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(Bloomberg) -- After securing more than $20 billion in investment from the likes of Google and Facebook Inc., Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani laid out a vision for his digital venture as he seeks to build a homegrown technology titan that could rival global giants.Outlining plans for Jio Platforms Ltd. at the annual shareholders meeting of his conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. on Wednesday, Asia’s richest man talked mostly technology. He unveiled a slew of services, including a fifth-generation wireless network as early as next year and a mega video-streaming platform that will bring Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime and dozens of other TV channels under one umbrella.“I believe that the time has come for a truly global digital product and services company to emerge from India, and to be counted among the best in the world,” the tycoon told the 300,000-plus people who logged into the virtual conference from 41 countries.Ambani, 63,...
AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) shares popped Tuesday after researchers found that the large-cap pharma's cholesterol-lowering drug Tricor could work against SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19.What Happened: Researchers at Israel's Hebrew University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York said FDA-approved Tricor could potentially downgrade COVID-19's severity into "nothing worse than a common cold," Israeli media reported.Tricor impairs the replicating potential of the new coronavirus or even could eradicate it, the reports said, citing Hebrew University professor Ya'acov Nahmias and Sinai's Dr. Benjamin tenOever.See Also: Moderna's Stock Jumps After Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Positive Results In Phase 1 Clinical TrialHow Tricor Acts: Following three months of in vitro, or lab, studies and a review of eight already approved drugs, the researchers found that Tricor burns fat, causing the virus to disappear with merely five days of treatment.SARS-Co-V2 was found to impede with the carbohydrate metabolism, leading to the accumulation of...
(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made the most of a historic market rebound in the second quarter as the Federal Reserve’s stimulus efforts handed a bonanza to Wall Street trading desks.Revenue from trading stocks and bonds surged 93%, surpassing what analysts had expected by about $2.5 billion and mirroring similar gains reported Tuesday by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. The bank also raked in record fees from helping companies raise cash needed to weather the coronavirus pandemic.“The turbulence we have seen in recent months only reinforces our commitment to the strategy we outlined earlier this year to investors,” Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said in a statement Wednesday.The full force of the Fed helped rescue markets reeling from the outbreak and government stay-at-home orders, which had ground economies to a halt around the world. Policy makers’ emergency measures sent companies racing to tap funding sources, and the biggest...
(Bloomberg) -- A hedge fund manager who returned 47% this year by betting on gold and Treasuries says the next decade is going to be marked by inflation that central banks are powerless to control.Diego Parrilla, who heads the $450 million Quadriga Igneo fund, says unprecedented monetary stimulus is fueling asset bubbles and corporate debt addiction -- rendering interest-rate hikes impossible without an economic crash. In the ensuing market mania, the manager whose portfolio is loaded up with cross-asset hedges says gold could rise to $3,000 to $5,000 an ounce in the next three to five years, up from the current price of $1,800.“What you’re going to see in the next decade is this desperate effort, which is already very obvious, where banks and government just print money and borrow, and bail everyone out, whatever it takes, just to prevent the entire system from collapsing,” Parrilla said in an interview from...
