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Entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery’s board has reportedly turned down a nearly $60 billion takeover offer from Paramount Skydance, a source told Reuters on Tuesday (local time). The company also announced that it will now look at other options for a possible sale.The board had rejected a mostly cash offer of around $24 per share…
FILE – A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) OpenAI‘s announcement of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser, triggered a dramatic $150 billion plunge in Alphabet’s…
NEW DELHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) into India plunged by over 68% to $1.1 billion in Aug as gross investments fell 30%, while repatriations out of India held firm.As a result, on a net basis, there was FDI outflow of $616 million in Sept, compared with inflows of $1 billion a year ago, latest data…
File photo: US President Donald Trump with Argentina’s President Javier Milei (Picture credit: AP) Argentina’s central bank on Monday formalised a $20 billion currency swap agreement with the United States in a move aimed at “contributing to Argentina’s economic stability,” the bank said in a statement. The accord, backed by the administration of US President…
French luxury group Kering has agreed to sell its beauty division, including the high-end perfume brand Creed, to L’Oreal for $4.6 billion. The move marks a major step for Kering as it looks to tackle its growing debt.Under the agreement announced on Sunday, L’Oreal will also secure 50-year exclusive licences to make and sell beauty…
The Indian primary market has raised $14 billion through IPOs in CYTD25, down from $19 billion in 2024, Kotak Institutional Equities said in a report.So far, 80 companies have listed this year, compared with 91 in 2024, while offer-for-sale (OFS) deals accounted for $5.2 billion and fresh capital raises totalled $8.5 billion of the roughly…
Jewellery shopping in India is increasingly moving online, with consumers embracing digital platforms for gold, diamond, and lab-grown diamond purchases. Once dominated by neighbourhood jewellers and in-person sales, the market is seeing growing trust in hallmark certifications, brand assurances, and seamless services, making online purchases more acceptable.According to a FICCI-Deloitte report, 73 per cent of…
Scale AI shut down an entire team of contractors in its Dallas office this week, marking the latest restructuring at the startup since Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta invested $14.3 billion in the company in June. The shuttered team, known internally as the NPO or New Projects Organization, had over a dozen members who focused on generalist…
The proportion of gold within India’s foreign exchange reserves has seen a significant rise in the last ten years. (AI image) Gold’s record rally has helped India’s gold reserves value cross the $100 billion mark for the first time ever. The Reserve Bank of India‘s (RBI) latest foreign exchange reserves data reveals that India’s gold…
India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $2.176 billion to $697.784 billion in the week ended October 10, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.This marks the second consecutive weekly decline after reserves had dipped by $276 million in the previous week to $699.96 billion.According to RBI data, foreign currency…
