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A Forever 21 store is pictured in London on September 30, 2019. Fashion retailer Forever 21 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States.Alberto Pezzari | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesVeteran fast-fashion company Forever 21 is asking landlords to lower rent as it struggles to keep up with savvier competitors due to declining sales, CNBC reports.The retailer, which has more than 380 stores across the U.S., has asked some landlords to reduce rent by up to 50%, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. The company is facing financial difficulties but has not yet hired advisers or…

Shares of Bajaj Holdings and Investments were trading at Rs 8,212.0, down 0.46 per cent, as of 12.42 pm IST on Friday. The BSE benchmark Sensex fell 397.78 points to 77,081.15. The stock had closed at Rs 8,250.05 in the previous trade. The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 9,355.0 and low of Rs 6,634.6. Total over-the-counter trading till 12:42 pm IST stood at Rs 0.38 crore with turnover at 12:42 pm, according to BSE data. The stock is currently trading at 12.6 times trailing-12-month EPS of Rs 652.98 and 1.7 times price-to-book ratio (PBR), according to exchange data.…

According to Citi, data centers are currently a hot area for real estate companies around the world. “One of the hot themes across the real estate industry globally is the move by industrial and diversified companies into data centers,” Citi said. “The high potential profit margins from data center developments have generated significant interest from real estate companies around the world looking to explore and expand data center locations,” the bank added in a June 17 note. Citi noted that the move to data centers is driven by key themes such as artificial intelligence and nearshoring. Data centers house the…

Starlink Mini promotional image.SpaceX customer email sent on June 19, 2024.SpaceX is rolling out a compact version of its Starlink antenna, which the company is promoting as a mobile option for its satellite internet customers.”Starlink Mini is designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go in a compact, portable piece of kit that easily fits into a backpack,” according to a SpaceX email to customers sent on Wednesday and seen by CNBC.The company is offering a “limited number” of Starlink Mini antennas in its early access release for $599 each — $100 more than the base model “Standard” antennas…

Bank of America cautioned against viewing Nvidia as a victim of a long-term downturn, while cautioning that the current artificial intelligence boom is nothing like the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. “Unlike the ‘dot-com boom’ funded by risky debt, the genAI deployment is a mission-critical race among the most well-funded (cloud) customers,” analyst Vivek Arya wrote to clients on Wednesday. Arya maintained his buy rating and top pick designation for the AI ​​processor maker, which he sees as the biggest winner in the AI ​​boom that has captivated investors since the second half of 2022. His $150 price target implies…

Hello and welcome to a new episode of ET Market Watch, your daily dose of stock movements, trends and more. I’m your host, Neha Vashishth Mahajan. Listen in to today’s highlights.Sensex and NiftyAmidst a highly volatile market, both the Nifty and Sensex closed higher today, led by private sector banks and metal stocks, but a fall in pharma stocks capped the gains.The Sensex index ended at 77,478 and the Nifty index ended at 23,567.Today’s winners and losers:JSW Steel, Tata Steel, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries and Kotak Mahindra Bank were the top gainers on the Sensex index, rising by over 1…

A look at the big movers at noon: Accenture — Shares surged 7.3% after the consulting firm said it had booked more than $900 million in generative artificial intelligence bookings in the third quarter, bringing its total to $2 billion for the current fiscal year. Gilead Sciences — Shares of the biopharmaceutical company surged 7.7% after it said its HIV drug lenacapavir was 100% effective in preventing the disease in women in a Phase 3 trial. Trump Media & Technology Group — Shares fell 13.5% after former President Donald Trump’s company said Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had…

Dive Overview: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s board of directors unanimously approved a resolution Thursday aimed at speeding up the application process. The measure, proposed by Vice Chairman Travis Hill at Thursday’s meeting, was supported by all five board members, though the vice chairman noted that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra’s reasons for supporting it appeared to differ from Hill’s reasons for supporting it. “Certain applications are taking too long to be processed,” Hill said. “And this problem has gotten significantly worse over the last few years.” Between 2013 and 2021, the number of applications that had to…

Panoramic view of the Bank of England building in London. Sopa Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — The Bank of England decided on Thursday to keep interest rates unchanged at its June meeting but said the decision was “delicately balanced” after U.K. inflation hit its 2% target.Market expectations for an August rate cut rose to nearly 50-50 as investors took the message to be subtly dovish.The central bank’s policy interest rate will be kept at 5.25%, the highest level in 16 years since August 2023.Seven members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep rates unchanged, while two voted…

June 20th: Farworld Labs, a Farcaster-native gaming company, closes a $1.75 million pre-seed funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Variant. According to the team, “The funding will enable Farworld Labs to accelerate the rollout of upcoming Q3 releases, including the highly anticipated launch of the Farcade platform in partnership with top studios and developers. Built on a decentralized social media protocol, Farcade is a platform and suite of tools for developers to build crypto-native games that integrate with on-chain social, allowing users to instantly play games within their social media feeds with a single click.”