Father’s guarantee: Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison backstops son’s $78bn Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery | Business

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee more than $40bn in financing for Paramount Skydance’s hostile $78bn bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The move follows open scepticism from WBD’s board over whether the offer was fully funded and capable of closing. By putting his own wealth on the line, Ellison aims to…

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Sensex up for 2nd day on steady, global cues

MUMBAI: Infosys and Bharti Airtel led a 638-point sensex rally on Monday, its second session of rebound after days of slide, as the reversal in rupee’s strength against the dollar enthused Dalal Street investors. The rise in the sensex, however, came even as foreign funds were net sellers, BSE data showed. Over the past few…

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April-October gross FDI flows rise 15% to $58 billion

NEW DELHI: Gross FDI flows into India rose 15.4% to $58.3 billion during April-Oct, while net inflows almost doubled due to lower disinvestment and repatriation. RBI data estimated gross inflows to be 8.8% lower at $6.5 billion in Oct. Recent weeks have seen a spate of announcements, including by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, besides acquisitions…

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‘Low inflation boost for competitiveness’: RBI

MUMBAI: High-frequency indicators in Nov show activity is holding up and demand is robust, even though headline CPI inflation edged up, but stayed below the lower tolerance level.RBI’s state of the economy report, published on Monday, said “benign inflation during the month kept input cost pressures low for firms”, hence “limiting hikes to selling prices…

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FedEx questioned for hiring hundreds of H-1B workers while firing US staff after $2.24 billion federal contract: ‘Our strategy is…’

American company FedEx has come under fire after a multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract coincided with a sharp increase in the company’s hiring of foreign workers, even as it cut hundreds of US jobs across multiple states.In December 2022, the US Transportation Command awarded FedEx a contract worth $2.24 billion for the Next Generation Delivery Service-2…

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