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In a note on Friday, analysts at corporate bond research firm Gimme Credit said they are comfortable with their buy recommendation for Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) bonds despite concerns following its earnings release a week ago.

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo

A little-watched corner of Canada’s credit market is being shaken up by the country’s largest lenders as they pile into securities that shift credit risks to other investors — a play likely to be copied by their counterparts on Wall Street.

Quebec’s public pension manager plans to cut a significant number of jobs as part of a reorganization that will see two real estate units brought in-house to improve efficiency.

Cooler-than-expected inflation numbers have left one strategist even more skeptical of the Bank of Canada‘s conservative forecast for when the consumer price index will return to target, suggesting the door to interest rate cuts could open much sooner than the central bank has predicted.

Mint. I spoke to Kaul for a new series we are starting called ‘Behind the Byline’. As the name suggests the series focuses on the people behind our stories.

How to explain the budget to an engineer" is a testament to his explanatory approach towards financial news. Some of his other pieces include the likes of “Explaining inflation to your boyfriend", “How to explain the Budget to your grandma", and “How to explain the budget to a teenager". The 2008 global financial crisis was a pivotal moment for many around the world.

₹3.8 trillion on Thursday, and bankers hope the situation will improve when government spending picks up, and money finds its way into the banking system. Liquidity deficit stood at ₹2.6 trillion as on 22 February, slightly lower than ₹2.8 trillion on 21 February, as per data from Bloomberg, but has nonetheless stayed in deficit since 8 December. “Because credit offtake is quite strong, banks are managing the shortfall in deposits with short-term borrowings," said Arun Bansal, executive director, IDBI Bank.

Elton John's monogrammed silver boots and around $2 million for a triptych by street artist Banksy from his collection: the music icon's personal items brought in almost $8 million at auction Wednesday in New York. Christie's auction house is running a series of eight sales, both in person and online, through February 28 for the collection of the 76-year-old's belongings, including an ivory and gold glam rock jumpsuit from the early 1970s designed by Annie Reavey, which sold for $12,600. As enthusiastic collectors made bids, John's grand piano fetched over $200,000, while a pair of sunglasses, a key element of the singer's signature look, found a buyer for $22,680, ten times more than the initial estimate.

electricity rules to exempt households from a technical feasibility study for power systems up to 10 kW capacity in a bid to encourage rooftop solar adoption. For systems of capacity higher than 10 kW, the time frame for completing the feasibility study has been reduced to 15 days from 20 days. The amendments to the Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020, also further reduced the time allowed for getting new electricity connections and simplified the process of setting up rooftop solar installations, said power and new and renewable energy minister RK Singh.

Supreme Court has ordered the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) authorities in Uttar Pradesh to appoint a man, whose selection was cancelled in 2005 for allegedly concealing information about a criminal case against him, as a constable. The apex court noted that when the man had applied for the job on February 12, 2004, there was no criminal case registered or pending against him. However, five days after submitting the application, he got implicated in a criminal case in which he was subsequently acquitted by the trial court in September 2004. «Broad-brushing every non-disclosure as a disqualification will be unjust and the same will tantamount to being completely oblivious to the ground realities obtaining in this great, vast and diverse country,» a bench of justices J K Maheshwari and K V Viswanathan said in its verdict delivered on Thursday.

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation platform that has some 71 million active daily users who discuss niche subjects in niche groups. On Thursday, the San Francisco-headquartered company signed a $60 million-a-year deal — in Google VP, engineering, Rajan Patel's words, 'a new Cloud partnership' — that will allow Google to mine the social media site's vast content to train its generative AI models. It had taken eight months for Reddit to sign up a big AI company, after CEO Steve Huffman announced in June 2023 that AI companies consuming Reddit's data to train their LLMs would have to pay up. It appeared as an attempt to bolster the company's revenues and attain profitability before an IPO. 'We'll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,' Huffman had said then. The same month, Reddit also announced that all developers like Apollo, Sync, Pushshift and RiF would have to begin paying for using the Reddit API. Many developers were outraged, because Reddit had become a significant social media site by allowing its API to be used for free by developers to build their bots and services. Many dropped out, claiming the new fee-paying model wasn't sustainable, despite the fact that they were making money from subscribers and ads, which they were not sharing with Reddit.

Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA) 1980, a Supreme Court bench earlier this week stated that states and UTs must go by the 'dictionary definition' of 'forest' — all statutorily recognised forests, whether designated as reserved, protected or otherwise — to determine whether any work can be approved on a land. Crucially, it directed GoI to get information from states regarding lands identified as forests based on lexical interpretation, as outlined in the 1996 Godavarman ruling, and that no zoos or safari parks can be set up in such areas without the court's nod. The 1996 ruling expanded the definition of forests beyond those notified or recorded officially.

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American Land Title Association CEO Diane Tomb discusses her outlook for housing costs, commercial real estate fears and strategy on mortgage rates. 

By Herbert Lash and Huw Jones

Benchmark indexes Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and the S&P 500 are poised to finish the week on a positive note. We have seen notable performances from four key stocks:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is serious about moving the electric car company out of Delaware and reincorporating in Texas, he got good news yesterday from a judge in Delaware Chancery Court. In a case involving Tripadvisor, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster said that the online travel site can go ahead with plans to move its state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The move was pushed by Tripadvisor's controlling shareholder, Greg Maffei, but was opposed by shareholders who argued that Maffei's goal was to evade accountability in Delaware courts.

Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) sector is expecting to notch up reasonable growth in Assets Under Management (AUM) and may cross the Rs 10 lakh-crore-mark this fiscal, up from Rs 8.48 lakh crore a year ago, according to a report. According to the report by Crisil Ratings, which was released at an Assocham seminar on ARCs/stressed assets here on Friday, the sector must now look to consolidate as the Non-Performing Assets (NPA) problem has been «well contained». The book value of bad loan sales to ARCs is likely to cross the Rs 10 lakh crore-mark by next month from Rs 8.48 lakh crore in March 2023, the report said.

recruitment professionals, who joined recruitment teams of startups at astronomical hikes to drive the post-pandemic hiring frenzy, are now struggling to find jobs for themselves. Many of these talent acquisition folks are now finding themselves priced out of the market as opportunities dry up and several find themselves without jobs, some for months on end, industry insiders said.

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