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Asian shares extended a global sell-off on Wednesday while the dollar held gains as market optimism about early and aggressive U.S. interest rate cuts ebbed ahead of the release of Fed minutes and jobs data. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.1% after a 1.0% drop the previous day in a sluggish start of the new year.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Also Read: Day trading guide for today: Six stocks to buy or sell on Wednesday —January 3 Here are key global market cues for Sensex today: Asian markets traded lower on Wednesday tracking overnight weakness on Wall Street indices. Japan’s markets are closed until January 4.

BEIJING — BYD said Monday it produced more than 3 million new energy vehicles in 2023, putting the Chinese electric car giant on track to surpass Tesla's production for a second straight year.

In the last week of 2023, India’s share in global market capitalization hit a record 3.8%, according to Bloomberg data, consolidating the country’s position as the fifth biggest equity market, just behind Hong Kong. In nominal terms, India’s GDP is also the world’s fifth largest (by purchasing power parity, or PPP, it is the third largest).

Catch Live Market Updates here The Indian stock market indices ended flat on Monday, the first trading of the new year 2024, while the second rung midcap and smallcap indices clocked healthy gains. The Sensex gained 31.68 points, or 0.04%, to close at 72,271.9, while the Nifty 50 ended 10.50 points, or 0.05%, higher at 21,741.90. “Market exhibited strength led by optimism on rate cuts, easing global inflation, and softer bond yields.

₹2,300 per tonne, effective Tuesday.For the past two weeks, the levy -- Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED) -- on domestic crude oil was at ₹1,300 per tonne.The ministry, through a notification, has brought down the additional excise duty on the export of diesel and aviation turbine fuel to zero.The increase in the windfall tax on the sale of locally produced crude oil comes at a time when the price of crude oil has largely been steady. On Friday, 29 December, the March contract of Brent on the Intercontinental Exchange closed at $77.49 per barrel, against $76.55 on 15 December.

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HONG KONG—Investors in China’s biggest internet companies have suffered through a tumultuous 2021, a lackluster 2022 and a disappointing 2023. After a lousy three years for the once-hot sector, many investors are asking—where do things go from here? The Chinese internet sector has lost more than $1.2 trillion in market value since the start of a regulatory crackdown that has resulted in fines, troubled restructuring attempts and changes to business strategies.

Also Read: Stock market holiday 2024: Check days, dates, and trading holidays in the new year Meanwhile, most of Europe and Asia will also have a market holiday today. Among European markets that will remain closed today on account of New Year’s Day include that of France, Germany and Italy.

Asian markets are closed today. The US and most European markets will also remain closed today. Catch Live Market Updates here The domestic benchmark indices ended on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, on a negative note, snapping their five-day winning streak, on profit-booking in select heavyweights.

India recorded a trade deficit with nine of its top ten trade partners in the first seven months of 2023-24, with the US being the only country with which exports exceeded imports. India's trade surplus with the US — its largest trading partner — was $19.59 billion in the April-October period, show data from the commerce and industry ministry. However, with China, the second largest partner, the deficit was a whopping $51.11 billion, followed by a $33.56 billion gap with Russia, the fourth largest trade partner of India.

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index touched a 33-year high, Hong Kong rounded out its fourth straight year of decline and India emerged as a leader in IPOs, Nikkei reported. One of the biggest drivers behind this divergence was disappointment in China's post-Covid recovery. Hong Kong's flagship Hang Seng Index (HSI), which tracks 80 blue chip stocks, has dropped 13.8 per cent this year, its first four-year losing streak since its launch in 1969, Nikkei reported. As investors shift away from greater China, their attention is moving to Japan, India and the tech hubs of Taiwan and South Korea. The major indexes in these markets rose by more than double digits in 2023, with Japan's Nikkei 225 leading the pack at nearly 30 per cent, Nikkei reported. The comeback of Japanese shares was a result of multiple factors, including improved corporate governance, something the country's regulators have been working on for over a decade in hopes of stimulating investment from abroad. BlackRock this month reaffirmed its «overweight» position on Japanese equities for the next six to 12 months.

rose around 20 per cent in 2023, logging their second-best year since 2017. D-Street investors added a significant ₹81.90 lakh crore to their wealth in 2023 powered by a stellar rally in stocks. The bull run was supported by sustained domestic mutual fund inflows, foreign capital inflows, better-than-expected economic growth, and robust corporate earnings.

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Asian shares are mixed in muted trading on the last trading day of the year

U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains

customs departments of India and Hong Kong have jointly busted a money-laundering network, where foreign currency was remitted out of India against import of cheap synthetic diamonds, the finance ministry said on Friday. The racket involved Indian traders who were importing synthetic diamonds from Hong Kong by wrongly declaring them as real ones, it said. The two authorities have arrested four people each. "Indian customs and Hong Kong customs have unearthed a major case of trade-based money laundering involving Hong Kong-based exporters and Indian importers located in (a) special economic zone in an exemplary case of bilateral cooperation and exchange of information," a finance ministry statement said. Earlier this year, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) detected a case where cheap synthetic diamonds were imported into India by overvaluing them more than 100 times, to remit foreign currency out of India.

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