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Financial Express Bengaluru
RBI rejects SBI Cap plan to raise stake in Investec unit
THE RESERVE BANK of India has turned down a proposal by State Bank of India (SBI) to increase its stake in an institutional equities joint venture with a local unit of Investec, sources said.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Tech in the spotlight but Trump tariffs loom large
THEJAPAN MOBILITY Showis highlighting more than just cars or the types of fuel they use from electric to hydrogen, but also various kinds of futuristictransport.Think scuttling robotic chairs, like the Uni-One from Honda. The Tokyo-based maker of the Accord sedan says it is all about personal mobility as a mode for quick transport by 2035. Just sit on the boxlike machine as it zips around quietly.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Meta seeks $25 bn from bond sale
META PLATFORMS AIMS to sell at least $25 billion of investment-grade bonds on Thursday, a day after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg warned the company would spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the coming year.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Cobrapost claims ₹41,900-cr fund diversion at Anil Ambani group
INVESTIGATIVE PORTAL COBRAPOST on Thursday alleged Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group had committed a massive financial fraud exceeding ₹41,921 crore through diversion of funds from group companies since 2006 — a charge the group denied as a malicious campaign aimed at crashing stock prices.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Bigger, bolder, brighter
OUTDOOR AD SPENDING, BUOYED BY NEW-AGE FORMATS AND INNOVATIVE DISPLAYS, SURGED NEARLY 20% THIS FESTIVE SEASON
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Groww promoter stake valued at over ₹16,315 cr
BILLIONBRAINS GARAGE VENTURES, the owner of India’s largest brokerage platform Groww, is planning to raise %6,630 crore through an initial public offering (IPO).
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Is protecting ‘competitors’ over ‘competition’ creating regulatory uncertainty?
THE RECENT BOMBAY High Court judgement of 11 September 2025 against Asian Paints, upheld by the Supreme Court on October 13 2025, has attracted media attention. These verdicts have created a perception of regulatory uncertainty in corporate boardrooms, whether “competitors” are being protected at the cost of “competition” due to the High Court’s rejection of res judicata, a concept recently introduced by the Competition Amendment Act, 2023. Such perception can hinder our economy’s growth, warranting further debate.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
OIL Swabalamban: Empowering Youths, Shaping Futures
\"When a nation invests in the skills of its youth, it invests in the strength of its own future.\" Guided by this belief, Oil India Limited (OIL) has, for decades, invested deeply in the development of communities across its operational areas. Among its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, one project stands out as a shining example of sustained impact and human transformation- Project 'OIL Swabalamban'.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Building Sustainable and Inclusive Future with Indian PSUs
PSU-led CSR projects not only empower people in backward regions but also help strengthen urban development
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Jio users to get Gemini Pro free under RIL-Google deal
Move follows similar offers by Airtel-Perplexity & ChatGPT
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Yield jumps most in 6 weeks; rupee falls to fortnightly low
FED TURNS HAWKISH
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Engineering exports to US down 9.4% in September
Shipments of steel, iron robust
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
High gold prices hit demand
Exchange of old jewellery for new has resulted in a fall in imports
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
OpenAI may target $1-trn IPO valuation
OPENAI IS LAYING the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Fed split hardens following Powell’s December warning
FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR Jerome Powell’s blunt warning that investors need to rein in expectations for a December interest-rate cut underscored a growing tug-of-war among US policymakers who are opposed in their outlooks for jobs and inflation.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
FPIs flash renewed India comeback signal
BLOOMBERG DATASHOW that in January this year, the open interest of short contracts hit 445,114—the highest since September 2015.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
China's AI push has scale. But substance?
WHEN IT COMES to the sheer number of generative artificial intelligence users in China, the question shouldn’t be how many there are, but how they’re using it.Anew report from the China Internet Network Information Center indicates the nation had some 515 million users as of June, up by 266 million since December, according toa readout from Xinhua.Ata first glance, the figure suggests that Beijing’s push to spread the technology throughout industries to boost productivity — the so-called Al Plusinitiative — is bearing fruit.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Tighter cost control & higher exports drive Hyundai net up
Profit rises 14% to ₹1,572 cr in Q2, revenue grows 1%
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Jio users to get Gemini Pro free...
THE PLAN INCLUDES access to the Gemini 2.5 Pro model through the Gemini app, advanced image and video generation tools Nano Banana and Veo 3.1, expanded use of Notebook LM for research and study and 2 TB of cloud storage.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Trump cuts China tariffs by 10% after deal with Xi
Pause on rare earth curbs; Beijing to buy 12 mn tonne soybean
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
A bitter pill, not a pinch of salt
THE RULE OF THE GAME FOR THESE DEALS IS TO GIVE MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WE GET
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
US ends automatic work permit extension
VISA OVERHAUL ■ The rule takes effect immediately, requiring full re-screening for renewals ■ It follows Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee hike
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
'GDP growth to average 6.7% during 2025-2040'
INDIA'S ECONOMY IS expected to grow by an average rate of 6.7% from 2025 to 2040, outpacing China’s 3% average real GDP expansion in the same period, Singapore-based DBS Bank said in a report on Thursday.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
ITC Q2 profit rises 3% to ₹5,126 crore
REVENUE DECLINES 1.3% TO %21,256 CRORE
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
FPIs flash India comeback signal
Short positions at 3-month low
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
5,000 FPOs must have turnover above ₹1 cr by FY26: Chouhan
AGRICULTURE MINISTER SHIVRAJ Singh Chouhan on Thursday called for increasing annual sales turnover of at least 5,000 farmers producer organisations (FPOs) to above ₹1 crore each by FY26 for achieving economy of sale and financial sustainability.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Lenskart anchor book gets 20 times response
THE ANCHOR BOOK of Lenskart Solutions has received bids worth %68,000 crore, nearly 10 times the issue size and 20 times the anchor book size, according to sources.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Weddings to generate ₹6.5L cr this year
WEDDINGS IN INDIA will generate ₹6.5 lakh crore business from 4.6 million marriages in the first set of auspicious dates from November 1 to December 14 this year, as estimated by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Bank credit grows 11.45%, show RBI data
LOANS EXTENDED BY banks grew 11.45%year-on-year (YoY) as on October 17, continuing to outpace the growth in deposits, the Reserve Bank of India data released on Thursday showed.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Bengaluru
Union Bank sees 10% fall in profit
PUBLIC SECTOR LENDER Union Bank of India reported a 10% year-on-year (YoY) decline in net profit to ₹4,249 crore for the second quarter of FY26, compared to ₹4,719.7 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
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