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Zoom Projects Annual Sales Signaling Growth After Pandemic
(Bloomberg) — Zoom Video Communications Inc. projected annual revenue that would top analysts’ estimates, signaling the video meeting service expects…
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Round-the-World Cruises Are Selling Out More Than a Year in Advance
(Bloomberg) — After a year of isolation and lockdowns, four months on a ship is looking pretty good to cruise super fans.…
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How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Things That Kill Us
At 500,000 and counting, U.S. Covid fatalities are now a lot higher than annual deaths from most of those other…
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South Korea’s Coupang Seeks Up to $3.6 Billion in New York IPO
(Bloomberg) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $3.6 billion from an initial…
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Industry Charts: CARE Ratings
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Fed’s Brainard Sets Out Reform Plan for Covid-Stressed Markets
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard described a broad regulatory reform agenda for the coming months aimed at fixing…
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This Company Helps Roughnecks Find Renewable Energy Jobs
(Bloomberg) — Alfred Burt grew up following his father across the oil patches of Texas. He carried on the family tradition,…
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Sugar Industry Update: Care Ratings
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U.K. Mortgage Approvals Ease as End of Tax Relief Approaches
(Bloomberg) — U.K. mortgage approvals dipped in January as the end of a tax cut on property purchases approached. Banks…
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MTAR Technologies IPO – A Strong Player In Booming High Precision Engineering: Geojit
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India’s Q3 GDP Data Points At Multi-Speed Recovery: ICICI Securities
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India’s Manufacturing PMI Remains Steady In February
A gauge of activity across India’s manufacturing sector remained steady despite cost inflation pressures. The IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing…
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Nestle India – Sustained Share Of New Products, Increasing Rural Focus: Motilal Oswal
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Why Higher Crude Prices Alone Won’t Determine Fortunes Of ONGC, Oil India
Some analysts, however, expect demand to taper if oil prices remain above the $75-mark. Probal Sen, oil and gas analyst…
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The Bird Flu Virus That Has Infected People in Russia
(Bloomberg) — New strains of influenza are constantly emerging. Although the virus is associated with winter epidemics of respiratory disease…
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A Property Boom Built on Invisible Slums
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A booming stock market at a time of pandemic recession and widening inequality is an unfortunate combination,…
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Want Fries With That Recovery? Why Services Are Key to Economy
(Bloomberg) — Wall Street’s most bullish economic forecasts hang on a simple prediction: everybody will flood back soon to their…
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Discom Dues To Power Producers Rise 24% To Rs 1.36 Lakh Crore In December
Total dues owed by electricity distribution companies to power producers rose nearly 24% over a year earlier to Rs 1,36,966…
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Thinkpad: Growth, Inflation And Tantrums
Happy Sunday! This week really packed a punch. To avoid wasting word limits, we’ll get straight to it. The inevitable…
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Two-Wheeler Sales Growth Slowed In February, Say Analysts
Domestic sales of two-wheelers slowed in February as commodity prices surged and pent-up demand waned, according to estimates by four…
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How Past Vaccine Races Can Help Win This One
(Bloomberg Opinion) — “The vaccine works. It is safe, effective, and potent.” In 1955, those were the words that told…
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U.S. Clears J&J Vaccine; Brazil Capital Locks Down: Virus Update
Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine was cleared for use in the U.S., making a third shot available that could plug…
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India Q3 GDP: Economists’ Take
India’s GDP grew after two straight quarters of contraction. But the Q3 data threw up a few surprises. Government expenditure…
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Israeli-Owned Cargo Ship Struck by Explosion in Persian Gulf
(Bloomberg) — An unexplained blast struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, at a time of rising frictions…
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Mumbai Airport To Resume Domestic Flight Operations From T-1 From March 10
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport will resume domestic flight operations from Terminal-1 from the second week of March, the private…
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Conservative Power Couple Wage Legal War on Stolen-Election Myth
