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Dell stock falls after downbeat Q4 revenue forecast amid PC weakness

(Reuters) -Dell forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, weighed down by weaker demand for its traditional PCs and competition from rival server makers, sending its shares down more than 10% in extended trading. Despite booming demand for the company's AI-optimized servers used to handle large artificial intelligence workloads, Dell's PC segment has been grappling with stiff competition from rivals and weak consumer spending amid an uncertain economy. Enterprise customers are being mindful of their PC and IT spending in the short term, Dell executives said on a post-earnings conference call, adding that the company's consumer business was weaker than expected.

India's Mahindra bets on premium electric SUVs to boost market share

Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra has launched a new range of electric vehicles as the country's no. 2 SUV maker by volume looks to boost its market share by entering segments dominated by rivals Hyundai Motor and Toyota. Mahindra launched the smaller sporty BE 6e and luxurious XEV 9e electric SUVs late on Tuesday. With its smaller SUV, Mahindra will enter India's fast-growing compact SUV market, which grew nearly 20% in the first six months of the current fiscal year and is dominated by Hyundai's Creta and Toyota's Urban Cruiser Hyryder - both priced between around $13,000 and $24,000.

Trump's policies may pose medium-term risk to inflation, New Zealand central bank official says

A top New Zealand central banker said on Thursday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's economic policies could pose a medium-term risk to inflation though the bank had not conducted any formal modelling on potential impacts. Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) Chief Economist Paul Conway said Trump's policy agenda could result in higher prices and so there could be "more inflation volatility going forward".

SF Holding delivers a lacklustre trading debut in Hong Kong amid tepid market sentiment

SF Holding, China's largest courier deliverer often regarded as the nation's equivalent to FedEx, delivered a flat trading debut in Hong Kong amid tepid sentiment, a precursor to a busy week of stock debuts that will add several billion Hong Kong dollars to this year's listing proceeds. Trading under the 6936 code, SF shares rose by as much as 1.2 per cent to an intraday high of HK$35.50, after opening unchanged from its initial public offering price (IPO) of HK$34.30. The shares ended the day u