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Ikea's Greene-Sykes on Authenticity and Female Empowerment in Business

In Focus: Marketing Hall of Femme honoree Leontyne Greene-Sykes, Ikea U.S.'s former chief marketer, discusses keys to success for female marketers, and misconceptions about marketing.




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Elon Musk does it again: Tesla CEO wipes nearly $15 billion in m-cap with this tweet

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to micro-blogging website Twitter and said that the company’s stock was overvalued which later resulted in a sharp decline in the share prices of the company.




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Pandemic fallout: Downgrades rise, no let-up seen in FY21

At 21 downgrades a day between January and April, Corporate India’s finances continue to remain under pressure.




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Sensex, Nifty plunge 5%, track global markets; key factors behind rout on Dalal Street

After opening nearly 3 per cent higher, RIL share price slipped 1.90 per cent in Mondays' trade. American private equity firm Silver Lake Partner announced an investment of Rs 5,655.75 crore in Reliance Jio.




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Nifty Bank drops 950 points from day’s high; check what led to last hour sell-off on Dalal Street

Nifty is approaching its support zone of 9100-9000 levels, however, any violation of this will cause further weakness towards 8800 levels




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Gold prices rise today, snap three-day losing streak despite ease in lockdown restrictions in India

On MCX, gold June futures rose Rs 37 to Rs 45,788 per 10 grams. Similarly, silver July futures were trading Rs 403 or 0.96 per cent higher at Rs 42,299 per kg




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Sensex, Nifty off day’s highs, slip into red; know what’s keeping investors edgy today

Most of the sectoral indices were trading in deep sea of red. Nifty FMCG index dropped 1.33 per cent weighed by Godrej Consumer Properties, Britannia, Dabur India and Marico.




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Sun Pharma, Aurobindo Pharma among top stock picks from Pharma sector; CLSA sees gain up to 30%

Among pharma stocks, the top stock picks of CLSA are Sun Pharma, Cipla, Aurobindo Pharma and Cadila Healthcare, recommending a 'buy' rating on them




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Eyes on offshore currency market as NSE, BSE start trading rupee-dollar derivative on subsidiaries

The National Stock Exchange’s subsidiary NSE IFSC and the Bombay Stock Exchange’s India INX on Friday launched trading in the Indian Rupee-US Dollar Futures & Options contact.




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Spectrum dues: No corporate guarantee, need bank guarantee, DoT to Voda-Idea

The department of telecommunications (DoT) is understood to have turned down the offer of Vodafone Idea to furnish a corporate guarantee instead of a bank guarantee to cover its deferred spectrum installment for the current fiscal.




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Amazon sees demand for electrical devices, clothes, work-from-home enablers after relaxation

Amazon on Monday said the company is seeing demand for various kinds of smart devices and other products like electrical appliances, clothes and work from home enablers in the orange and green zones.




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Franklin Templeton effect: Credit risk funds see AUM decline by Rs 19,000 crore in April

Credit risk funds have seen assets decline by nearly Rs 19,000 crore in April as investors rushed to redeem their money after the closure of six debt schemes by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, data showed.




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Investors may need to take control of Zee Learn from promoters: IiAS

A proxy advisory firm has raised objections to the corporate governance structure at Zee Learn, part of the Essel group, expressing concerns over the company’s capital allocation decision, related-party transactions and acquisition of MT Educare.




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Maharashtra govt withdraws decision to allow sale of BT Cotton seeds from May 1

The decision was taken after the state agriculture department approached the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur, seeking advice against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the country.




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Lockdown relaxation: E-commerce firms see demand for non-essentials rise manifold

Consumer demand for non-essential products with e-commerce firms has increased manifold after the government last Friday lifted the ban on sale of such products by e-tailers.




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New benchmark bonds likely to see coupon below 6%, say experts

A Barclays report estimates that the central government’s revenue benefit from the additional hikes in fuel taxes could be as much as Rs 1.4 lakh crore on an annual basis.




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Steps taken by Sebi deepened debt markets, says Amfi

Since Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund closed six debt schemes on April 23, there has been a rush by the investors to redeem the money from several categories of debt schemes like credit risk funds and low duration funds.




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New jobs: Choosing a stock market as a career

As a stock market is one of the key barometers that represent the health of any economy, the growth story of India coupled with the current low rate of penetration in the stock markets suggests that there will be increased demand for professionals in this sector.



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How to work from home, explains Pradeep Chavda, HR director, Sodexo India

Making mindful choices might involve a bit more efforts, but it’s better than the hours spent running to work. Working from home, with right planning and efforts, can be as productive as working from office.




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WiFi usage down marginally in weeks starting March 9, shows Opensignal data

The decrease in WiFi usage can also be attributed to people staying at homes.




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Now streaming, more than ever: Netflix, Amazon, others need to up their game

OTT platforms see a surge in consumption and subscriber count, as viewers seek fresh content.




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Airtel tops the chart on download speed: Opensignal report

Airtel emerged on the top in terms of latency experience with an average response time of 54.1 milliseconds, followed by Jio at 56.3 ms.




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Covid-19 could hardly dent the earnings of Darjeeling first flush

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has allowed resuming operations in the gardens of Darjeeling, Doars and Terai with a workforce of 25%.




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Techsplained @FE: What is edge computing? How it works and why we need it

Now, any developer could create an app and run it on Amazon, Microsoft or Google’s servers and make millions or billions in the process.




