Thursday, August 13
Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter the US president sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump says in the letter obtained by Bloomberg. “Although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.” “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” the US president added.The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t decided by the Norwegian government but is awarded by an independent committee. “Regarding the Nobel Peace Prize, I have several times clearly explained
Shares of leading NBFC IFCI jumped as much as 4.6% to Rs 63.48 in Monday’s trade, taking gains to nearly 30% over the past five sessions. The surge has been fuelled by renewed optimism around the proposed National Stock Exchange (NSE) IPO, given IFCI’s indirect stake in the exchange.IFCI holds a 52% stake in Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL), which owns 4.4% of NSE as of the December quarter. With NSE shares quoted around Rs 2,100 in the unlisted market, SHCIL’s stake is valued at close to Rs 23,000 crore. Through its holding in SHCIL, IFCI enjoys indirect exposure to NSE, making its stock highly responsive to IPO-related developments.NSE IPO Expected Soon: Sebi chairperson Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the regulator could greenlight the much-awaited NSE IPO as soon as this month,
Apple Inc. retook the top spot in China after iPhone shipments jumped 28% during the holiday quarter despite a worsening shortage of vital memory chips, according to Counterpoint Research.The iPhone 17 generation of devices drew consumers, with Apple’s handsets accounting for one in every five shipments in the December quarter, the research firm estimated. That growth came at the expense of Huawei Technologies Co. and Xiaomi Corp., both of which experienced double-digit percentage declines. Overall, shipments in the world’s largest smartphone arena fell 1.6%.From Micron Technology Inc. to Xiaomi, a growing number of companies are warning about the uncertain impact from a growing deficit of the semiconductors used to store data on devices. That shortage, which arose after memory chip ma
