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Traders of futures contracts that settle to the Federal Reserve's policy rate maintained bets on Friday that the U.S. central bank will restart cuts to short-term borrowing rates in June after data showed inflation rose in line with expectations in January. They still see a second cut as likelier than not in September.

In Douglas Adams’ 1979 cult classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the narrator says dolphins are the second most intelligent creatures on Earth — after mice, and before humans. While humans live tucked away in the conceit that they’re masters of the universe, sometimes dolphins send out a correctional signal.

The Boys season 5 is bringing a dose of the supernatural. On 26 February, Prime Video and The Boys' official Instagram shared a teaser revealing that Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins will be joining Jensen Ackles in the show's final season.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A perfect storm of domestic and global challenges is battering India's financial markets. The rupee’s freefall, dismal corporate earnings, spiking bond yields, and a relentless foreign portfolio investors (FPI) exodus have struck India harder than its Asian counterparts.

Anand Rathi has a buy call on Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd. with a target price of Rs 1600. The current market price of Narayana Hrudayalaya is Rs 1455.3. Narayana Hrudayalaya, incorporated in 2000, is a Mid Cap company with a market cap of Rs 30155.48 crore, operating in Hospitals & Allied Services sector.

Amazon on Wednesday launched its next-generation AI assistant, Alexa Plus, with real-time problem-solving capabilities and a vast knowledge base. The company described the new product as a “complete re-architecture” of Alexa.

ChatGPT developer OpenAI said on Thursday it has released a research preview of its latest GPT-4.5 model for its Pro users and developers worldwide, with plans to expand access in the coming weeks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You’re in a pinch. After pausing your career for several years to start a family, it’s time to go back to work, but you feel rusty, unmotivated and anxious about re-entering the job market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 27 February, global cues dictated the trends in the market. Indian equity indices, the Sensex and Nifty, concluded the trading day with minimal changes, as their movements were relatively flat throughout the day.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Four years since India flagged off an ambitious scheme to encourage the local production of automobiles, the ₹26,000-crore venture is yet to gain traction. The production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for automobiles and components (PLI-Auto) was announced in 2021, but the first payouts happened only in January this year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s public sector banks have outpaced their private sector peers in growing their loan book, regaining market share lost over the past several years when asset quality and capital concerns had weighed them down. While loans by public sector banks grew 12.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in December, private banks saw their loan book grow 10.5%.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, may face off against Jon Stewart on The Daily Show following Stewart's vehement criticism of Musk's government budget cuts. There could be a historic TV showdown with a clash of Titans.

Wednesday became an instant phenomenon upon its release in 2022, breaking viewership records and surpassing major titles like Bridgerton and Stranger Things.

Five, is set to make a comeback with their 2025 reunion tour.

microfinance lending should be seen as an assertion of its confidence that earlier curbs are delivering results. The stress showing up in this segment — NPAs in the sector have surged to an all-time high of ₹50,000 cr, according to data from Crif High Mark — is the outcome of credit contraction that would, left to itself, have tamed delinquency. Lenders pulled back after RBI last year capped credit and interest rates to overleveraged borrowers. Evergreening of loans has been curtailed, with the new rules setting limits on the number of loans to individual borrowers and prohibit fresh lending to any debtor in default. But this is strong medicine, administered to check the spike in unsecured credit resulting from a previous round of relaxation of microfinance lending rules.

The group, which bought advice businesses Lift Financial, CST Wealth Management and Lucas Fettes during the period, said it had delivered a «solid set of results» which showed that funds under management (FUM) were up 0.7% to £15.7bn. It said gross inflows were £1.1bn and included a 13% MPS increase with net inflows of £288m and total FUM at 31 December reaching almost £5.8bn for the MPS arm. However, gross outflows were «elevated» during the period at £1.4bn «particularly in BPS, driven by the prevailing backdrop of market volatility and uncertainty leading up to the Budget affecting...

The trade uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump’s tariff threats could wreak structural damage to Canada’s economy that won’t be easy to reverse, warns Royal Bank of Canada.