Earnings call transcript: LIC posts strong Q1 2026 profit growth as margins widen

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Consider a referee report containing the sentence: “Assignment to treatment was voluntary, though the authors acknowledge this as a limitation in the conclusion.” The Editor would summarily reject. Now replace “assignment to treatment” with “entry into the experimental sample,” and the sentence describes the modal published experiment. This study shows that both biases are the…

Despite lowering guidance for revenue, IBM maintained its expectation for free cash flow to increase by about $1 billion in 2026.

Economics Jul 17, 2026 Kai Guo Like every major economy, China uses industrial policy, and its subsidies have mattered. But subsidies are no longer the most convincing explanation for Chinese firms’ emergence as global leaders in industries that used to be the exclusive…

Breaking a six-month record, the investment banking giant capitalizes on a surging wave of global megadeals. Goldman Sachs said it had advised on more than $1 trillion of announced global mergers and acquisitions so far this year, the fastest any investment bank has reached that milestone in a six-month period, citing data from capital markets…

Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama declined to comment on effectiveness of joint intervention with the US Department of the Treasury, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Early Monday, Katayama stated that Tokyo and Washington conducted coordinated ‌Yen-buying intervention and will not hesitate to take further action. Market reaction At the time of writing, the USD/JPY is up…