HDFC reported a 22 percent rise in its standalone profit after tax to Rs 3,669 crore for the first quarter against the Rs 3,001 crore posted during the same period last year. Its individual loans on an assets under management (AUM) basis saw the highest growth in the last eight years. Here's what is driving the exceptional growth in the loan book:

Nazara Technologies: The stock of the mobile gaming company was trading 18.99 percent higher at Rs 630 per share on BSE at the time of writing.

Rishi Sunak has a smart product going for him. But in common with marketing weaknesses that are far from unusual, the messaging is not quite matched to the target audience.

Yes Bank chief executive officer (CEO) Prashant Kumar speak to CNBC-TV18 on Monday said that Advent and Carlyle investments can be seen as ‘confidence capital' and will fuel growth at the bank to compete with its private peers.

06:45 AM EDT, 09/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The most-talked-about stocks in the Reddit subforum Wallstreetbets were mixed hours before Wednesday's opening bell. Opendoor Technologies ( OPEN ) was 0.5% higher premarket, swinging from a 6.1% fall at Tuesday's close. Alphabet (GOOG) was up 0.4% pre-bell, following a 0.1% decline in the previous session. Oracle (ORCL) advanced by 0.3% in pre-bell...

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * Futures: Dow up 0.02%, S&P 500 down 0.08%, Nasdaq down 0.10% * Workday rises after Elliott builds a more than $2 bln stake * Report says Chinese tech firms to stop buying Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips (Updates prices)...

Sept 17 (Reuters) - The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan dropped last week to its lowest in a year, sending homeowners racing to lock in cheaper borrowing costs as slowing jobs growth and expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut drive down yields on benchmark Treasuries. The Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday said the contract rate...

01:46 PM EDT, 09/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US benchmark equity indexes were mixed intraday ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy decision. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.6% at 22,191.2 after midday Wednesday, while the S&P 500 fell 0.2% to 6,592.4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% to 45,978.1. Among sectors, technology saw the biggest drop, while consumer...

In the preceding three months, 17 analysts have released ratings for Confluent , presenting a wide array of perspectives from bullish to bearish. The following table summarizes their recent ratings, shedding light on the changing sentiments within the past 30 days and comparing them to the preceding months. Bullish Somewhat Bullish Indifferent Somewhat Bearish Bearish Total Ratings 7 5 5...

(Reuters) - The U.S. government's antitrust lawsuit against Apple ( AAPL ) draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft's ( MSFT ) stranglehold on desktop software, but that may prove to be an imperfect blueprint for addressing smartphone competition. The market for the iPhone today looks very different from the near-monopoly enjoyed by Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Windows...

AMSTERDAM, March 22 (Reuters) - The Netherlands' prime minister will travel to China next week for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on economic ties, the Dutch government said on Friday, a meeting that is likely to be strained over computer chip export policy matters. The Dutch government this year began denying licenses for ASML, the biggest supplier of...

Analysts' ratings for Clear Secure ( YOU ) over the last quarter vary from bullish to bearish, as provided by 7 analysts. The table below provides a concise overview of recent ratings by analysts, offering insights into the changing sentiments over the past 30 days and drawing comparisons with the preceding months for a holistic perspective. Bullish Somewhat Bullish Indifferent...

On Tuesday, the Gehlot government invited bids for both projects to build the dams within the next four years. The chief minister had announced both projects in last year’s budget.

The new bill exempts registered AYUSH practitioners and people accessing codified traditional knowledge, from sharing benefits with local communities or giving prior intimation to state biodiversity boards before accessing biological resources.

Accusing Kejriwal of being busy with election campaigning in poll-bound states and waking up to the situation late, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, said that the Centre had held a meeting with Chief Secretaries and senior officials from four North Indian states on 20th October to discuss measures to reduce air pollution, which he claims weren't adopted by the AAP-led governments.

The probe pertains to Dapoli resort, which is allegedly illegal. The former minister and Shiv Sena (Uddhav) leader, Anil Parab, allegedly wangled a permit to use land meant for agricultural use. The ED had started the investigation under the the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after a complaint from the Environment Ministry.

Tech Mahindra will work with YIT, the largest Finnish and a significant North European development and construction company, to modernise their enterprise IT architecture and system landscape to drive increased efficiencies across its value chain.

The talks for starting a second Pegatron facility on lease are ongoing and it will be located inside Mahindra World City near Chennai, just around where the company inaugurated the first plant in September 2022.

Meta layoffs: Facebook and Instagram parent has begun letting go of employees, especially in tech roles, on April 19, a company spokesperson has confirmed to CNBC International.

The company said a third-party software provider called FORTRA GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) was the victim of an attack by the CLOP ransomware group.

TL;DR Cardano’s ADA shows bullish momentum, with analysts predicting a potential rally to $1 in the coming weeks and even $10 by the end of 2025, though reaching this price would require a market cap of over $350 billion. Grayscale’s potential approval for a spot ADA ETF in the US could be a major catalyst, offering regulated exposure and boosting...

Monday is a holiday in the US for Presidents’ Day, so traditional markets are closed. Crypto markets never close, but they are already showing signs of weakness as another week begins. There are several Federal Reserve speeches to look out for this week in addition to manufacturing and services purchasing manager’s indexes. “Inflation is officially at its highest in at...

“I see more and more evidence of why it will [go to $1 million], and less and less of why it won’t,” opined the chief executive of crypto asset manager Bitwise, Hunter Horsley, on Feb. 17. He posed the question on X of why BTC isn’t going to be widely adopted and hit seven figures before providing a list of...

The last 24 hours have not been pleasant for the crypto bulls since most of the leading digital assets have headed south. Bitcoin (BTC), for instance, retreated to roughly $96,000. The situation with most of the well-known altcoins, including Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Dogecoin (DOGE), and others, is no better. The meme coin sector is also deep in the red,...