đź‘€Swiggy IPO to Test India's Appetite for Billion-Dollar Tech Listings
Swiggy’s IPO will gauge India's interest in billion-dollar tech listings as it aims to expand its quick-commerce model, already popular in major cities. With backing from major investors like Prosus and SoftBank, the IPO also highlights India’s rapid digital shift, though profitability in smaller cities remains a question for the long term.
đź‘€Swiggy IPO to Test India's Appetite for Billion-Dollar Tech Listings
Swiggy’s IPO will gauge India's interest in billion-dollar tech listings as it aims to expand its quick-commerce model, already popular in major cities. With backing from major investors like Prosus and SoftBank, the IPO also highlights India’s rapid digital shift, though profitability in smaller cities remains a question for the long term.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. Under the Sebi Act, the regulator has the power to carry out search and seizure of books, registers, documents including electronics and digital devices from any person associated with the securities market. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies.
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