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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The year 2024 was far from stellar for Indian stocks, particularly in retaining foreign investment. Towards the end of the year, as markets experienced a significant correction, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) began pulling their funds from Indian equities.

Asian stocks are mostly higher ahead of the Fed’s last rate decision this year

Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When the temperature drops, we layer up to stay warm, and our pets are just as dependent on us to ward off the chills. The cold can aggravate or trigger health problems.

Considering the upper price band of Rs 279, the stock is expected to see a premium of just over 57% on listing.

shares of Purple United Sales will debut on the NSE SME platform on Wednesday. Ahead of the listing, the company's shares were trading with a GMP of Rs 80 in the unlisted market. Considering the upper price band of Rs 126, the stock is expected to see a premium of just over 63% on listing.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have become the two wealthiest men in the world thanks to their breakthrough technology companies. But Musk, through SpaceX, has long held a big lead in the pursuit closest to their hearts: colonizing space. Now, their space race is entering a new era as Bezos approaches two milestones that, if successful, could chip away at Musk's dominance. Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is planning to soon launch New Glenn, a massive rocket that will compete directly with SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rockets. Then Amazon — founded by Bezos, who serves as its board's executive chair — is preparing to deploy Project Kuiper, the company's network of satellites that will challenge SpaceX's Starlink network in providing internet access from space in low Earth orbit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For decades, a global guessing game has focused on whether the people of China will tire of single-party rule. Any failure to sustain a heady pace of economic expansion, went one hypothesis, would stir mass discontent and put its Communist regime on notice.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as hopes grow of the Federal Reserve cutting rates, the US central bank may have a happy problem. Economic growth just isn’t weakening enough for it to justify continued cuts.

Kuwait is also home to a large Indian diaspora and was a key supplier of liquid medical oxygen to India during the deadly Delta wave of Covid in 2021. There are plans to put in place a maritime component to the partnership. Regional developments including the situation in Gaza and Syria are expected to figure in the discussion agenda during the PM’s visit.

Honda and Nissan are in talks to set up a holding company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, a move that would allow them to share more resources amid competition upending the global industry. The talks, first reported by the Nikkei newspaper, would allow the two automakers to cooperate more closely on technology at a time when the industry is being rewritten by the likes of Tesla and Chinese rivals. The talks are aimed at setting up an umbrella holding company that Nissan and Honda would then fall under, said the person, who declined to be identified because the information had not been made public.

Grasim Industries and Punjab & Sind Bank are set to raise up to ₹5,000 crore between them through 10-year bonds in two separate transactions on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the proposed issuances. Grasim Industries, the flagship company of Aditya Birla Group, a conglomerate with $100-billion market capitalisation, is looking to raise ₹2,000 crore at a coupon rate of around 7.21%, the sources said.

U.S. stock indexes closed lower and gave back some of their stellar gains for the year

The Federal Trade Commission says it will soon require hotels, vacation rental platforms and live event promoters to disclose any fees up front when they list prices

The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is charged with murder as an act of terrorism

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the incoming Trump administration should proceed cautiously as it considers proposals for new natural gas export terminals

New England shrimp will come back to seafood counters in small amounts next year under a research fishing program

In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January

The federal government says it plans to boost penalties for money laundering by 40 times as part of several measures it wants to roll out to crack down on the issue.

Normally when the days get colder, the housing market goes into hibernation, but apparently not this year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been declining for nine straight days, heading for its longest losing streak since February 1978. What is going on and how concerned should investors be?