President Joe Biden’s team has been wrestling for months with various ways to ease the costs of duties imposed on Chinese imports during predecessor Donald Trump’s tenure, as it tries to tamp down skyrocketing inflation. It has considered a combination of eliminating some tariffs, launching a new “Section 301” investigation into potential areas for additional … Read more
Putting in big long term targets is in fancy and Vedanta is not the one to be left behind. Addressing shareholders at the company’s 57th AGM, Anil Agarwal, the chairman has set the target of $100 bn, i.e., approx Rs 8 lakh crore revenues by 2030. Company reported revenues of Rs 1.33 lakh crore in … Read more
Investor Mark Cuban said buying metaverse land is “the dumbest shit ever.” Virtual real estate exploded in popularity last year, with companies like Sandbox selling property. But the metaverse is nowhere close to materializing, and interest in it appears to be waning. Something is loading. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is out on digital land purchases. … Read more
Elon Musk offloaded $6.9 billion worth of stock in Tesla Inc. to accumulate cash ahead of a trial that could force the billionaire to follow through on an agreement to acquire Twitter Inc. Tesla’s chief executive officer sold about 7.92 million shares during the last three days of trading, according to regulatory filings. Musk, who … Read more
According to a regulatory filing, AU Small Finance Bank has raised about ₹2,000 crore from qualified institutional investors, falling short of its goal of up to ₹2,500 crore. Among those that participated in the qualified institutional placement (QIP) were DSP, the Singaporean government, Goldman Sachs, and ICICI Prudential Life. The bank reported that on Tuesday, … Read more
Ronnie Screwvala-led edtech unicorn upGrad said it has raised a funding of $210 million from marquee investors and Family Offices who join the company cap-table. This round has witnessed participation from ETS Global (world’s largest TOEFL & GRE Test Leader), Bodhi Tree (a JV of James Murdoch & Uday Shankar), Singapore’s Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. … Read more
Indostar has finally submitted it’s quarter and year ended March 31, 2022 results. (It’s pertinent to remind here that currently the Company has been going through a self initiated independent review wrt to the credit process/ operational lapses.) As is typical in such scenarios, everyone wants to play safe and auditor of the Company (Deloitte … Read more
The U.S. Senate narrowly passed President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday, aiming to cut government deficits and consumer medical bills while boosting climate-change spending, increasing corporate income taxes and creating a new 1% levy on stock buybacks. The measure passed on a party-line 51-50 vote, with all Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in the … Read more
With Citibank’s credit card spends share falling to 3.9% in June from 4.8% a year ago, analysts said may have overpaid for the Citi retail assets deal. During the same period, Axis Bank’s market share has increased to 9.3% from 8.3%, according to Reserve Bank of India data. “We remain concerned about the steady decline … Read more