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The Jeo Boden (BODEN) price is attempting to recover amid growing chatter that Solana meme coin whales have been accumulating the token in wake of its recent dip.

Tata Consultancy Services has built one of the largest and most artificial-intelligence-ready workforces in the world, chief executive officer K Krithivasan said in an email to employees at the start of the new fiscal year. In the email, a copy of which ET has seen, Krithivasan thanked employees for their efforts in learning and skilling themselves on AI. «TCS is currently working over 200 engagements in GenAI with our clients and foresees a promising pipeline of future work across all industries,» said Krithivasan who will complete a year at the helm of TCS in June.

UBS Group faces an increase in regulatory capital requirements that could reach around $20 billion under reforms proposed in the wake of the collapse of Credit Suisse.

Reliance Retail and Avenue Supermarts to sell retail grocery chain 24Seven, said executives aware of the development. Godfrey Phillips India had said in an exchange filing on April 12 that it plans to exit the loss-making 24Seven convenience chain «following a detailed review of the company's retail business division». The negotiations will hinge on valuation, said one of the persons cited.

As Citi extracts 20,000 jobs, people there are leaving. Some of those people are in revenue-generating sales and trading roles, even though the bank says it's mostly about extracting deadweight from its bureaucracy. 

It's results season for US banks and afterCiti, JPMorgan and Goldman, today we have Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. 

The countdown is on at Citigroup. In less than two months' time, Vis Raghavan, whom JPMorgan had only recently promoted as head of its investment bank, is joining Citi as head of all banking. 

Following on from Citi and JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs today announced its first quarter results. They're pretty good. As the chart below shows, Goldman outperformed its rivals in M&A and equities and fixed incomesales and trading, even if it lagged a little in equity and debt capital markets. 

Goldman Sachs CEODavid Solomon has always been optimistic that investment banking revenues would come back again. Solomon's past optimism was, however, based upon the premise that the energy transition and pent-up dealmaking and capital raising would lead the revival. Speaking yesterday, he added a new factor to the mix.

Graham Ambrose is a managing director in Goldman Sachs' equity franchise sales team in London. As of today, he has also come out as a fitness influencer, although he's been building up to it for a while.

Morgan Stanley's new CEO Ted Pick has a reputation for fragrant phrasing, and speaking today he used it to strong effect in the bank's investor call to accompany itsfirst quarter results.  

Bank of America’s fixed income traders were the darlings of 2023 (if you excuse a tough Q4), but the bank’s Q1 results suggest that they might not necessarily repeat that feat in 2024.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered a federal budget Tuesday that keeps the deficit capped at $40 billion, but introduced new taxes that largely offset billions in new spending. Here is what the economists say about the budget. 

Canada’s inflation rate picked up slightly in March to 2.9 per cent from 2.8 per cent in February, Statistics Canada said Tuesday, but the consumer price index (CPI) release suggested that core inflation continued to slow.

The federal budget released on Tuesday did not contain a general tax rate increase for the wealthy, but the government did announce that the capital gains inclusion rate will be going up and it amended the draft alternative minimum tax rules in response to concerns of the charitable sector.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced the 2024 federal budget on Tuesday. Some key highlights:

Canada will raise capital gains taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals to help pay for tens of billions in new spending aimed at making housing more affordable and improving the lives of young people.

An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge

Tim Meadows and Stephanie Beatriz have been announced as the latest additions to the voice cast of the upcoming animated film "Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture," a Variety report said. Directed by Michael Skolnick, the film promises a unique blend of comedy and sci-fi. Cast and Crew

Titanic viewers saw Kate Winslet, playing the role of Rose, struggling to stay afloat on a wood plank after the iconic ship sank, taking the life of her lover Jack. In reality, the RMS Titanic, which was a British ocean liner back in 1912, sank after hitting an iceberg, enroute New York from Southampton, England and was considered one of the biggest maritime accidents of all time after around 1,500 passengers in the ship died. Now, the new edition of the Titanic is in the works, funded by an Australian business tycoon by the name of Clive Palmer and will have no shortage of lifeboats onboard so that the issue of scrambling to stay afloat does not arise in the case of an untoward incident involving this new ship, according to a Daily Star report.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is finally set to present the federal budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, showcasing how the government plans to win back support from disgruntled Canadians worried about the cost of living.