$65 Billion Of Value Wiped Off India’s Adani Group With Escalating Battle With US Short-Seller

The majority of Adani Group shares plunged on Monday as the Indian conglomerate’s response to criticism from a U.S. short-seller fell flat with investors, escalating a market meltdown that has already cost the company’s stock $65 billion in losses. The Indian business, led by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, has been at odds with Hindenburg…

Ryanair And EasyJet Willing To Hire Staff Of Flybe Airline

The employees who have lost their jobs as a result of the demise of regional airline Flybe should apply for positions with EasyJet and Ryanair, according to the two budget airlines. Flybe went into administration on Saturday, laying off 277 people. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) said it received phone calls from concerned Flybe…

Global Miner Rio Tinto Is ‘Sorry’ Over Radioactive Capsule That Went Missing In Australia

Global mining company Rio Tinto says it is collaborating with authorities to locate a radioactive capsule that had gone missing in Western Australia earlier this month. “We recognise this is clearly very concerning and are sorry for the alarm it has caused,” the firm told the BBC. The casing contains a trace amount of radioactive Caesium-137,…

India’s Adani Group Alleges Fraud Claim In Hindenburg Report Was A ‘Calculated Attack On India’

Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest man’s company has published a detailed rebuttal to allegations of wrongdoing made by short seller Hindenburg Research. Adani Group describes the report as a “calculated attack on India” in a 400-page document. Later that day, Hindenburg stated that “Adani failed to specifically answer 62 of our 88 questions” in the report. Last week,…

Rout At the Stock Market of India’s Adani Group Exceeds $51 Billion As Shares Fall Below Daily Limits

The fallout from a damning report by US short-seller Hindenburg Research speeded up the selloff in Gautam Adani’s business empire on Friday, wiping out more than $51 billion in market value in two sessions as the wealthiest man of Asia struggles to control the blowback. The drubbing is stacking up strain on the Indian tycoon, eroding his net…

With Dwindling Of The Travel Boom, Visa, MasterCard Are Betting On Reopening Of China 

According to Wall Street analysts, Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc will rely on China reopening to boost travel spending as the pace of growth in other parts of the world slows from a post-pandemic boom. Executives from payment companies said on Thursday that there is still room for travel recovery in China, which reopened its…

As AMD Gains Ground, Struggling Intel Declares It Will Regain Balance

Intel Corp has suffered a major setback at a time when smaller rival AMD and others are gaining ground. It claims that it will regain its equilibrium this year. On Thursday, the company surprised the market by forecasting revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates by about $3 billion. The global economy’s weakness only…

Chinese Business Performance Of Luxury Brand LVMH Hits Its Margins 

A record-breaking run in LVMH shares was briefly halted on Friday after the company’s fourth-quarter sales update caused some disappointment over the impact of China disruption on its margins. The company, which owns dozens of high-end labels such as Louis Vuitton and Dior, reported late Thursday that its fourth-quarter sales increased 9% as shoppers in…

Musk Claims That His SpaceX Stock May Have Also Contributed To Taking Tesla Private

Elon Musk told jurors on Monday that he was confident he had secured financial backing from Saudi investors in 2018 to take Tesla Inc private, and that he could even have used his stake in rocket company SpaceX to fund a buyout. During a five-hour trial in federal court in San Francisco, the billionaire, who…

Indian Minister Claims Apple Contemplating Making 25% Of Its iPhones In The Country

The commerce minister of India has claimed that the iPhone maker Apple Inc. is planning to manufacture a quarter of all its iPhones in India. Apple is “another success story” for India, said Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and industry, while highlighting the success of the fifth-largest economy of the world. “They’re [Apple] already…