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Beauty and personal care company Honasa Consumer, which runs brands like Mamaearth, fell to a net loss in the September quarter while operating revenue declined. The company was hit by a restructuring exercise in its distribution and supply chain wherein it is shifting from a super-stockist model to appointing direct distributors. The quarterly performance lagged the Gurugram-based company's internal projections, cofounder and CEO Varun Alagh told ET's Pranav Mukul. Edited excerpts:

Wall Street's main indexes closed lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notching their biggest one-day losses in two weeks, on concerns about slower interest-rate cuts and as investors reacted to cabinet picks by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday cited ongoing economic growth, a solid job market, and inflation above the U.S. central bank's 2% target as reasons it can afford to be careful with the pace and scope of future rate cuts.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index dropped 0.8%, trading just above a three-month low hit earlier this week.

interest rate cuts and with the view that President-elect Donald Trump's policies could be inflationary. The dollar has benefited from market expectation that Trump administration policies, including tariffs and tax cuts, could stoke inflation, leaving the Federal Reserve less room to cut interest rates.

A nearly 800% run in shares of Nvidia over the past two years, driven by its gold standard AI business, has propelled the semiconductor company to the world's top spot by market value.

fossil fuel lobbyists with 1,773 registered participants are only outnumbered by delegations of three countries — host Azerbaijan (2,229), COP30 host Brazil (1,914), and Turkiye (1,862). The list of lobbyists include 24 from India as well. Among Indians, mostly (17) came as a delegation from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), three from CII and remaining four representing different NGOs. The list of Indians also shows the name of a senior functionary, Pravin Dongre (executive director) from public sector oil company, Indian Oil Corporation. The list, accessed by TOI, mentioned him as nominated by an NGO, Griha Council, as its guest. Dongre told TOI that he is here to promote global biofuel alliance. He, however, didn't have a clear answer as to why he was in the list of NGO's guest.

Austria's chancellor says Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazrom will cut off supplies early Saturday to Austrian utility OMV

Investors in the cryptocurrency who said the world's richest person and his electric car company Tesla committed fraud and insider trading are withdrawing their appeal from an Aug. 29 dismissal of their case. They are also withdrawing a bid to sanction Musk's lawyers for allegedly interfering with the appeal, including by demanding payment of their hefty legal fees.

The economy of the European Union is headed for only modest growth in coming months as consumers regain some of the purchasing power they lost to inflation, the bloc's executive commission said Friday

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Philip Green, who paid a courtesy visit to Agriculture Secretary Devesh Chaturvedi on Thursday, discussed new opportunities for collaboration in agriculture and allied sectors. Highlighting the importance of agriculture in Australia's priorities, Green expressed «keen interest in exploring opportunities within the agri-tech sector». He also stressed the need for continued engagement to identify and unlock new opportunities for trade and cooperation.

Speaking at the Mansion House Financial and Professional Services dinner on Thursday (15 November), the governor urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to «welcome opportunities to rebuild» post-Brexit relations with the continent. «Now, as I have said many times, as a public official I take no position on Brexit per se. That is important. But I do have to point out consequences. The changing trading relationship with the EU has weighed on the level of potential supply,» he said.  «The impact on trade seems to be more in goods than services, that is not particularly surprising to my mind. But...

crypto space being no exception. Following Donald Trump's victory, the market has experienced a surge in crypto prices, marking what many consider the beginning of a new bull run. Anush Jafer, Content Lead at Mudrex Research, discussed the implications of Trump's win on the crypto market and retail investor sentiment during a recent ETMarkets live stream.

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks slipped as the rally following Trump’s election victory cooled further

Fashion company Tapestry says it’s terminating its proposed merger with Capri because the two luxury groups don’t expect to overcome an antitrust challenge within an acceptable time frame

European Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what it calls “abusive practices” involving its Marketplace online classified ads business

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Bitcoin saw profit-taking on Friday, trading below $87,500. As of 10:52 am IST, Bitcoin was down 2.7%, trading at $87,498, while Ethereum dropped 5.6% to $3,044 in the last 24 hours.

The Ford government has signed a deal worth roughly $100 million with Elon Musk’s Starlink company to provide high-speed internet to parts of northern and rural Ontario.

While BSE and NSE have declared a trading holiday on the election day, commodity trading on MCX will open only for the evening session.