The government’s provisional 2024/2025 budget reflected a dividend of 1.02tn INR. Based on CNBC data, the RBI transferred 874.16bn INR to the government for the 2023 fiscal year. Don’t miss out the latest news, subscribe to LeapRate’s newsletter Analysts speculate that the RBI earned higher interest on securities and this hiked its total income. This,…
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Its new funding efforts were led by Index Ventures and could be taken as a sign that investors remain keen to put large sums of money into the AI space. ICONIQ Growth and Teachers’ Venture Growth, Atomico and WiL all took part in the funding round. DeepL aims to use this cash to carry on…
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According to Bloomberg, an anonymous source familiar with the matter said that the city-state “tapped the market” for $2.5bn SGD and fixed a 3.3% yield for this bond. Based on data compiled by Bloomberg, governments and companies have sold green bonds for an unprecedented value of $260bn since the start of the year. This is…
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The details were revealed during Microsoft’s Build conference, which was held in Seattle on Tuesday. Among the highlights of the presentation was the new version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model created by its Azure AI Studio. This new model promises to accept inputs through video and audio as well as text. Don’t miss out the latest…
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In mid-April 2024, Elon Musk, the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s CEO, indicated that the company would reduce its workforce by 10% in response to global economic pressures and a decrease in demand. At this time, Musk stated this is a “difficult decision” as the company employs more than 140,470 workers. He wrote: There is nothing…
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In its Chapter 11 filing, the Florida-based chain listed assets and liabilities between $1bn and $10bn each. Under this petition, the company can continue operations while devising debt repayment plans. Red Lobster will reportedly allow its lenders to control the organisation. According to Bloomberg, these financiers agreed to pay $100m to help the company through…
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This came after the cruise line operator decided to raise its outlook for full-year profits in the face of what it called “very strong demand”. A presentation of its strategy titled ‘Charting the Course’ was included in this update made at the company’s investor day, and it laid out its plans to increase shareholder returns.…
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The regulator keeps a register of “banned and disqualified” individuals to inform and warn companies and employees. Individuals on this record have been either disqualified from managing a company, auditing self-managed superannuation funds, or fulfilling a financial role in an organisation. Pereira reportedly managed four companies that were liquidated. ASIC listed these as East Coast…
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The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics pointed to retail sales rising by 2.3% in the month of April when compared to the same period last year. An increase of 3.8% had been expected in this area, while March’s number showed 3.1% growth from the previous year. Better news came in the period between 29 April…
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The prime index hovered above the 40,000 brink at a stage on Thursday, 16 May 2024, but ended that day lower. Hopes of rate cuts fuelled bullish investor actions and enabled the Dow Jones’s gallop towards this all-time high. According to CNN, the latest report from the US Bureau of Labour Statistics indicated a decrease…
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