(Bloomberg) — A pair of self-described conservative lawyers are leading the fight to shut down the U.S. election conspiracy theory,…
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RBI Calls Digital Currencies A Mixed Blessing
The Reserve Bank of India sees a central bank-backed digital currency as a mixed blessing—such virtual tokens can take away…
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The Right Mantra For Tax Saving + Wealth Creation
*This is in partnership with BloombergQuint BrandStudio It’s that time of the year again—the financial year is coming to an…
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Nestle Considers Options To Directly Sell To Consumers
Nestle India Ltd. is exploring options to sell directly to consumers as the pandemic forced people to turn to the…
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India Beats China at Its Own Game in Vaccine Diplomacy Fight
(Bloomberg) — India’s huge capacity to make coronavirus vaccines is helping the country take on China in the battle to…
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Bond Rout Shows Risk of Uneven Recovery in World’s Top Economies
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy appears primed to recover from the Covid-19 slump much faster than others, causing havoc on…
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Home Sales In Mumbai Region Jump 33% In January
Home sales in the Mumbai region surged in January as the stamp duty cut and low rates continue to drive…
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Judge in Google Case Disturbed That Even ‘Incognito’ Users Are Tracked
(Bloomberg) — When Google users browse in “Incognito” mode, just how hidden is their activity? The Alphabet Inc. unit says…
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European Demand Recovery Key To Oil, Gross Refining Margin Outlook: ICICI Securities
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Auto Channel Check – CV, PV Demand Healthy, Two-Wheeler Weak: Prabhudas Lilladher
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Auto Wholesale Demand Momentum Sustained For PVs, CVs, Tractors In February: Motilal Oswal
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Coronavirus India Updates: Active Cases Rise Above 1.5 Lakh Amid Immunisation Efforts
Active cases of Covid-19 in India rose for the sixth time in eight days amid fears of a second wave…
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Crypto Firm Kraken Seeks Roughly $10 Billion Valuation
(Bloomberg) — Kraken is in talks to raise new funding in a move that would more than double the cryptocurrency…
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Dell, HP Say PC Surge to Continue Even in Return to School, Work
(Bloomberg) — Dell Technologies Inc. and HP Inc. reported earnings buoyed by a resurgent personal computer demand they projected will…
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California Deaths Hit 50,000; NYC School Cases Low: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden said the federal government will distribute Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine as fast as the company…
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Democrats Eye Permanent Child Credit Expansion: Stimulus Update
(Bloomberg) — Democratic lawmakers said they’d work on making the expanded child tax credit in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion…
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China Builders Soar on Land Rules Seen to Favor Big Players
(Bloomberg) — Shares of Chinese developers soared after at least two cities released new land sales rules that may benefit…
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Facebook, Netflix Face Fresh Scrutiny as India Tightens Grip
(Bloomberg) — India joined the global regulatory push to rein in Silicon Valley technology giants, tightening rules that govern how…
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Inflation Is Uncontainable But Not Inevitable
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Otherwise intelligent people can be surprisingly wrong about economics. The latest example is the claim that current…
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Trading Halt: SEBI Assures Underlying Causes, Including Institutional Deficiencies, Will Be Addressed
A day after technical glitches halted trading at NSE for around four hours, market regulator SEBI on Thursday affirmed it…
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Fed’s Digital Dollar Would Look Nothing Like Bitcoin
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently mentioned the idea of creating a so-called digital dollar — a new…
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Sundaram Finance’s Growth Catalyst Visible: ICICI Direct
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Government Notifies New Rules For Social Media, Digital News And OTT Platforms
Experts View While the fine print of the rules is yet to be made public, some experts said regulation of…
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India’s Economic Recovery Sustains; Growth May Turn Positive In Q4 FY21: Nirmal Bang
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Infra.Market Becomes India’s Latest Unicorn After $100-Million Fundraising
Infra.Market has raised $100 million in a growth round led by led by Tiger Global, valuing the procurement marketplace for…
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