Firms/companies
Morgan Stanley marks down its Flipkart holding by 38%
30 Nov 2016
A mutual fund managed by Morgan Stanley has sharply cut the value of its shares in India's largest e-retailer Flipkart for the fourth time over a period of a year, valuing the company at $5.5 billio
RBI caps monthly withdrawals from Jan Dhan accounts at Rs10,000
30 Nov 2016
Deposits in the 250 million-odd Jan Dhan accounts stood at Rs72,834.72 crore as of 23 November against Rs45,636 crore on 9 November
Shell mulls selling oil fields in Iraq
29 Nov 2016
Tata Steel UK to sell speciality steels business to Liberty House for £100 mn
28 Nov 2016
Tata Steel plans to keep the rest of the UK business including the strip products arm based in Port Talbot, and is in talks with ThyssenKrupp for a merger of their European steel operations
Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial close to buying controlling stake in Catholic Syrian Bank
28 Nov 2016
Samsung Electronics may consider split: report
28 Nov 2016
While the exact nature of restructuring is not known, Samsung Group is reported to have revived plans after Jay Y Lee took over reins from his father Lee Kun-hee, who was incapacitated following a May 2014 heart attack
JLR sees 10,000 new UK jobs with its new electric vehicles
26 Nov 2016
The Jaguar I-PACE Concept is an electric five-seat car with a predicted range of more than 500km, supercar looks, sports car performance and SUV space, whose production version will be revealed in later 2017 and will be on the roads in 2018
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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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