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BSE Sensex fell 1.2% to 72,761.89 points, their worst decline since 23 January. The broader market saw worse: The Nifty Small Cap 250 and the Nifty Mid-Cap 150 plunged 5.2% and 4.2% respectively, their steepest one-day plunge in over two years. Comments by the stock market regulator on a potential bubble in the stock market, and a crackdown on several errant companies by the central bank have added to concerns, at a time small and mid-cap stocks have far outpaced the market's gains.

China’s dominance in electronics exports in some key markets as manufacturers diversify supply chains away from the world’s factory to other parts of Asia, a new study shows. The impact is most pronounced in the UK and US, where geopolitical tensions with China have increased in recent years. India’s electronics exports to the US as a ratio of China’s increased to 7.65% in November last year from 2.51% in November 2021, according to London-based Fathom Financial Consulting. In the UK, the share rose to 10% from 4.79%.

Bajaj Finance. The index touched a record 22,186.65 points during the day, before closing 0.37% up at 22,122.25. Despite the benchmark making new life highs in a matter of weeks, analysts believe that valuations aren’t stretched and markets could continue to move up at a gradual pace from current levels.

TORONTO — It’s important to develop a backstop for the insurance industry against major catastrophes like an earthquake, said the head of Canada’s financial institutions regulator Tuesday.

A rapidly changing global environment, certainly, can impose a strategic necessity in reinventing bilateral, regional, and global relationships. At the same time, the evolving nature of foreign policy itself constantly reassesses relationships to maximize national interest. In other words, the forging and enhancement of relationships is not solely driven by externally imposed compulsions.

Wipro Ltd hit 52-week highs, and HCL Technologies Ltd surged to a record high. FPIs net purchased shares worth ₹1,085.72 crore while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) sold shares worth ₹820.69 crore.

CBS News. The US Department of Justice on January 11 pronounced the verdict that eBay had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement after being charged criminally with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of justice. A US couple, Ina and David Steiner, claimed that in August of 2019 they received strange gifts and threats.

By Andrew Silver

Vivo has termed as “continued harassment” the recent arrests made by the enforcement directorate in the prevention of money laundering probe against Chinese smartphone major. The comments came after three more executives, including interim CEO Hong Xuquan and chief financial officer of Vivo’s India operations, were held on Saturday. «We are deeply alarmed by the current action of the authorities.

₹1,464.70 and bears trimmed short bets in Nifty futures contracts. The domestic buying and short covering supported the rally despite foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) selling shares worth a provisional ₹1,636.19 crore. The benchmark indices had shed 1.3-1.4% on Wednesday after a seven-week rally that saw them climb 12% from their lows on 26 October.

By Laura Sanicola and Andrew Hayley

Andrew Holland, CEO, Avendus Capital Alternate Strategies, says “we have been dipping our toes in the power financier space. I think everyone is shifting a little bit away towards this type of financing companies and just away from NBFCs in the short term. There is a lot more to go because it is the renewables sector and it is something important to governments globally and it is going to see a lot of investment. So, the likes of REC will continue to do well and gain market share.” Would you be a buyer of some of these stocks which took it on the chin on Friday – L&T, RBL, some other PSU banks as well? You know it has been interesting. We have kind of been scratching our heads over the past few months about the whole financial sector and particularly the banks with their stellar results. Yes, not great commentary about NIMs, but there was something that was just holding the sector back. And maybe now with what the RBI has done, we know what the concerns were. To my mind, it is kind of fairly well priced, given the underperformance.

White House has issued a response to Elon Musk's recent amplification of a Twitter post that allegedly propagated an antisemitic conspiracy theory. White House spokesman Andrew Bates stated that repeating the appalling falsehood associated with the most egregious act of antisemitism in American history is unacceptable, especially just one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Bates was specifically referencing the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Bates added that White House condemns the abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against the core values of Americans.” “You have said the actual truth,” Musk responded.

A small group of startups have embarked on this quest, pursuing their own variations on this theme — different lasers, different techniques to set off the fusion reactions, different elements to fuse together. «There has been rapid growth,» said Andrew Holland, CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, a trade group lobbying for policies to speed the development of fusion. Private enterprise promises quick innovation, but it was a breakthrough achieved by a big, costly and ponderous government-run project that spurred this wave of attention to laser fusion. Last December, after years of trying, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that it had finally lived up to its middle name: ignition. For the first time anywhere, a laser-induced burst of fusion produced more energy than that supplied by the incoming lasers. «We're really excited by the NIF results,» said Kramer Akli, who manages the internal fusion energy sciences program at the U.S.

₹549 crore, DIIs net purchased ₹595.7 crore, implying that retail direct investors also chipped in significantly to Monday’s rally. The sentiment turned after 1 November when the Fed kept a key interest rate unchanged for a second time since September, after hiking it from near zero last March to 5.25% through July this year . The US 10-year treasury slipped from 4.73% on 1 November to 4.59% intraday 6 November while dollar index which measures the dollar against a basket of six currencies fell 1.85% to 104.90 intraday 6 November over the same period.

Fortescue has quietly scrapped plans for a multi-billion dollar wind and solar farm that was a centrepiece in its plan to decarbonise the company’s iron ore operations in Western Australia.

One of the many impacts of Hollywood's lengthy actors strike has been that most performers haven't been able to promote their work

Jamie Mills O’Brien continues to manage the Global Innovation Equity fund.

The letter, issued a week before the international AI Safety Summit in London, lists measures that governments and companies should take to address AI risks.

Maryland Circuit Court Associate Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot and killed outside his home on Thursday. According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the shooting occurred around 8 p.m.

The former boss of Victoria’s rail agency breached its code of conduct by suggesting that a government joint venture should grant him an equity stake, the state’s auditor-general has found after investigating how $20 million of taxpayer funds were lost on a company created to remotely monitor bridges.