced a number of potential pitfalls when he joined the last-placed club in Major League Soccer. Having spent his entire career alongside world-class players at Barcelona, Messi left behind star team-mates such as Brazilian Neymar and Frenchman Kylian Mbappe at Paris Saint-Germain and walked into a locker-room full of mostly unrecognisable faces.

ESG-flavoured superannuation and investments start-up Future Super has tapped E&P Corporate Advisory to drum up fresh capital, telling investors it can more than double its assets to $25 billion in the next three years.

A bidding war between two of the market’s top funds management firms has broken out after GQG Partners said it intended to counter a $555 million bid lobbed by Regal Partners for Pacific Current Group.

whales have died after being stranded in the shallow water along the beach of Cheynes in Western Australia. Confirming the incident, the Parks and Wildlife Service of Western Australia said that many long-finned pilot whales were found on the beach of the southern coast Tuesday morning. In the videos posted on social media platforms, some whales are seen flapping their fins while others are seen huddling together. The authorities have urged the people to keep away from the sea beach warning them of ‘large sick whales or waves or large machines’. The long-finned pilot whales are found in the Southern Hemisphere and North Atlantic Ocean. It is not yet known why the pods weres stranded, but scientists and biologists are confused about the behavior of the whales who huddled together before being stranded. They feel that the whales might have been scared of a predator like a large whale. Scientists have observed that the toothed whales use their sonar to navigate and they are more likely to get stranded compared to non-toothed whales. This is not the first time that whales have died after getting stranded on the beach. More than 200 whales were stranded on the beach of Tasmania last year September. Prior to this, 450 whales got stranded in 2020 on the beach of Tasmania in Australia.

GreenH Electrolysis on Wednesday announced its plans to set up an electrolyser manufacturing plant with a capacity of 1 gigawatt (GW) in India. GreenH Electrolysis is a joint venture company between Spain-based H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies and GR Group of India. «GreenH Electrolysis announces its first, 1 GW, state-of-the-art, PEM electrolyser manufacturing plant in India,» the company said in a statement.

It is directed by Lee Jeong Hyo, popular for Crash Landing on You, Book and Life on Mars and more. Other than that, the production team behind this K-drama is Studio Dragon.

New York City authorities are cautioning the public to stay away from a specific section of Manhattan on Wednesday morning. Social media users are sharing videos and pictures of a construction crane that caught fire after partially collapsing. The New York City Police Department posted a tweet advising people to avoid the vicinity of 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue, stretching from West 41 Street to West 42 Street, due to the crane collapse.

water level is stable but we need to be alert for the next 24 hours. A video is viral of a private cab company yard where they have dumped cars...since last 4 days we were alerting them to shift the cars, but they didn't..." says Manish Kumar Verma, DM Gautam Budh Nagar. The senior officials of the administration also inspected the shelter homes in Chhijarsi, Chotpur, and Haibatpur as people from low-lying areas were evacuated.

By Joyce Lee

«Our member editions were very robust at 23% growth on YOY basis and parallelly we acquired a resort in Jaipur a 72 Key Resort which will expand further,» says Kavinder Singh, Mahindra Holidays.Let us understand things for the quarter gone by. I do not want to dwell too much into your bottom line because we understand that there is always this element of you have to keep on parking money because of the accounting policy you follow so I will not spend too much time and on that but let us first understand the big picture. This is boom time for the hospitality industry, are you enjoying the joyride? I think this is something that I wanted to share that we have a strategic objective which we are pursuing now from growing our base of about 5,000 as this quarter we touch 5,000 mark we want to take it to 10,000 over the next seven years that is the big picture so the joyride is on and we will definitely move towards a strategic objective of doubling our own count in about seven years.

ITO got waterlogged causing traffic snarls and hinderance in traffic movement. Parts of Delhi-NCR region including Noida and Ghaziabad experienced heavy rainfall early in the morning. As per latest updates, the Noida Traffic Police has issued traffic advisory stating the roads where traffic movement is slow due to waterlogging.

Punjab National Bank (PNB), Axis Bank, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finance, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, BPCL, Cipla, Tata Consumer Products are among the top companies that will declare their Q1 results today. The company results are one of the most important events that help stock market investors make investment decisions and decide the mid and long term positions. The Q1 result season so far has been in-line with estimates, with the IT and metal sector delivering weak performance, while the banks showing robust growth during the April-June quarter of FY24.

Delhi University (AQI 59). An Air Quality Index (AQI) between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'. Speaking of Yamuna water level in the national capital, Yamuna river in the national capital is still flowing just few centimetres below the danger mark.

The New York City Economy Tracker is a joint project between Investopedia and NY1, using publicly available data to evaluate the economic health of the city across a variety of metrics.

How the journey beganThe group’s journey began in 1993 with the construction of a commercial structure in then Bangalore that paved the way for bigger, better things to follow. At the turn of the century, with the onset of Information Technology (IT), the Garden City was poised for exponential growth.

India has changed digitally at a fast pace with the use of smartphones, and businesses will expand in the country in the coming years, a senior Samsung official said here. Samsung SouthWest Asia President and CEO JB Park said Digital India kind of projects were adopted in Korea in the past that brought growth and development in the country. India has a vast population under an average of 30 years, which will push for growth in demand and business, he added.

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jonathan Allen

A battle is brewing for control of Dreamworld theme park owner Ardent Leisure, with activist investor David Kingston requisitioning the company’s share register to drum up discontent over what he claims is poor performance by management.