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How Google Meet helps keep your video conferences protected

Google Meet deploys a range of counter-abuse protection features, ensuring the safety of meetings.




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Netflix sees ‘big growth’ in India as subscribers binge on local content

According to data released by market research firm Kalagato, user engagement on Netflix shot up to as much as 80 minutes a day as of March 28 from a little under 50 minutes on February 5.




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Extended validity: Incoming calls only for pre-paid, needy users

The Cellular Operators Association of India had said that the operators had incurred a cost of Rs 600 crore by such extension.




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Restaurants’ body launches scheme to support members, their employees

The virtual cash can be used within six months from the purchase date, with limitless purchases and no minimum expenditure amount, blackout dates or redemption conditions.




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Amazon, Flipkart, other e-tailers allowed to sell non-essentials in orange, green zones

E-commerce firms have been urging the government to allow sale of non-essentials like smartphones, electronic and stationary items on the premise that access to the items have become necessary as Corporate India shifted to work from home while students moved to online classes.




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Indian rupee falls 31 paise against US dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange

The Indian rupee weakened by 31 paise to 62.64 against the US dollar today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on month-end demand for the...




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Amazon India’s Amit Agarwal: Have seen reduction in cash-on-delivery after demonetisation

We don't really drive our strategy based on what's happening around. Our approach is to give maximum return on investments to our sellers




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India Vs Windies 2018: Kuldeep Yadav shines as India beat Windies in T20 opener

Kuldeep Yadav performed brilliantly in the first T20 against the Windies to ensure India registered a comfortable win over the visitors.




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Development of engineering exports segment dampening actual steel use

On a similar note, India is trying hard to develop indigenous capacity (Make in India) for machineries and equipment required for, say, new steel capacity augmentation. Otherwise, the large scale of imports of capital goods in the form of machines and equipment for steel plants would have to continue by spending huge foreign exchange and make India import dependent.




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Oil market should reach balance between supply and demand in Q1: UAE energy minister

Opec, Russia and other non-Opec producers — an alliance known as Opec+ —agreed to reduce supply by 1.2 million bpd from January 1.




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Oil imports: Opportunity for India as sanctions-hit Venezuela seeks to double exports

Caracas, which buys medicines and other products from India, is looking for alternative payment methods after the United States imposed stringent sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA in a bid to push out President Nicolas Maduro.




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Analyst Corner: Valuations of AIA Engineering will remain rich – IDFC Securities

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.




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Govt to sell up to 3% stake in Axis Bank to meet Rs 80,000 cr disinvestment target

At the end of December 2018, Suuti held a 9.56% stake in Axis Bank. The OFS is part of the government’s move to meet its disinvestment target of Rs 80,000 crore for FY19.




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Not so sweet! Millers’ sugar offer in lieu of FRP fails to cheer farmers

Sugarcane arrears in Maharashtra have now mounted to Rs 5,000 crore and industry sources claim the position is likely to worsen.




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SBI is geared to meet any additional demand for housing loans

The bank, which witnessed a spike in NPAs in its home loan portfolio post the merger of the associate banks, expects the NPA levels to dip with improvements in underwriting and recoveries.




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Cyclone Fani impact: Surat textile industry reels from Rs 500-crore losses

To make matters worse, a sizeable number of labourers from Odisha are employed in the Surat textile industry, said Ashish Gujarati, president of Pandesara Weavers' Association.




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Steel pricing spread helps assertain strength of variables

In the next three decades the deregulation of the steel market (abolition of freight equalisation) and imports having been put under open general license led to a paradigm shift to the concepts of supply, capacity creation through differential technologies, SME’s role, demand assessments, competitiveness, pricing and export strategies.




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Bankers see opportunity in MSMEs – here’s how

The extent to which banks are using data to lend to SMEs can grow dramatically as almost every bank is working towards this initiative as there is a big opportunity, said the SBI chairman.




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Avanti Feeds: Maintain ‘Buy’ with a target price of Rs 400

We note the stock price correction of 30% over the past four months offers an attractive entry price and we retain our 'Buy' rating with a DCF-based target price of Rs 400.




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Tupperware’s Deepak Chhabra on life beyond work

iPhone, Bose, Alexa are some of his favourite brands




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Marketing a Smoke-Free Future

Philip Morris International became the world's leading tobacco brand by selling...well, cigarettes. Now it's planning on a smoke-free future




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Designing minimum income guarantee post-Covid-19 collapse

Transfer amounts should also be linked to CPI. While PM-KISAN covers only farmers and is much more expensive and exclusive, such a transfer would avoid narrow coverage, also avoiding inclusion/exclusion errors




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Inside Track: Amid COVID-19 crisis, steps seem afoot to ensure Rahul Gandhi returns as Congress president

The impression was reinforced when Rajnath Singh, and not Shah, was appointed last month to head the 15- member high-power ministerial committee coordinating with states on ensuring movement of essential supplies during the lockdown.




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Magnanimity of the rich: Cricket needs to take a leaf out of tennis’s book to maintain equilibrium

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts




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Need faster labour reforms if the economy is to thrive

Parliamentary panel’s recommendations aren’t bold enough, and in some areas, they are even regressive.




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Dial-A-Doctor: eSanjeevani portal for telemedicine a welcome move by govt

As more governments integrate the service—Himachal Pradesh was latest to do so, on April 21—one can expect traffic to increase.