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Banks parked just Rs 79,655 crore in the central bank’s 29-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction, less than half the Rs 2 lakh crore absorption planned in the offer. Draining liquidity is considered crucial for quicker and effective transmission of increases in policy rat

Consumer packaged goods makers such as PepsiCo, General Mills, McCormick and Conagra Brands are navigating a tricky environment where surging input costs are straining margins, while cautious spending amid rising gas prices is hurting demand. "Additional structural cost reduction

Calling a bottom in the nonstop U.S. Treasury bond sell-off might seem crazy, but a handful of options traders look increasingly willing to do it. Trading in the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) Wednesday was very call-heavy on volume that was 50% above the 30-day average

China lets the market play a decisive role in exchange rate formation, the People's Bank of China said in a statement, adding that it does not preset exchange rate target levels or intervene in long-term exchange rate trends. China will report additional foreign exchange-related

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

"Whatever the stance of fiscal policy is, it must be credible and directed at stability, and to be seen to be such by markets," Bailey said in a speech at a conference in Istanbul organised by Turkey's central bank on Thursday. Realistic commitments to rein in debt would help cur

The News The co-CEOs of Blue Owl say the stock market misunderstands them — but they aren’t leaving it. “We went public for a reason and that reason stands,” Marc Lipschultz said on the latest episode of Compound Interest, where he was a guest alongside Doug Ostrover in a rare jo

Three sisters who drowned in sea off Brighton took own lives, inquest finds - Published Three sisters who drowned in the sea off Brighton took their own lives, a coroner has ruled. Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, had been living "very secluded li

There’s a mini-scandal brewing in Dubai’s elite food scene. The latest Michelin Guide awarded stars or distinctions to 11 restaurants that have temporarily or permanently closed because of the war. Food writer Samantha Wood questioned why shuttered restaurants made the cut. Miche

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute, a state-run research body, released AI models trained on the Emirati Arabic dialect, improving translation, transcription, and voice-enabled services. The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Ara

DP World will invest $90 million over two years to expand its terminal at Angola’s Port of Luanda, more than doubling capacity as the Dubai-based firm deepens its bet on African trade. The expansion will lengthen the quay and add 15 cranes, allowing the terminal to handle two lar

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Xsight Labs has an interesting announcement today. The new Xsight Labs E1L DPU is designed to be a lower-power DPU, bringing 8-22 Arm Neoverse N2 cores into a power envelope that is low enough to put into a network switch or other low-power footprints. Xsight Labs E1L DPU for Low

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV users will soon be able to purchase

Kioxia has introduced its first E1.L form factor SSD, built with BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash memory. We did a piece a few days ago showing BiCS under a microscope. Kioxia is targeting read-intensive hyperscale workloads in high-density 1U scale-out servers with the LD4 Seri

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. —The costs of implementing AI across enterprises has surprised some executives in recent months — but it isn’t stopping ThredUp from becoming an AI-first organization. “I was both surprised and didn't care at all,” ThredUp co-founder and CEO James Reinhar

However, the central bank's second VRRR auction, with a one-day maturity, received a good response, reflecting banks' reluctance to park money with the RBI for a longer tenure. The central bank received bids worth Rs 79,655 crore for the 29-day VRRR auction against a notified amo

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. Catch David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, co-CEOs of the newly formed Skydance, on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this morning. Watch live on CNBC or CNBC+. Stock futures are lower b

The Indian stock market benchmark Nifty 50 is down 15% year-to-date, and while it is impossible to predict with certainty, the index appears increasingly likely to end the calendar year in the red. A combination of headwinds - from higher oil prices due to the US-Iran conflict, e

RITES vs RVNL: Railway Public Sector Undertakings (PSU), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and RITES Limited, are likely to see double digit revenue growth in the second quarter of financial year 2026-27 (FY-27), according to a PL Capital report. . However, the brokerage sees sharp

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

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AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

On Thursday, the benchmark Sensex fell 1,045 points to close at 71,593. Amid the market decline, seven stocks from the BSE Sensex Index touched fresh 52-week lows, hitting their lowest price levels in the past year. A 52-week low refers to the lowest price at which a stock has tr

The Scene As Western governments slash foreign aid, many organizations are seeking Gulf philanthropy to fill the gaps. While wealthy individuals and governments in the region are ready to take on a larger role, a younger generation of donors isn’t content with plowing money into

“We’re pulling a trigger on Russian roulette with a planet. And every shot that doesn’t kill us will make us stronger, potentially, and wealthier and better off. But when do you stop pulling the trigger?” – Jaan Tallinn Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, and

Watch: Why was the sign at the British consulate in East Jerusalem removed? Israel said in September it would shut the British consulate, in retaliation for UK sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank which are illegal under international law. The UK government

Design-led lifestyle-tech brand DailyObjects has raised Rs 332 crore (nearly $35 million) in a Series C funding round led by Xponentia Capital Partners, Anicut Capital and Axiom Asia Private Capital. The round, which comprised primary and secondary transactions, valued the compan

CodeRabbit completed 1,049,817 reviews on open-source repositories in September 2026, a monthly record and 14.4% more than in August. On September 30 alone, 47,585 open-source reviews ran through the platform. We’re grateful to the maintainers and contributors who use CodeRabbit

Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent Thomas Kurian CEO, Google Cloud Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: - Gemini, a single, universal agent for work tha

Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini Enterprise Sandeep Khanna Managing Director, Google Cloud U.K. & Ireland In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning governmen