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Global soccer may be finding the limits to private equity’s stampede into sports. A plan by FIFA to sell a minority stake in a new subsidiary — FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE — that would control the business side of the World Cup has faced swift backlash. UEFA, the governing organization of European soccer, and…

Mumbai: In just about six weeks, the Reserve Bank of India has drained banking system liquidity from a peak surplus of ₹11 lakh crore to ₹48,303 crore. How did the central bank withdraw this liquidity and what was the market impact of this? ET explains. Why was there a sudden gush in system liquidity? The…

President Donald Trump has another body of water in mind for a name change: the Atlantic Ocean. But this time, he says, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told him no. “We seriously looked at the Atlantic Ocean, and I called Google Maps, who were really great with the lake,” Trump said at a rally in Pendleton,…

For most of its history, marketing lived on the expense side of the ledger. It was the function that built awareness and made the company look good. Its budget was treated accordingly: nice to have, first to cut, hard to defend in a downturn. But that era is ending. There is growing consensus that marketing’s…

Measured against a trillion-dollar buyback market Nvidia returned US$41.1 billion through dividends and buybacks in fiscal 2026, when operating cash flow exceeded US$102 billion, and it ended that year with US$58.5 billion left under its authorization. S&P 500 companies spent a then-record US$1.020 trillion on buybacks in the 12 months to September 2025, according to…