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Starbucks on Thursday announced it will close about 1% of its North American cafes as part of its turnaround. Under CEO Brian Niccol, Starbucks has staged a revamp of its U.S. business that has focused on improving the customer experience, including in-person interactions at its

The Nifty 50 settled at 23,063.10, down 383.70 points, or 1.64%, while the Sensex fell 1,247.71 points, or 1.67%, to close at 73,580.54. The sell-off extended to the broader market, with the NSE Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices declining 2.25% and 1.53%, respective

The Indian stock market suffered heavy losses in Thursday’s trade, September 24, with the headline indices closing more than 1.5% lower, erasing their recent gains and falling below key psychological levels. Investor sentiment was hit by surging global bond yields and volatility

Hi, it’s Amanda Gerut, pinch hitting for Allie. In late 2014, Ellen Polcari was nannying for a VC’s two young children. A decade later, she had branded herself the firm’s “controller,” and, according to the SEC, the person who allegedly moved about $1.28 million of investor money

Traders said that the Reserve Bank of India was seen in the market selling dollars through government-owned banks to prevent further weakening of the rupee beyond the 96 level. Opening the day 9 paise weaker at 95.83 as against the previous close of 95.74, the local currency cont

Micron discontinues 2GB GDDR7 chips for gaming GPUs as it pivots toward higher-density memory for AI — chipmaker reportedly pivots to high-margin 3GB silicon for AI GPUs Samsung and SK Hynix already lead the 2GB GDDR7 market Micron is reportedly pulling the plug on its 2 GB (16Gb

Crashed RAF jet steered to 'avoid built-up areas' before pilots ejected - Published An RAF jet was steered to "avoid built-up areas" before two pilots ejected out of the aircraft, an air force commander has said. Gp Capt Gez Currie, Station Commander, said: "The aircraft would ha

Business News›Markets›US Stocks›Wall St Guide›Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: S&P 500 ends nearly flat as investors assess US-Iran conflict LIVE BLOG Dow Jones Today Live Updates: AI stocks lose steam as investors turn to Trump-Xi summit. Synopsis The S&P 500

The CEO of Palo Alto Networks has entered the debate around the threat AI poses to humanity, telling CNBC that it's "unrealistic" to slow down the technology as different companies will do different things. "I think not everybody is going to pace themselves," Nikesh Arora told CN

Jain who as deputy governor is responsible for departments of external investments, foreign exchange and risk management among others said in response to a question by State Bank of India (SBI) managing director Ravi Ranjan at the SBI Banking and Economics Conclave. Read more: In

Carroll reveals he was sexually assaulted in 2021 - Published Former England striker Andy Carroll has revealed he was sexually assaulted by a man in 2021. The 37-year-old, who was automatically granted anonymity as a victim of sexual assault, has made the details public in an aut

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 — lithography giant calls on EU to help create demand Subsidies for fabs do not help. As the world's only supplier of EUV lithography systems, ASML is Europe's largest company by market capitalization, currently valued at a

In a regulatory filing, Max Estates Ltd informed that it will enter into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for a 9.76-acre land parcel in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. The upcoming project will have a super built-up development potential of 1.5 million sq. ft. and an estimated revenu

The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield climbed 6 basis points to end at 7.1067%, its highest level since May 21, after closing at 7.0447% on Wednesday. Bond yields move inversely to prices. US Treasury yields surged to their highest levels since 2007 on Wednesday, after a robust pur

Dividend alert: Shares of PTC India ended marginally lower on Thursday ahead of its upcoming dividend record date. The power trading solutions provider is scheduled to pay 55% dividend for the financial year 2025-26.The company has announced a total of ₹26 dividend over the last

The Emirates’ largest expat group will soon pay bills the way they did back home. PhonePe, India’s biggest payments app, won approval from the UAE Central Bank to launch in the country, the Walmart-backed company’s first move abroad. It will offer payments, remittances, and money

The UAE has launched a new freight rail service connecting Fujairah, its main maritime gateway outside the Strait of Hormuz, with Abu Dhabi’s industrial city, adding another route for goods to bypass the disrupted waterway. Three times a week, Etihad Rail will move containers abo

Microsoft is accelerating investment in the Gulf, planning to spend at least $10 billion by 2030 to shore up the region’s digital resilience. While a drop in the bucket compared with global AI spending, the move to expand data centers and lay more subsea and overland cables for b

Iran has presented the US with a roadmap to end the war that echoes the two countries’ June agreement — a 60-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and groundwork for further talks — The National reported. The initiative follows US-Iran talks that President Donald

Lowe's is launching a drone delivery service in partnership with DoorDash and Alphabet's Wing, CNBC has learned exclusively. The company said the new drone delivery service — a first in the home improvement retail space — will give customers access to over 100 products in a deliv

Beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa has partnered with BOLD (Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development), the corporate venture capital fund of global beauty giant L’Oréal, to jointly invest in emerging Indian beauty and personal care brands. The collaboration will focus on hig

