Reports Financial News

Federal Reserve poised to lead the charge for richer countries. Traders boosted bets on how aggressively the Fed will lower borrowing costs this year after a report showed prices paid to producers continued to fall in December. Even so, the path to taming inflation will be bumpy, as a measure of consumer prices rose by the most in three months. Similar metrics in Norway and Chile eased in December, while Argentina ended the year with inflation above 200%.

CTV News reported. Marc Miller mentioned that he would be looking at the possibility of setting a cap on international students to help reduce the demand for housing in both the first and second quarters of this year.

HanuMan, touted as the first superhero movie in Telugu, is written and directed by Prasanth Varma. The movie stars Teja Sajja in the lead role. The movie was released on January 12.

Indian vs Chinese tourists in Maldives: The rise and fall in last 10 years As per the local paper Adhadhu, Azim was the former CEO of the Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) during the last government. He started his career as an internal auditor at Coopers & Lybrand and apart from running his own business, held several government positions, ANI reported.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said the Navi Mumbai international airport will be commercially operational by March 2025. The upcoming airport is not just an important infrastructure project for Mumbai or Maharashtra but is a project of pride for the entire nation, he told reporters on Saturday. He inspected the progress of the work connected to the airport, which is being built in five phases.

China which has repeatedly denounced him as a dangerous separatist. 1. The Chinese Foreign Ministry reaffirmed its claim to the breakaway territory as part of its own in its first official response to the presidential elections in neighbouring Taiwan.

Samsung has already confirmed that its S24 series will be launched in India and global markets at the Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for January 17. However, the rumour mill has been buzzing ahead of the much-anticipated event, with the latest reports suggesting that the Samsung S24 series could get support for up to 7 years of software updates.

MSCI China gauge already down more than 4% so far this year. It capped a third straight annual decline in 2023. “The bigger picture is that the weak demand is leading to a deflationary environment, which particularly bodes ill for businesses that cannot achieve higher volumes with lower prices," said Daisy Li, a fund manager at EFG Asset Management HK Ltd.

Merry Christmas Box Office Collection Day 2: Merry Christmas, directed by legendary filmmaker Sriram Raghavan, was released on January 12. This happens to be his Tamil debut as the movie was made simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil. The movie collected ₹2.55 crore on its release day.

Delhi Weather Update: Delhi on Sunday woke up to a thick blanket of fog, as predicted by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Dense to very dense fog engulfed the city, reducing visibility to a mere 200-500 meters and causing major disruptions to air and rail travel. This foggy spell is expected to linger for three days, casting a chilly shadow over Delhi and its residents.

Arvind Sawant. Deora had said his family represented the seat for 50 years and wasn't elected on any "wave". Earlier in December, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut had said that their talks with the Congress on seat-sharing had to start from zero as the party has "not won any seat" in the state.

Since then, a new generation of AI-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) and AI tooling companies have been emerging and gaining traction, boosting prospects at the world’s third-biggest start-up ecosystem. And going forward, this is also something that should draw large financial commitments when a grim funding winter recedes.

Consumer goods companies are readying to step up their advertising and promotion expenditure in the next few quarters, aided by the improvement in gross margins in the past three-four quarters due to lower input costs. Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies such as Dabur, Marico and Godrej Consumer Products said in investor notes that advertising, promotion and category development spending had gone up in the December quarter and some said it will increase further in the next few quarters. This year is filled with events and companies will lap up the opportunity, said Parle Products' senior category head B Krishna Rao. «In the next 10 days advertising spending will go up for Ram Mandir, then Lok Sabha elections and multiple sport events such as IPL, T20 World Cup and Olympics. At the same time, spending will also be increased to try to improve demand,» he said. BNP Paribas said in a report this week that the gross margin improvement trend will continue due to lower input costs, but ad spends will also remain elevated.

India: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Shubman Gill, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Azmatullah Omarzai, Qais Ahmad India: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Sanju Samson (wk), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Najibullah Zadran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Noor Ahmad, Qais Ahmad The match between India and Afghanistan will be broadcast on the Sports 18 network and will be livestreamed on JIO Cinema from 7.00 pm (IST) onwards.Milestone Alert! Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world

Jaishankar will meet Foreign Minister of Iran, HE Dr Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and hold discussions on bilateral, regional and global issues. "Political cooperation, connectivity initiatives and strong people-to-people ties will constitute important aspects of the agenda," the statement by the ministry added. Jaishankar and Amir-Abdollahian are also likely to discuss boosting regional connectivity through the Chabahar Port.

Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Saturday said the IAF has indigenised more than 60,000 components in the last two to three years. He also said the Air Force cannot rely on foreign OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) for repair and overhaul maintenance activities and that it has to be done in-house. The IAF chief was speaking with reporters on the sidelines of a programme held in the Bhonsala Military School in Nagpur.

WELLINGTON: After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern married longtime partner Clarke Gayford in a private ceremony Saturday. Details of the event were closely held by the pair, but the ceremony is reported to have been staged at a luxury vineyard in the scenic Hawke's Bay region, 325 kilometers (200 miles) from New Zealand's capital, Wellington.

trade minister said on Saturday. «Ground reports indicate that the crop is quite good and this year's production is expected at a record 114 million metric tons,» Piyush Goyal told reporters. India banned wheat exports in 2022 after output was curtailed due to a heat wave, but more recently overseas sales picked up as Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent global prices to multi-year highs. The government has sold around 6 million metric tons of wheat to local bulk buyers since June. 1, when the state-run Food Corporation of India started selling the grain from its warehouses. Despite selling wheat from its granaries, inventories at state warehouses are likely to remain above the target of 7.46 million metric tons fixed for April 1, when a new marketing year starts, a top government official said earlier this month. The country's wheat stocks at state warehouses stood at 16.47 million metric tons as of Jan.

state visit to China, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu on Saturday struck a defiant note saying that his country may be small but «doesn't give them the license to bully us». His comments came amid a diplomatic row with India over derogatory social media posts by three of his ministers against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. «We may be small but this doesn't give them the license to bully us,» Muizzu, who is regarded as a pro-China leader, said without naming any country.

Cooper family, CBS is in the final stages of negotiations for a Young Sheldon spinoff, placing the spotlight on Georgie Cooper (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment), as reported by Variety. This potential series will delve into the challenges of parenthood as the characters navigate the intricacies of raising a family. The spinoff idea gained momentum after Mandy's pregnancy revelation during the fifth season of Young Sheldon, culminating in their decision to tie the knot and name their son Constance as a tribute to Georgie's beloved grandmother, Meemaw (Annie Potts).

Tesla Inc. had a blockbuster 2023, as its shares more than doubled in 12 months. But 2024 is starting on a different note, with Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker off to its worst start to any year — ever. The company has lost more than $94 billion in market valuation in just the first two weeks of 2024.