budget 2024 expectations: Earnings, Budget to drive market; risk-reward favours largecaps & midcaps vis-a-vis smallcaps: Shibani Sircar Kurian

budget 2024 expectations: Earnings, Budget to drive market; risk-reward favours largecaps & midcaps vis-a-vis smallcaps: Shibani Sircar Kurian

Shibani Sircar Kurian, Senior EVP, Sr. Fund Manager & Head -Equity Research, Kotak Mahindra AMC, says from a market perspective, the earnings trajectory for FY25 and FY26 are still fairly intact, and mid-teens earnings growth in the context of almost 24% earnings growth for Nifty last year which is FY24 is a very good outcome. … Read more

PepsiCo (PEP) earnings Q2 2024 earnings

PepsiCo (PEP) earnings Q2 2024 earnings

Pepsi bottles with new and previous logos are seen at the grocery store in Las Vegas, United States on November 17, 2023. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images PepsiCo reported mixed quarterly results Thursday, hurt by declining demand in North America for its drinks and snacks. The company also narrowed its revenue outlook for the … Read more

Delta Air Lines (DAL) earnings Q2 2024

Delta Air Lines (DAL) earnings Q2 2024

Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Delta Air Lines on Thursday forecast record revenue for the third quarter thanks to booming summer travel demand, but its earnings forecast fell short of analysts’ estimates. Shares of Delta fell about 7% in premarket trading. Here’s how the company performed in the three months ended June 30, compared with … Read more

Company to cut 10% of workforce

Company to cut 10% of workforce

Daniel Dines, Co-founder & CEO at UiPath addresses the audience during the third day of the Web Summit 2021 at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon.  Bruno de Carvalho | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UiPath, a developer of automation software, is cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 420 jobs, as part of … Read more

BP expects up to $2 billion impairment in 2Q on weak refining margins

BP expects up to  billion impairment in 2Q on weak refining margins

BP in 2020 set out its ambition to become a net zero company “by 2050 or sooner.” Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images BP shares dropped on Tuesday after the firm flagged it expects to post an impairment of up to $2 billion in the second quarter and warned of lower refining … Read more

Corning stock up 12% as AI boom drives stronger-than-expected demand

Corning stock up 12% as AI boom drives stronger-than-expected demand

Corning shares are up more than 12% Monday after the company raised its second-quarter guidance, setting it on track for its best trading day since March 2020. The company, known for developing the Gorilla Glass used for Apple iPhones and other phones, credits the outperformance to demand for its optical connectivity products that power networks … Read more

Airline profits lag even as travel demand breaks records

Airline profits lag even as travel demand breaks records

Passengers pass through O’Hare airport in Chicago, July 3, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Record summer air travel demand isn’t translating to record U.S. airline profits. Carriers will have to answer for that disconnect when they report quarterly results this month. Some airlines have forecast record demand, and in some cases, revenue. But higher … Read more

Wells Fargo (WFC) earnings; CPI, PPI inflation data key in week ahead

Wells Fargo (WFC) earnings; CPI, PPI inflation data key in week ahead

Wall Street finished higher for the holiday-shortened trading week, with tech stocks leading the way. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained under 1% for the week. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq , which both closed at record highs Friday — rising nearly 2% and 3.5%, respectively, for the week. The first week of … Read more

Energy giant Shell to take up to a $2 billion impairment hit on Rotterdam, Singapore plants

Energy giant Shell to take up to a  billion impairment hit on Rotterdam, Singapore plants

The Shell logo is displayed outside a petrol station in Radstock on February 17, 2024 in Somerset, England. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images Energy giant Shell on Friday said it expects to record a post-tax impairment hit of up to $2 billion mainly linked to its Singapore and Rotterdam plants, while … Read more

stock market news: Valuations are up… will profits keep pace?

stock market news: Valuations are up… will profits keep pace?

The sensex hit 80,000 intraday on Wednesday, while Nifty is well over 24,000 points. Both flagship indices have returned nearly 25% over the last one year, creating wealth for investors and making India one of the hottest markets in the world. Keeping that on one side, the market is currently trading at 24.7x trailing earnings … Read more