Fidelity follows rivals in cutting online trading commissions to zero
FILE PHOTO: A sign marks a Fidelity Investments office in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo(Reuters) - Fidelity Investments on Thursday eliminated commissions on online trades of U.S. stocks,…
Amid slowdown, insurance biz record robust growth; how traffic fines, motor insurance may have…
Both life and non-life insurance segments saw robust growth in terms of premiums collected at least till the six-month period ended September 30 of FY20.Even as the economy undergoes a slowdown, the insurance sector posted a substantial…
HDFC cuts retail prime lending rate by 10 bps
Mortgage major Housing Development Finance Corporation on Monday reduced its retail prime lending rate (RPLR) on housing loans by 10 basis points, making loans cheaper for all its existing customers.The RPLR, on which its adjustable rate…
Stock corner: Maintain ‘buy’ on HUL with target price of Rs 2,250
With the push-for-premium sustaining, we expect better earnings growth.Hindustan Unilever’s (HUL) Q2FY20 revenue growth of 6.7% YoY came in line, while EBITDA and PAT spurt of 21.0% and 21.5% YoY, respectively, surpassed our estimates.…
Elliott ranks as busiest activist hedge fund in third quarter, again
BOSTON (Reuters) - Elliott Management, Paul Singer’s $35 billion hedge fund, kept up its blistering pace of pushing for corporate changes during the third quarter, outspending all rivals with campaigns at AT&T and Marathon Petroleum…
Cloud seeding: Oracle opens data centres for next-gen cloud in India
More than 15,000 customers in India are using Oracle to manage their mission-critical workloads.At Oracle Open World in San Francisco last month, the company chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, made one bold announcement (among several…
RBI issues guidelines on ‘on tap’ authorisation on payment systems
Earlier in January this year, the Reserve Bank of India had released a policy paper on authorisation of new retail payment systems.The RBIon Tuesday issued guidelines on ‘on tap’ authorisation of payment systems, including minimum…
Debt mutual funds continue to pare exposure to NBFCs
MFs invested `95,099 crore towards these long-term instruments in September, lower by nearly 6% over the previous year.Exposure of debt mutual funds towards non-banking financial companies in September stood at `1.8 lakh crore, down by…