The appointment of a new Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairperson marked a turning point in National Stock Exchange of India Ltd's (NSE's) decade-long path to an initial public offering, chief executive Ashishkumar Chauhan told Mint after the company's stock debu

Lucky 3D artist scores Jensen Huang-signed RTX 5090 from used marketplace that's worth up to $15,000 — unused Asus ROG Astra White OC sent to Bonhams with $15,000 estimate A lucky surprise. A 3D artist looking to purchase an RTX 5090 for their work claimed that they scored an uno

Financial stock to buy: Shares of Sammaan Capital Limited ended lower on Thursday, reversing its gains made in the previous trading session. The housing finance company stock has declined 6% over the past two weeks. However, the worst may be over as the company has moved forward

China swiped classified F-35 stealth fighter parts that were diverted through Hong Kong — rerouted UPS cargo triggers military investigation, stealth coating recipe feared compromised despite Pentagon downplaying mishap F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door missing, but the ra

Amazon’s quick commerce and grocery retail arm, Amazon Retail, which operates Amazon Now and Amazon Fresh, saw strong growth in revenue during FY26. However, the company’s losses widened sharply as expenses grew much faster than its business. Amazon Retail’s revenue from operatio

US stock market LIVE updates: The US stock futures were trading deep in the red in Thursday’s session, indicating another weak start to Wall Street, as investors remained concerned about rising bond yields and sharp swings in crude oil prices. The tech-heavy Nasdaq futures were d

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

New wireless Wi-Fi 7 external GPU enclosure comes with a built-in 4TB SSD for local AI — $1,999 box leverages WiFi 7 to present a remote card as local There's onboard storage for keeping model weights, too. External GPUs (eGPU) have been tried time and again, and while they have

Stock market today: The domestic benchmark indices witnessed their sharpest fall in nearly 10 weeks on Thursday, as a surge in crude oil prices heightened inflation concerns and dampened investor sentiment. Financial stocks were among the biggest drags amid worries over proposed

The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered. Once quantum computing becomes practical (estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years), the foundational security it provides will crumble. New research has revealed a novel method that uses cl

AI/ML BYOC: Pinecone vector database managed service expands to AWS, Azure & GCP Vector database-as-a-Service supplier Pinecone has released its proprietary cloud lock by adding support for the AWS, Azure and Google clouds, and is aiming to head fully into the on-prem world. A ve

The quote by American financial writer Fred Schwed Jr. captures a familiar weakness in human behaviour: when a decision goes wrong, people often find it easier to blame someone else than to acknowledge that they may have made a poor choice. This tendency becomes particularly visi

Investment in global gaming-related startups is picking up some in 2026, after hitting a longtime low last year. So far this year, companies in the space have raised around $2 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding. That’s already ahead of the 2025 full-year total, driven

This spring, Apple made it official: The Mac Pro is dead. When Apple was using Intel processors and AMD GPUs, the idea of an expandable and upgradeable tower made sense. But Apple Silicon chips bring the CPU, GPU, and memory interface all under one roof in a way that makes that s

China’s ultimate gaming GPU hits a performance wall — LX 7G100 barely crawls past AMD’s nine-year-old RX 580; hyped as an RTX 4060 rival, China's LX 7G100 trails RTX 2060 by 35% Despite strong launch sales, the Lisuan Tech LX 7G100 was clearly more of a domestic win for China tha

Rebel forces in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray launched a major offensive against the government, ending a four-year ceasefire that had halted a gruesome conflict. Tensions over who controls the contested region have been growing for months; a previous war led to hundred

European EV sales surged more than 50% year-on-year last month, as buyers turned away from petrol cars because of soaring fuel prices. EVs now make up almost a third of sales on the continent, with even mega luxury brands joining the shift: Bentley announced its first electric ca

A US judge ordered the White House to restore access for three news outlets, an episode that has highlighted a broadening erosion of democratic freedoms in the country. The court’s temporary restraining order allowing CNN, MS Now, and Politico to return marks the latest step in l

US allies in Asia fear their position could be weakened in talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. Analysts say one of Xi’s priorities will be persuading Trump to halt $14 billion in proposed arms sales to Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing

Longtime US allies moved to reduce their dependence on Washington, signaling their anticipation that America’s shifting priorities will outlast President Donald Trump’s time in office. Canada’s prime minister — trying to lead a diffuse band of middle powers navigating the US-Chin

Washington and Beijing extended a trade truce and Chinese leader Xi Jinping talked up cooperation ahead of a high-stakes summit with US President Donald Trump today, boosting hopes relations between the superpowers will remain stable despite simmering tensions. Trump gave Xi a re

Listen to this article in summarized format The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) released a consultation paper titled ‘Recalibrating Economics of Insurance Distribution’, proposing effort-based caps on the commissions insurers pay to distributors, a

Amazon Pay India, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, continued to face profitability challenges in FY26, with its losses widening 33% despite a return to double-digit revenue growth after a decline in FY25. The company also witnessed intensifying competition in