Walmart hits $1 trillion market cap, days after new CEO made it clear that he is willing to change everything except …

Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on…

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Trade softly or you trade on his toes

The TOI correspondent from Washington: The apocryphal story goes that when a Bill Clinton envoy asked an Indian minister in early 1998 if New Delhi would conduct nuclear tests, he got the famous Indian headshake – the ambiguous 8-shaped nod that could mean yes or no or maybe. He took it as a no when…

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US-Iran tensions: Tehran signals readiness for talks amid Donald Trump’s pressure; Pezeshkian calls for ‘fair, equitable negotiations’

File photo: US President Donald Trump (left) and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (Picture credit: AP, ANI) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday confirmed that he has ordered the start of talks with the United States, provided negotiations take place in an environment “free from threats and unreasonable expectations,” marking Tehran’s clearest signal yet of willingness…

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