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India Inc’s profits increasingly belong to a tiny clutch of companies

Just 20 firms account for 70% of all corporate earningsAROUND THE world industries have grown more concentrated over the past few decades. In America 20 companies capture roughly a quarter of all corporate profits. If you thought that was sobering news for budding American capitalists, spare a thought for their Indian counterparts. According to a…

Trump says Oracle could handle TikTok: ‘Great company’

President Trump on Tuesday said Oracle could take on TikTok after he issued an executive order that would ban the video app if its U.S. operations remain under Chinese control.With Microsoft as a leading contender to acquire the app, The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Oracle is "seriously considering" purchasing the app's operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.TIKTOK…

Here’s what Elizabeth Warren said during her Democratic convention speech

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s speech Wednesday during the virtually held Democratic National Convention touched on some themes that may ring familiar to supporters of her 2020 presidential campaign “I love a good plan, and Joe Biden has some really good plans,” Warren said. “Plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing and create new union jobs…

A pregnant woman with COVID-19 was dying. With one decision, her doctors saved three lives.

On a bright October day last fall, Ebony Brown-Olaseinde and her husband, Segun Olaseinde, found out that their longtime dream had finally been realized: They were going to be parents. After three years spent trying to conceive, they had succeeded through in vitro fertilization – and they soon learned that their twins, a boy and…

Wall Street futures on the rise as hope grows Washington will provide aid to struggling US economy

BEIJING — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday on hopes Washington will provide more aid to the struggling U.S. economy.Benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong, South Korea and Sydney advanced. Tokyo was off 0.1%.Wall Street gained Thursday after President Donald Trump suggested he might be reversing his decision to halt talks on economic aid.…