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An electric charge for public transport: E-bus market to triple by 2023

As cities seek to reduce tailpipe emissions, the move towards electrifying intra-city transport is gathering speed

India set to have 180k km highways, 120k km rail lines by 2025: Report

The country is on course to build more national highways and rail lines during the decade ending 2025 than it has cumulatively done between 1950 and 2015, a report said on Wednesday. The total length of national highways is expected to reach 1.8 lakh kilometres, while that of the railway lines 1.2 lakh kilometres by 2025, Bank of America Securities India said in a report. Between 1950 and 2015, the nation built only 4,000 kilometres of national highways, taking the total length to 77,000 kilometres in 2015. However the highway length is on course to cross 1.8 lakh kilometres by 2025 -- more than double the existing length -- in ten years time. When it comes to the rail network, the nation had only 10,000 kilometres of rail lines in 1950, which rose to 63,000 kilometres in 2015. But it is slated to touch 1.2 lakh kilometres in 2025, the report said. The port capacity which was only 777 MTPA in 1995 rose to 1,911 MTPA in 2015 and is on course to more than double to 3,000 MTPA by 2025

Investors bearish but no longer 'apocalyptically', says BofA poll

But fears of economic slowdown continued to rise, with 58% of investors anticipating a global economic recession in the next 12 months, up from 47% last month and the highest since May 2020

Rupee won't go into free-fall even if CAD widens to 3-3.5%: BoA's Mehta

RBI needs to be fourth buyer in the bond market, says senior executive

Investor sentiment in doldrums, growth optimism hits record low: BofA study

Survey shows while inflation is seen falling, mood is stagflationary; recession expectations highest since May 2020; global growth and profits at all-time lows, cash levels highest since 9/11 attacks

Investor pessimism worst since 2008 global financial crisis: BofA survey

Investors slashed their exposure to risk assets to levels not seen even during the global financial crisis in a sign of full capitulation amid a 'dire' economic outlook, says the survey

Bank of America posts drop in quarterly profit as dealmaking slumps

Wall Street investment bankers, who were neck-deep in deals last year, have seen activity slump in the first half of 2022 amid volatility in the capital markets, geopolitical tensions

Strongest dollar in a generation upends global economy, devalues currencies

The greenback is affecting everything from cost of an overseas vacation to profitability of MNCs

India's current account deficit likely to touch $105 bn this fiscal: Report

In the report on Tuesday, Bank of America (BofA) Securities revised upwards its Current Account Deficit (CAD) forecast by 0.4 percentage points for this financial year.

India better placed to avoid stagflation risk, says RBI report

Paints an encouraging picture of economic activity gaining strength, with most GDP constituents exceeding their pre-pandemic levels

Growth optimism sinks to a record low, says Bank of America survey

Global profit expectations also dropped to 2008 levels

Mittals looking to raise $2 bn to buy portion of Singtel stake in Airtel

As per a media report, Mittals are in talks with some major banks like BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan, and Standard Chartered to raise over $2 billion

Warren Buffett to auction off one last private lunch for charity

Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's CEO, held the lunch auction once a year for 20 years before the pandemic began to raise money for the Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless in San Francisco

S&P 500 inches higher as strong BofA results offset tech weakness

Twitter slips despite adopting 'poison pill'; Bank of America boosts S&P 500 after earnings; Didi to meet on US delisting plans, shares plunge

Bank of America beats Q1 profit estimates on strength in consumer lending

The bank reported a 9% rise in consumer banking revenue to $8.8 billion in the quarter ended March

Jan/Feb market sell-off was an just an appetizer: BofA Securities survey

Global growth optimism, according to the survey findings, was at an all-time low, with recession fears surging in the world's investment community.

HP stock jumps nearly 18% after Warren Buffett's company buys over 11%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it now owns nearly 121 million HP shares, giving it control of 11.5% of the company

India Inc raises a record green capital of $19 billion in 2021

India Inc has raised a record USD 19 billion in green capital in 2021, led by Wall Street major Bank of America, which is only a fraction of the USD 1 trillion that global corporations raised in green financing in the year. While corporate India raised USD 19 billion in green capital in 2021, Bank of America participated in USD 15.65 billion. Globally, the Wall Street major was part of a fourth of the USD 1-trillion green funding drive, helping mop up USD 250 billion, the bank said. In the country, it was part of the eight deals/issuers worth USD 15.65 billion, which included loans, M&As, debt capital and equity capital market funding, it added. It can be noted that BofA had in April 2021 set a target of helping mobilise USD 1.5 trillion in sustainable financing by 2030 and also announced its exit from funding carbon-based companies. Comparative numbers are not available as the lender has not been categorising fund-raise differently. The biggest domestic issuer was the USD ...

With Citi deal, life has come full circle for Axis Bank's Amitabh Chaudhry

In all likelihood, he would have worn a broad grin; and asked them to get behind their desks. A confirmed workaholic, Axis Bank's boss is not known to suffer fools gladly

Ukraine war lifts default risk for world's fragile economies

Worries over whether Russia would deliver on its interest payments this month are leading investors to consider who else is at risk of failing to pay