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Financial Express Kochi
PE, VC investment value up 9% in Oct, volume down
PRIVATE EQUITY AND venture capital investments in India rose 9% year-on-year to $5.3 billion across 102 deals in October 2025, according to an EY-IVCA report.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Funding squeeze takes a toll on microfinance
5 million pushed out of formal finance: MFIN
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Market-making in the works for sub-AAA bonds
RATING AGENCY CRISIL and the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) are working on a detailed proposal to establish a market-making framework for corporate bonds rated in the AA to BBB categories.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Economic growth surges to 8.2%
IN THE FIRST half of the current fiscal, private final consumption expenditure (PFCF) marginally improved its share in nominal GDP to 61.4% over the year-ago period, and largely stuck to the average of the three years to FY25.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Hong Kong blaze toll rises to 128
HONG KONG'S DEADLIEST fire in nearly eight decades has killed at least 128, officials announced shortly after making fresh arrests in connection with the blaze.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Amazon, Flipkart set sights on small loans space
E-commerce giants working on BNPL, other credit products
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
All eyes on RBI policy given record low inflation: Goyal
THE SUBDUED NOMINAL GDP growth of 8.7% in the September quarter has raised expecta- tions of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India in the December policy review.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Trump vows to freeze migration
A‘PERMANENT PAUSE’ ON MIGRATION FROM ALL ‘THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES’: US PRESIDENT
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Extra US tariff may go by year-end: Commerce secy
INDIA AND THE US are negotiating on two tracks to resolve their trade standoff, and the first one will likely address the 50% additional tariff on Indian exports by Decemberend, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said on Friday.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Airtel user addition in Oct jumps nearly 3x over Sept
BHARTI AIRTEL'S NET subscriber additions gathered momentum in October, with the telco adding 1.25 million new users during the month, up sharply from 437,717 in September, according to the latest subscriber data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
India emerging as key FWA market in Asia
INDIA'S FIXED WIRELESS access (FWA) market is emerging as one of the most compelling growth opportunities in Asia, as service quality begins to approximate that of fixed-line broadband and operators accel-
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
SCL Mohali to get ₹4,500-cr facelift
THE GOVERNMENT WILL invest ₹4,500 crore to modernise the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali over the next three years, Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Aakash puts share allotment to Byju’s parent firm on hold
AAKASH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (AESL) has deferred the allotment of shares to Think & Learn (TLPL), the parent company of Byju’s, as part of a ₹100-crore rights issue, citing potential violations of foreign exchange and external borrowing norms, according to a statement.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Nifty Next 50 ETFs give early exposure to future mega-cap leaders
FOR LONG-TERM INDEX INVESTORS, THIS WORKS AS AN EFFECTIVE STOCK-DIVERSIFIER
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Fiscal deficit widens to 52.6% in Apr-Oct; net tax revenue contracts
Required tax growth jumps to 31%
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Hong Kong’s identity quandary
Its financial sector has rebounded, with a high-flying Hang Seng Index and a return to the top spot in the global IPO rankings, but the city is still a diminished version of itself
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Classic soul, urban swagger
WHAT WAS THE NEED OF THE SCRAM 440 WHEN THERE WAS THE SCRAM 411?
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Home appliances biz to grow 3x in 3-5 years: Voltas
LEADING AIR CONDITIONER (AC) maker Voltas is looking to grow its ~2,300-crore home appliances business by more than threefold to ₹7,000-8,000 crore in the next 3-5 years, a top executive told FE. The company also aims to get into the top three club in home appliances, eyeing a wider presence in consumer durables.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Sebi reclassifies REIT as equity
BOOST FOR MF PARTICIPATION
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Current low inflation no sign of weak demand: CEA
Nominal GDP to strengthen in Q3 and 04
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Shareholder nod to ₹1,500-cr fundraise
OLA ELECTRIC SHAREHOLDERS have approved a special resolution to raise up to ₹1,500 crore via a securities issuance.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
In Defence of industry
ETHICS IN INDIGENISATION IS IMPORTANT BUT JUST BLAMING MANUFACTURERS IS UNFAIR
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Google drops EU complaint against Microsoft cloud
ALPHABET'S GOOGLE ON Friday dropped its EU antitrust complaint about rival Microsoft's cloud computing practices, a week after EU regulators launched an investigation to see if Microsoft should be subject to rules aimed at curbing its power in this sector.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Benchmarks log gains for third straight week
Q2 GDP BOOST SHOULD SUPPORT SENTIMENT IN NEAR TERM
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
GAIL slides as tariff hike lags expectations
THE PNGRB ON Thursday revised transmission tariffs for state-run GAIL to $65.69 per Million MMBtu, up 12% against the current tariff of %58.6 per MMBtu.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Budget to use current series GDP estimate
THE FIRST ADVANCE GDP estimate for FY26 on January 7 next year will continue to use the current 2011-12 base year, statistics secretary Saurabh Garg said on Friday.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Alibaba is a window into China's 2-speed economy
NO OTHER COMPANY embodies the promises and perils of China’s current growth model quite like Alibaba Group Holding. The technology giant’s most recent quarterly earnings are a textbook illustration of the contradictions of Beijing’s two-speed economy—both strong and shaky at the same time.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
RBI: Credit growth outpaces deposits
THE CREDIT GROWTH of the banking system continues to outpace its deposits, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed on Friday.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Ola Electric sales skid to 36-month low
OLA ELECTRIC'S RETAIL sales have fallen to their weakest level in three years, marking a sharp reversal for the electric two-wheeler maker after months of slowing demand, reports Nitin Kumar.
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November 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Why did Mahindra launch 70-kWh battery
TO TAKE ON HARRIER EV; MORE CHOICE FOR BUYERS
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