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TORONTO — Toronto-Dominion Bank Group says it expects to earn about US$141 million in equity net income in its first quarter of 2024 from its holdings in Charles Schwab Corp. as U.S. banks report earnings.

For the first time in more than two decades, the Canada Revenue Agency’s prescribed interest rate for overdue taxes has hit double digits — 10 per cent for the first quarter of 2024. The last time the prescribed rate was so high was back in mid-2001.

More than a half a million beds sold at retailers like Walmart and Wayfair are under recall because they can break during use, which has resulted in dozens of injuries

City governments in India must focus attention on the planning of inclusive, safe and efficient public transportation if they want residents to be healthy and lead economically productive as well as socially active lives. Whether citizens choose to walk, drive or use a train, proper planning is necessary for them to reach their destinations fast and safe. If their needs are met by public transportation, people opt for public modes; otherwise, for private vehicles.

CogniCor, which provides digital assistants for the financial services industry, has launched digital assistants for the wealth management and insurance industries powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service, the company announced Thursday.

By Manya Saini, Niket Nishant and Lananh Nguyen

I am a risk manager, both literally and figuratively. Literally, since whether it is with our own funds and strategies or allocations for individual investor clients, or with my trading book back when I worked on Wall Street, the hard constraints are always capital, capital, and capital and so managing risk is part of how you make sure you don’t lose that capital.

Maxposure IPO: Maxposure IPO's share allotment has been finalised on Thursday, January 18. The investors who had applied for the IPO can check their allotment status on the issue's registrar Bigshare Service website as well as on BSE. Investors can find out if and how many shares they have been given through the basis of allotment.

BENGALURU, NEW DELHI : Extreme caution among clients in the global market has sparked a slowdown across verticals in the IT industry, Debashis Chatterjee, managing director and chief executive officer of LTIMindtree said. The trend is reflected in LTIMindtree’s quarterly earnings as well. The company’s target of achieving 17-18% operating margin by this quarter is being pushed back due to the slowdown, and this could also impact its long-term $10-billion revenue goal, Chatterjee said in a post-earnings interview.

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company

By Howard Schneider

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Nearby Stars’ Close Encounters with the Brightest Earth Transmissions, Reilly Derrick and Howard Isaacson, 18 April 2023). The calculations are intricate, involving the trajectories of the spacecraft as well as the stars (the “ephemerides" of these objects). In this way, the study found that Pioneer 11 will “encounter" 411 stars in the GCNS, Voyager 2, 325; Voyager 1, 289; Pioneer 10, 241; and New Horizons, 142.

IndiGo Airlines' Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers on Thursday said the airline's operations will be completely back to normal by the weekend and in due course of next week as flight cancellations over fog-related disruptions in northern India in recent days have come down. Speaking to the media on the sidelines of ‘Wings India 2024’, an aviation conclave and exhibition, at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Elbers said the airline industry witnessed probably the worst fog in many years, impacting flight operations, which has become a challenge. "...If you see, I am sure all of you have seen that...we had probably the worst fog in many years...Many of our stations in northern India were severely impacted by the fog situation...If northern India is under a blanket of deep fog, we are having a challenge," the Indigo CEO said.

₹145.60 apiece on the BSE. Similarly, shares of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) surged significantly and were locked at five per cent upper circuit to hit a 52-week high mark of ₹461.80 apiece on the BSE. Also Read: ‘Oil markets well supplied’, says IEA as it raises 2024 global demand forecast; projects lower than OPEC Additionally, shares of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) rose around three per cent to hit an intraday high of ₹480.75 against a 52-week high of ₹482.05 apiece on the BSE.

₹2 lakh ex-gratia Distressed by the loss of lives due to a boat capsizing at the Harni lake in Vadodara. My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of grief. May the injured recover soon.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has sought a report from the state Chief Secretary on preparedness on January 22, the day of «pran pratishtha» in Ayodhya temple will take place.

IPO and sending shares tumbling as much as 14%. Executives on a call said the company planned to raise prices on its sandals and clogs this year after it had «underestimated the inflation effects» in fiscal 2023. Birkenstock expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) margin of about 30% for 2024, citing a «modest headwind» from costs tied to investments. That compares with adjusted EBITDA margin of 32.4% for fiscal 2023, which was the first drop in four years. The margin outlook for 2024 is «conservative,» executives said. «The company is guiding to… a hurdle with respect to taking profitability down more than expected next year,» said Jason Benowitz, senior portfolio manager at CI Roosevelt. So overall «these results were just not strong enough to sort of justify the current premium that was in the shares.» The stock ended about 19% higher in 2023 after a weak market debut in October. «The IPO price had already baked in a lot in terms of future upside, and until we see the company deliver as well as exceed those expectations it's hard to see the share price move further,» said Swetha Ramachandran, who manages a global consumer brands portfolio at Artemis Fund Managers in London. However, Birkenstock forecast 2024 revenue to be between 1.74 billion euros and 1.76 billion euros, above analysts' expectations of 1.72 billion euros. Demand for Birkenstock's footwear, which retails for as much as $350 a pair, has remained resilient and the company has also benefited from efforts to boost sales through its own website and stores. Unit growth was 6% in 2023 while average selling price increased 14% since fiscal 2022, driven by higher full-price sales. Quarterly revenue

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Reserve Bank has called upon internal ombudsmen of banks, NBFCs, and CICs to provide inputs for enhancing internal systems and processes. As part of the Reserve Bank's continuing engagement with regulated entities, the second Conference of Internal Ombudsmen on the theme 'Orchestrating Customer Delight through an Empowered Internal Ombudsman', was held in Mumbai on January 16, 2024.

India is collaborating with «friendly» countries on leveraging Artificial intelligence for enhancing defence capabilities, the head of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Thursday. Speaking to ANI, Samir V Kamat explained that India is working with other countries on developing tools as well as fundamental research in improving the algorithm which goes into AI. Talking about the applications of AI in the defence sector, the DRDO chief said that Artificial Intelligence helps in preventive maintenance, surveillance and cyber security. «It is playing an increasing role in the offensive action. It is a technology which is going to make a big difference not only in improving the performance of the military but also in its efficiency,» he said. When asked whether India is working with other countries on leveraging AI to enhance defence capabilities, Kamat said: «We are working in collaboration with countries which are friendly to us.

Ph.D. scholars, with an aim to incentivising research. The institute announced a 20-25% increase in stipends for the scholars enrolled in IIMK’s Doctoral Programme in Management (DPM), which leads to the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) as per the latest proposal approved by the institute’s Board of Governors. IIMK’s DPM is a full-time, residential, and fully financed doctoral programme.