MUMBAI: A surge in gold loans may partly reflect borrower stress, with lenders allowing customers already in deep delinquency to borrow against gold and repay overdue loans, Macquarie said in a report. The trend raises questions about whether gold-backed lending is driven by consumption or income-generating needs or is merely helping borrowers manage debt by…
SpaceX is valued at more than $2 trillion, while Tesla has a market value of about $1.5 trillion. Elon Musk openly endorsed the prospect of combining SpaceX with Tesla Inc in what would be the biggest-ever corporate merger, uniting assets from electric cars to AI data centres to rocket and satellite capabilities. The world’s richest…
Core sector grew 7.9% in Sept, compared with 3.1% a year ago, driven by strong performance in electricity, cement and refinery products and aided by a favourable base as well, official data released Tuesday showed. Sequentially, the growth marked acceleration from an upwardly revised figure of 5.9% in Aug. This is the strongest performance of…
eMudhra certificates blocked by Google and Mozilla BANGLURU/ NEW DELHI: Bengaluru-based digital trust and cybersecurity company eMudhra has acknowledged a cryptographic flaw that generated weak private keys linked to eight intermediate digital certificates in its global website-certificate business, potentially allowing attackers to impersonate legitimate websites. Shares fell 20% on BSE.The company said the affected TLS…
MUMBAI: The Oct Monetary Policy Committee minutes show that the governor and RBI members were more hawkish than the two external members, who favoured retaining the ‘neutral’ stance rather than shifting to ‘calibrated tightening’, arguing that inflation was driven predominantly by supply-side factors.RBI’s MPC voted unanimously to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points…
MUMBAI: For the first time since March 2025, RBI on Wednesday rejected all the 224 bids in the three treasury-bill (T-bill) auctions through which govt was set to borrow Rs 23,000 crore.Due to a tight fund-flow situation in the system, on the back of a high govt balance, GST-related outflows and funds getting blocked primarily…
The DCC determines where social-security contributions are paid. (Image for representative purpose only) Employees movement from one country to another for work usually brings questions around the minimum salary, immigration and taxes. Such moves can also trigger less obvious social security obligations in both countries, potentially increasing the cost of an international assignment. This was…
Barclays to slash 5,000 jobs Barclays plans to eliminate around 5,000 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, by the end of this year as the British lender streamlines its operations and increases its investment in technology, including artificial intelligence (AI).The bank has already closed 1,000 positions and expects to cut another 4,000. Around 60%…
Meta’s Q3 net income jumps 264% to $9.86 billion Meta Platforms’ net income more than tripled in the third quarter of 2026, rising 264 per cent year-on-year to $9.86 billion, as higher advertising revenue boosted its financial performance. However, a $9.89 billion legal charge pushed operating income down 37 per cent despite a 26 per…
