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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ON THE MORNING of January 28th April Mullins-Datko, the director of ADVOCAP, a social-services provider in Fond Du Lac, a city of 40,000 people in Wisconsin, put in her usual request to draw down $250,000 to pay staff salaries and other expenses connected with Head Start, a federal programme that provides child care, education and food to families on low incomes. Every other time ADVOCAP has done this the money has arrived within 48 hours.

The recent market correction, especially in the mid cap/small cap segment, has certainly made select businesses worth adding to portfolios, says Chandraprakash Padiyar, Senior Fund Manager, Tata Asset Management. «We have deployed quite aggressively in our funds during the current correction – however the deployment has been in select businesses and not across the board,» he says.

Gold prices firmed on Monday, and hovered near a record high hit in the previous session, as investors sought refuge in the safe-haven asset after U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose fresh tariffs sparked concerns of a global trade war.

Oil prices ticked higher on Monday even as investors weighed U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff threat, this time on all steel and aluminium imports, which could dampen global economic growth and energy demand. Brent crude futures climbed 40 cents, or 0.5%, to $75.06 a barrel by 0133 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $71.38 a barrel, up 38 cents, or 0.5%. The market posted its third consecutive weekly decline last week on concerns about a global trade war.

new tax regime and opts for the NPS benefit offered by his company.

NBFC-Account Aggregator (NBFC-AA) ecosystem, which was designed to enable an open banking framework, is facing stiff challenges around scale up for small players, according to multiple industry insiders in the know.

ICICI Prudential Mutual, in the presence of an army of top investment advisors and distributors, underscored the risks of investing in expensive stocks even in a staggered fashion, among other issues, in a rare instance of an experienced industry insider spelling out the trigger warning explicitly. His speech was pulled out subsequently; some said it was because of a lack of the company's compliance approval, while others speculated the influential distributor lobby did not want it to come out. Nonetheless, the remarks have set the cat among the pigeons.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Microfinance companies are facing the threat of a funding squeeze as banks and non-bank lenders have already slowed lending to them.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A name can mean everything—or nothing. When Zomato decided to rename its corporate entity to Eternal Ltd last week, the industry sat up and took notice.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India is doubling down on its quality crusade, putting a range of domestic and imported goods under close scrutiny at a time protectionist walls are going up across the world.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KRN Heat Exchanger, a small but ambitious industrial player, made a remarkable debut with its initial public offering (IPO)—oversubscribed 213 times—raising ₹342 crore. Impressively, it debuted at ₹480 per share, a premium of 118%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd’s (M&M) shares have gained as much as 86% in the past one year on strong outlook and are now hovering near their 52-week highs of ₹3,270.55 seen on Tuesday. While the December quarter (Q3FY25) results announced on Friday are strong, they are on expected lines.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: After more than two years of a funding slowdown in the edtech ecosystem and mismatched valuation expectations in the private markets, these startups are gearing up for a public listing in the next 1-2 years. Professional learning provider Imarticus, B2B edtech platform Classplus, online higher education company Jaro Education, and full-stack edtech unicorn Physics Wallah are among those that have set the ball rolling for their public market debut.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tech Mahindra Ltd is in talks to build a global capability centre (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.in Hyderabad, two people aware of the matter said. The centre, which will employ 3,000, will house the research and development (R&D) and IT operations of the US company.

Osaka Gas Co, Sumitomo Corporation, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Konoike Transport is planning to double its stake in city gas distribution company AG&P Pratham ahead of its IPO planned next year, according to sources aware of the development. This will make the consortium a majority stakeholder in the I-Squared Capital-backed company, which was last year valued at $1.5 billion.

President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Large Indian hospital chains are diversifying their international patient-base to drive up revenue and reduce dependence on a single region, amid an ongoing dip in patients from Bangladesh, industry executives told Mint. Bangladeshi patients make up the largest chunk of international visitors checking into Indian hospitals for procedures, but numbers dipped sharply last year after political crisis gripped the neighbouring country.

Amazon warehouse says the online retail giant has begun shutting down its seven facilities in Quebec this week, putting thousands of employees out of work.Félix Trudeau, union president for the Laval, Que., warehouse that unionized last May, says the three warehouses in the Montreal area, including his own, were closed late Friday night, one day earlier than expected.He says some workers showed up to their shifts last night only to find out the warehouses shuttered while a fourth warehouse that was expected to close in March closed earlier this week.The company is cutting some 1,700 permanent jobs, but Quebec labour group Confédération des syndicats nationaux says the number of total layoffs rises to about 4,500 when workers employed by subcontractors are factored in.Trudeau has accused the e-commerce goliath of closing its warehouses in the province to punish employees at his facility for unionizing last May, and he is calling on all levels of government to boycott the company until it reopens its facilities or agrees to pay all its laid-off employees one year’s salary with benefits.Amazon has not responded to requests for comment but has previously dismissed claims that the layoffs are linked to a recent unionization push in the province.

Supreme Court has been urged to issue directions to ensure expeditious disposal of cases against the lawmakers. The latest affidavit filed by senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, who has been appointed amicus curiae by the apex court in a PIL seeking expeditious disposal of criminal cases against MPs/MLAs, said that legislators have great influence on the investigation and/or trial of cases against them, and trials are not allowed to be concluded.