CHENNAI: Stress in the sector has left microfinance institutions bleeding. Listed MFIs have either reported a loss or a substantial decrease in their profits in the March quarter. This comes on the back of multiple factors including deterioration in asset quality, rising credit costs, borrower overleveraging and rising borrower overlaps that impacted the performance of…
A year ago, the world’s biggest automaker was on a tear. American consumers were snapping up Toyota Motor’s hybrids, and a weak yen inflated the value of the company’s earnings. That May, Toyota reported the highest annual profit ever recorded by a Japanese firm. On Thursday, Toyota presented a significantly more somber outlook, projecting that…
Automobile giant Ford hit a huge bump in its first quarter profits, reporting a sharp fall of 65% on Monday. The company also withdrew its forecast for 2025 amid tariff uncertainty as auto sales fell due to the launch of new vehicles.The company posted $471 million in profits for the quarter, a figure that exceeded…
The two largest U.S. oil companies reported their lowest first-quarter profits in years on Friday as they braced for the economic fallout from President Trump’s trade war, which has weakened consumer confidence and pushed oil prices down. U.S. crude prices slipped below $60 a barrel this week, a threshold below which many companies cannot make…
Elon Musk is facing one of his toughest tests yet: restoring confidence in Tesla’s brand. The electric carmaker has seen its profits plunge by 71 percent in the first quarter of 2025, driven largely by a backlash against Musk’s political affiliations and controversial role in President Donald Trump’s administration.Sales of Tesla vehicles across Europe have…
MUMBAI: Corporate profits grew 15.3% in FY24, despite sluggish sales growth of around 5.5%, on the back of cost rationalisation, an RBI report said. The services sector outperformed manufacturing in both sales and profit growth, reversing the trend from FY23 when sales grew faster than profits.Despite sluggish sales, operating expenses rose 3.4% in FY24, mainly…
Warren E. Buffett, the famed investor known for his enthusiasm for undervalued stocks and businesses, is feeling bullish these days about a traditionally staid investment: Treasury bills. The cash stockpile held by Berkshire Hathaway, his sprawling multinational conglomerate, rose past $334 billion at the end of last year, including $286 billion in short-term Treasuries. The…
Amazon saw healthy consumer sales and a pickup in its cloud computing business in its latest quarter, but the company told investors on Thursday to expect slowing growth ahead. Sales from October through December hit $187.8 billion, up 10 percent from a year earlier. Profit rose 88 percent, to $20 billion. Both were roughly in…
“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago. But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President Trump’s inauguration. It may be…
This year just got started, but it is already shaping up nicely for U.S. airlines. After several setbacks, the industry ended 2024 in a fairly strong position because of healthy demand for tickets and the ability of several airlines to control costs and raise fares, experts said. Barring any big problems, airlines — especially the…