Take One: Big story of the day
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Q2 earnings possibly skewed, consumer demands pick-up eyes World Cup & festivals
An erratic monsoon and delayed festive season made recovery in rural demand difficult while relief in a few commodity prices may help in margin expansion
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Delhi's iconic Bahrisons is expanding its footprint in the business of books
The family-run business, which turns 70 in October, remains bootstrapped as it expands to more cities and revives its publishing vertical
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Why are FIIs fleeing Indian stocks? Blame it on bonds
As bond yields in the US start to rise, investors switch out of foreign markets, especially emerging markets, to hunt for better opportunities at home, which pressurises equities. Are Indian stock markets prepared to face the FII exodus?
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The Slice-NE SFB merger shakes up banking landscape
The merger could chart the course for other fintechs who seek to become banks. The small finance banking model has worked, and RBI could ill afford to see a weak SFB fail
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CDIL has led the way in semiconductor manufacturing for six decades. What's next?
The family-run company introduced silicon semiconductor technology in the country and recently became the first Indian firm to manufacture silicon carbide components
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After Tesla, India will soon have another global electric car maker. What's VinFast planning?
Going the CKD route, the Vietnamese automaker will bring three models to India to start with, and set up a manufacturing facility in either Gujarat or Tamil Nadu
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Our inflation target is 4 percent and not 2 to 6 percent: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
The Reserve Bank of India held the benchmark repo rate at 6.5 percent and signalled that a rate cut is ruled out until inflation is at or below 4 percent on durable basis
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For most companies the payoff from artificial intelligence is going to be negative: Aswath Damodaran
The dean of valuation on why artificial intelligence, the mood of the moment, will not benefit most of the companies jumping onto the bandwagon, and why money managers must tread with caution
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MediaTek and a bag of chips
From Alexa to Paytm speaker to TataSky to smartphones and TVs of all top brands, there is an invisible chip powering most of the consumer gadgets. Meet MediaTek, the Taiwanese heavyweight which has been silently flexing its muscle in India
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Can Anil Agarwal's troubled Vedanta find a way out of its misery with a demerger?
The $18-billion group has piled up over $15 billion in debt during its expansion, and the demerger might not be a way out in the immediate future. Here's why
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Private capital chasing mid-sized Indian banks
Most opportunities for private equity firms and foreign institutional investors came when the banks needed capital urgently. Now SFBs and mid-sized banks might seek fresh capital avenues for growth