Beneath the grand chandeliers of the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, at rooftop bars and at private parties at billionaires’ mansions, there was a mix of emotions among the financial titans gathered in Los Angeles this week. Many of the thousands of attendees at the Milken Institute Global Conference — a who’s who…
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries withdrew its application to trademark “Operation Sindoor” – the codename for India’s military strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan – on Thursday after facing social media outrage.On Wednesday, RIL filed an application with India’s patent registry under class 41, seeking to use the phrase for entertainment services like content creation, sporting activities,…
More than 20 times during a roughly 45-minute news conference on Wednesday, Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, referenced the idea of waiting to see how President Trump’s policies would ripple through the economy before taking any action on interest rates. Mr. Powell, who spoke after the Fed opted to extend a…
BENGALURU: Ajoy Chawla will take charge as Titan‘s new managing director, effective Jan 1 next year. The current MD, CK Venkataraman’s term, will conclude on Dec 31 this year, adhering to the Tata Group’s retirement guidelines upon reaching superannuation age.Since becoming CEO of Titan’s jewellery division in 2019, Chawla has led the division to significant…
The United States and Britain announced on Thursday that they had reached a deal that would reduce tariffs on some imports, such as steel, cars and ethanol, and deepen the economic relationship between the two countries. There was plenty of mutual congratulating between President Trump in the Oval Office and Keir Starmer, the British prime…
Mumbai: RBI has eased investment restrictions for foreign portfolio investors in the corporate debt market. This move is likely to deepen market liquidity and align India more closely with global capital flows. RBI announced it will remove both the short-term investment cap and the concentration limit that previously applied to FPIs investing through the general…
A prominent Silicon Valley investor is in a bitter dispute with his former employer, one of the world’s largest asset managers, accusing it of fraud and attempted bribery. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in California, Josh Raffaelli, who until late last year was a fund manager at Brookfield Asset Management, said the company had…
BENGALURU: Netherlands-based global tech investor Prosus invested over $8.6 billion in India, making it one of its strategic markets, CEO Fabricio Bloisi said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.The update follows Swiggy’s IPO last year and a recent investment in the ride-hailing platform Rapido, which Bloisi said is growing over 100% year-on-year and facilitating…
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States intended to sign a trade deal with Britain that would bring the two nations closer and roll back some of the punishing tariffs he issued on that country’s products. Both sides consider a trade pact deeply beneficial, and a deal has been under discussion since Mr….
MUMBAI: Urban consumption, which has been under pressure on the back of high inflation that pushed consumers to cut back on spending, “decelerated” further in the March quarter, weighing on the volume growth of companies, NielsenIQ said in its quarterly FMCG snapshot on Thursday.Rural demand boosted spending on lotions, shampoos, and detergents, even as high…
