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ITC's Q3FY22 standalone net profit up over 12%
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The net profit rose to Rs 4,156.20 crore from Rs 3,687.88 crore reported for the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The company's standalone gross revenue rose by 31.3 per cent to Rs 16,633.86 crore from Rs 12,673.31 crore on a YoY basis. According to the Q3FY22 earnings result, the company delivered a strong performance across all operating segments during the quarter.
Biden's three Fed nominees vow to tackle inflation while sustaining recovery
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"I want to recognize the toll inflation exacts on working people who are concerned about how far their paychecks will go for essentials like food, housing, and transportation," Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed governor and Biden's nominee as the Fed's vice chair for supervision, said at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.
Markets hammer Facebook stock 25%, valuation tanks $230 bn; Zuck slips behind Ambani, Adani
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Shares opened Thursday down 25 per cent. This is a crash of about $230 billion from the social media networking giant's market capitalisation. Consequent to the bloodbath, Zuckerberg personally lost 23.34 percent of his net worth. At $87.7 billion, he slipped to No 12 in the Forbes real-time billionaires index - marginally behind India's Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani.
Adani Transmission reports cash profit of Rs 2,276 cr in 9MFY22
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The company posted a double-digit growth of 15.8 per cent in consolidated revenue in 9MFY22 and 14.5 per cent in Q3FY22. 9MFY22 EBITDA of Rs 4,111 cr grew 5.7 per cent yoy and Q3FY22 EBITDA of Rs 1,325 cr is up 5.8 per cent yoy on account of higher revenue in both transmission and distribution segments.
Nearly 30% hike sees SCR get highest ever allocation in budget 2022-23
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Stating that it is the highest ever allocation to SCR, its General Manager Sanjeev Kishor said Thursday that compared to Rs 7,049 crore for the year 2021-22, the fund allocation has been increased by nearly 30 per cent for the current fiscal. The 'Pink Book', a compendium containing all the details about the infrastructure works, demands for grants and comprehensive details of budgetary allocations for carrying out various works in Railways, was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
After cryptocurrencies, money laundering via NFTs next big worry
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According to a report by Blockchain data platform Chainalysis, they found a small but growing portion of activity on NFT marketplaces that could be attributed to money laundering. "While money laundering in physical art is difficult to quantify, we can make more reliable estimates of NFT-based money laundering thanks to the inherent transparency of the Blockchain," the report said late on Wednesday.
With record $10.7 bn sales, Qualcomm eyes IoT, Metaverse space
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According to Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, the chipset business had its second consecutive quarter of record performance with $8.8 billion in revenue. "We are at the beginning of one of the largest opportunities in our history, with our addressable market expanding by more than seven times to approximately $700 billion in the next decade," Amon said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Equity settles in red, Nifty IT top losers; sugar stocks gain
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Among the sectoral indices, Nifty IT, realty and financial services tanked the most on Thursday, while Nifty auto and consumer durable traded in the green, the NSE data showed. On the specific stocks front, HDFC, ONGC, SBI Life, Grasim Industries, Infosys were the top losers, while Hero Motocorp, Bajaj Auto, Divi's Labs, Maruti Suzuki, and ITC the top runners.
Third Covid wave sequentially eases India's Jan services output: PMI
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The seasonally adjusted India Services Business Activity Index came in at 51.5 (index reading) for January. However, it was lower than 55.5 (index reading) in December. The PMI ranges between 0 and 100, with a reading of above 50 indicating an overall increase compared to the previous month.
Emami founders step down from executive positions
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The Board unanimously decided to appoint R.S. Goenka as Non-Executive Chairman while re-designating R.S. Agarwal as Chairman Emeritus effective 1st April, 2022. Both the Founders will not accept any emoluments from the Company for taking up their new positions. The decision comes in the wake of Board restructuring that was part of the succession planning of the FMCG business of the Group.
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