MUMBAI: Most tech-driven financial services platforms faced outages during Friday’s high-intensity late session due to tech-glitch at Cloudflare, one of the companies that runs the internet globally. Traders in India faced issues with trade execution and cancellations on a day when the RBI policy and weekend considerations led to higher trading intensity than most other…
SpaceX might soon reach a $800 billion valuation as the rocket maker has began a new secondary share sale, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. In case it manages to reach the figure, SpaceX will rush ahead of OpenAI to become the most valuable private company in the US. The new valuation…
Elon Musk on Saturday slammed the European Union’s $140 million fine on his social media platform X, calling the penalty “crazy” and “insane” in a post on the site. Taking to the site, he said, “The EU imposed this crazy fine not just on @X, but also on me personally, which is even more insane!”“Therefore,…
Kolkata: 106-year-old Kesoram Industries, once the flagship of the B K Birla group, is being acquired by Frontier Warehousing, a city-based storage and logistics solutions company. The total value of the acquisition, as per stock exchange filings, would be close to Rs 100 crore.Frontier-owner Gautam Agarwal, told TOI he is drawing up plans for Kesoram,…
MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor Poonam Gupta has responded to recent IMF comments questioning the quality of India’s growth data and classifying the rupee’s exchange rate regime as a “crawling peg” within a managed float system.On the concern regarding data quality, Gupta said that the IMF’s critique is more procedural than substantive. “The point that they’re…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday directed their officials to accelerate negotiations on a “mutually beneficial” agreement for the promotion and protection of investments, with the matter taking centre stage during their summit meeting in New Delhi.A joint statement said the leaders also underscored both the current and future scope…
The US stock market edged closer to its all-time high on Friday, with Wall Street drifting toward the end of a relatively quiet week, AP reported. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in early trade, leaving it just 0.2% below its record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 46 points, or 0.1%, while the Nasdaq…
India has the potential to increase its merchandise exports to Russia seven-fold—from $5 billion to $35 billion by 2030—if it secures market access in food, pharmaceuticals, textiles and machinery, according to Global Trade and Research Initiative (GTRI) founder Ajay Srivastava. The report comes as President Vladimir Putin visits Delhi and as Moscow reiterates its goal…
Sebi on Friday proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) framework, aiming to streamline registrations and introduce an abridged application option for related funds, even as the regulator seeks to ease compliance for global investors.In a consultation paper, the Securities and Exchange Board of India said the move is intended to enhance…