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Wednesday, 22 January 2020

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Focus on investment and exports to revive investment, economic cycles: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

The Times of India 22 Jan 2020

Without investment, demand or consumption can’t be raised. Kick-starting the consumption cycle would depend on the investment cycle getting revived and that is where we have the biggest challenge in the economy today ... We must bring back fixed investment which has sharply declined over the last two years....

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Bank of America to hire 50 bankers for Asia dealmaking team in 2020 -sources

Canada Dot Com 22 Jan 2020

HONG KONG — Bank of America Corp will recruit about 50 bankers for its investment banking team in Asia this year, as it pushes to bolster its dealmaking business and shore up revenues from the unit, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said ... INVESTMENT BANKING FOCUS....

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Bharti Airtel hits record high after DoT approves up to 100% FDI in co

Moneycontrol 22 Jan 2020

The stock has been one of biggest gainers among largecaps in last one year, rising 80 percent ... Shares of Bharti Airtel hit a record high of Rs 524 intraday on January 22 after the Department of Telecom approved raising foreign direct investment in the company to 100 percent from 49 percent allowed earlier....

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SA poultry industry faces being knocked off its perch by Nigeria

Independent online (SA) 22 Jan 2020

... hub in Africa and the biggest market for eggs. A new report by Rabobank has said that while South Africa would remain the biggest producer on the continent, Zambia, Ethiopia and Rwanda tipped as the next growth frontiers for investment and production of poultry products in Africa....

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Workers’ R60m ‘lost’ in banks scam

Mail Guardian South Africa 22 Jan 2020

... — the biggest share of the retirement fund’s investments being handled by asset managers ... “This is the company that has the biggest slice of investments out of all our asset managers, so we need to be careful about what they do because the risk is so big,” the one trustee added....

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PM Imran meets Ivanka Trump on WEF 2020 sidelines

The News International 22 Jan 2020

Earlier, he spoke at the conference and said his government's biggest challenge was to improve state institutions so that it brings about enhanced governance at every level.  ... "This year now, the focus is on increasing investment and providing employment to more people."....

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Sirius: 'You feel sorry for people who've invested a lot'

BBC News 22 Jan 2020

Sirius says that if shareholders don't accept the offer, there is a good chance the company will go into administration - potentially wiping out their investments. The firm says £4bn Woodsmith project, its biggest, could potentially create 4,000 of jobs in a region with the highest unemployment rate in England and Wales....

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Midcap-focused PMS makes a killing, delivers 29% amid broader market rout

The Times of India 22 Jan 2020

Yet, a newly-launched PMS strategy generated 29 per cent returns in last 14 months investing mainly in midcaps! ... The Rs 70 crore fund had 38.24 per cent of the corpus invested in financials, 19.66 per cent in consumer stocks, 8.24 per cent in consumer technology and 6.65 per cent in diversified businesses....

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No savings at 60? I’d buy these 2 investment trusts to generate passive income

The Motley Fool 22 Jan 2020

Putting savings into investment trusts addresses many of the fundamental questions investors ask themselves, namely how do I own a large number of companies and how do I generate more income year-on-year? I think owning shares in a high-yielding investment trust can help generate a passive income ... Investing in the UK’s biggest and best....

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Why young wealthy people are ditching philanthropy for impact investing

Independent online (SA) 22 Jan 2020

As a result, a younger generation of HNWIs is flocking to impact investment instead ... Here the investment opportunity is based on the potential these companies have to make an impact in the ESG space ... One of the biggest factors is a growing belief that investment is a viable way of bringing about positive change in the world....

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Financial Times: 'Giving cold shoulder to Amazon's Bezos could backfire for India'

The Times of India 22 Jan 2020

Quoting commerce minister Piyush Goyal's remark that Bezos is not doing any "great favour" to India by upping investments, the write-up said, "The lambasting of one of India’s biggest foreign direct investors — amid a severe economic slowdown — left many in the business community aghast, prompting Mr Goyal to claim he had been misunderstood....

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Johnson & Johnson: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

Herald-Standard 22 Jan 2020

The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.86 per share. The world's biggest maker of health care products posted revenue of $20.75 billion in the period, which missed Street forecasts....

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Kotek proposes $40 million to fight homelessness

The Daily Astorian 22 Jan 2020

The Oregon Legislature could be poised to make its most significant investment to relieve the effects of a statewide homelessness crisis as House Speaker Tina Kotek prepares a bill that would allocate $40 million to create new shelters ... But the state’s biggest investment in homelessness has been 2018’s $5 million....