| Raceday focus: Sandown Hillside
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| TRAINER Archie Alexander is planning a Thousand Guineas path for his talented filly Mirette but first wants to see a strong performance from her at Sandown on Wednesday.
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| Activision consolidates global media with OMD
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 Activision, the Santa Monica, California-based video game developer, has consolidated its global media planning and buying with Omnicom's OMD without a review. The change comes about a month after Activision opted to stick with creative incumbent 72andSunny after a competitive review. The media assignment is effective immediately, according to a statement from OMD. First-person shooter game "Call of Duty" is scheduled to release its next version, called "Black Ops 4," on Oct. 12. Activision's other titles include "Destiny" and "Crash."
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| IDBI Bank Q1 loss widens to Rs 2,410 crore
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 State-owned IDBI Bank today reported widening of loss to Rs 2,409.89 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, hurt by higher provisioning for bad loans. The bank had posted a loss of Rs 853 crore in the April-June quarter of last fiscal, 2017-18. Its total provisioning for non performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans more than doubled to Rs 5,236.07 crore during the first quarter of 2018-19, from Rs 2,035.96 crore in the year-ago period. The provision for bad loan alone was Rs 4,602.55 crore, as against Rs 1,873.21 crore. State-owned insurance behemoth LIC has expressed interest in taking up to 51 per cent stake in the debt ridden IDBI Bank. The Union Cabinet has already given its approval to the proposal on August 1. The total income of the bank for the quarter under review also declined to Rs 6,402.50 crore, as against Rs 6,730.88 crore a year ago, IDBI said in a regulatory filing. The bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) soared to Rs 57,806.84 crore, or 30.78 per cent of total .
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| CNNMoney Before the Bell
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 CNN's Christine Romans has the day's top business headlines before the opening bell on Wall Street on Tuesday, August 14.
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