Stock markets - world
Indian markets make history, surpassing the $4 trillion market cap milestone for the first time
29 Nov 2023
Indian markets soared to new heights on Wednesday, 29 November 2023, as they achieved the historic $4 trillion market cap milestone for the first time.
Warren Buffett's endorsement boosts Mitsubishi's image, easing conglomerate stereotypes in Japan
17 Nov 2023
Mitsubishi Corp., Japan's largest trading house, is experiencing a positive shift in investor sentiment, thanks to Warren Buffett's resounding vote of confidence.
Alibaba stock plummets as former CEO abruptly departs cloud unit just before IPO
11 Sep 2023
Alibaba’s stock on the Hong Kong stock exchange dropped more than 4% on Monday, 11 September 2023, following the unexpected resignation of Daniel Zhang,
UBS bails out Credit Suisse in $3.24 billion take-over
21 Mar 2023
Swiss regulator FINMA that offered guarantees to the acquisition said on Sunday that Credit Suisse will write off its $17 billion additional tier-one bonds as part of the deal
ReNew Power lists on Nasdaq at a valuation of $4.5 billion
25 Aug 2021
ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy company, got listed on the Nasdaq in the US on Tuesday, at a valuation of $4.5 billion,
Amazon’s Q2 net income doubles to $5.2 billion
03 Aug 2020
Oil fall pummels Saudi Aramco shares to below IPO levels
09 Mar 2020
Saudi official selling prices for crude fell $8-$10.25 below Brent, registering the sharpest fall in at least 20 years even as the Opec kingpin hinted at hiking production by more than 2 million barrels per day
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Lockheed Martin reports $1.5 bn Q4 net profit on $15.9 bn net sales
29 Jan 2020
Lokheed Martin ended 2019 with net sales of $59.8 billion, net earnings of $6.2 billion, and a record order backlog of $144.0 billion, and expects 2020 financial outlook to be even better
Charles Schwab to buy TD Ameritrade in $26-bn brokerage deal
27 Nov 2019
The combination of the two leading brokerages creating a company with $5 trillion in assets under management will squeeze the discount-led retail brokerage industry, and put smaller rivals under pressure
Microsoft announces $40 bn share buyback, hikes dividend
19 Sep 2019
Microsoft reported revenue of $125.8 billion for the financial year 2019, and a net income of $39.2 billion, setting a new record fiscal year, even as the trillion-dollar company returned $7.7 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019
Hong Kong Exchanges bids $39 bn for London Stock Exchange
11 Sep 2019
LSE CEO David Schwimmer has said that big bang takeovers in exchanges are difficult due to political concerns and LSE’s move to diversify
IMF researchers suggest an integrated capital market for Europe
11 Sep 2019
Lowering barriers to a European Capital Markets Union offers the prospect of bridging the interest rate differentials and other macroeconomic benefits, say IMF researchers
US labels China `currency manipulator’ as yuan sinks to a decade low
06 Aug 2019
Markets see the yuan’s fall as proof of China's willingness to let the yuan slide after US President Donald Trump vowed last week to impose 10 per cent tariffs on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports from 1 September
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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