A majority of the companies that availed of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) moratorium are rated below investment grade and were already grappling with a slowing economy before the pandemic began. Crisil analysed over 2,300 non-financial companies from its rated portfolio that availed of the moratorium after categorising them by rating, sector and size. … Read more
Female managers remain woefully under-represented in the fund industry, but they’re doing a better job picking stocks than their male counterparts, at least this year. Among some 500 large-cap US mutual funds, those with at least one-third of manager positions held by women have beaten those with no women by 1 percentage point in 2020, … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $107 billion, but one of the lowest salaries at Facebook. Not including security and plane costs, the company he founded only pays him $1 a year in base salary. Meanwhile, many of Facebook’s other employees — from software engineers to product managers, copywriters, and lawyers — can expect … Read more
Berkshire said it acquired its stakes in Itochu Corp, Marubeni Corp, Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsui & Co and Sumitomo Corp over approximately 12 months Berkshire Hathaway Inc said it has acquired slightly more than 5% of the shares in five large Japanese companies, marking a departure for Chairman Warren Buffett as he looks outside the United … Read more
China’s tech giant Alibaba Group is unlikely to sign fresh deals in Indian companies in the coming months amid higher scrutiny on Chinese investments amid tension between the two nations, said a person familiar with the development. Alibaba is among other Chinese investors who have pulled the brakes on new investments in Indian startups after … Read more
Telecom consumer base in the country dipped to around 116.36 crore in May but service providers were able to narrow the loss of subscriber base to 57.6 lakh as compared to the previous month, according to data released by the sector regulator Trai on Wednesday. The telecom subscriber base had declined 85.3 lakh in April, … Read more
One stock market indicator shows investors haven’t been this bullish in at least 15 years, according to Goldman Sachs. Short interest in the S&P 500 has fallen to its lowest level since at least 2005, as the stock market hits record highs despite underlying weakness in the economy due to COVID-19. While short interest is … Read more
In a regulatory filing late Friday, ICICI Lombard said the boards of the two companies — ICICI Lombard and Bharti AXA General — had met on Friday and approved entering into definitive agreements for demerger of Bharti AXA’s non-life insurance business into ICICI Lombard through a Scheme of Arrangement. According to ICICI Lombard, the shareholders … Read more
To foray into the hospitality segment as well as expand its existing IT space offerings and add new exhibition centres. The company, which is into real estate, exhibition centre, food and beverages (F&B) and engineering businesses, is also planning to set up a convention hall at its Nesco Centre in Goregaon in suburban Mumbai. “We … Read more