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During the course of these 18 months, the markets have had to digest the volatility on accounts of the Ukraine-Russia war, over $40 billion of FII selling, the fastest interest rates hike by global central banks and concerns about India’s valuation amongst developed and emerging economies. After digesting all of the above, the markets have scaled new lifetime highs and are poised for some more in the coming few months.

Nifty has seen a classic fight between bulls and bears, with attempts to break the all-time high level seen in December 2022. While Sensex has touched an all time high, Nifty experienced consolidation at higher levels. Interestingly, the Bank Nifty index has shown more weakness compared to the Nifty.

rupee depreciated by 28 paise to end at 82.51 against the American currency. Investors will now focus on the crucial US non-farm payrolls (NFP) data to be released later in the day.

Oil prices were largely unchanged on Friday, but set to post weekly gains, as fears of higher U.S. interest rates that could dampen energy demand were offset by signs of tighter supply after a larger-than-expected fall in U.S. oil stocks.

The Russian finance ministry has reportedly proposed banning the circulation of crypto in the nation, but wants to make exceptions for stablecoin issuers and crypto miners.

Binance's chief strategy officer Patrick Hillmann has confirmed he is leaving the crypto exchange amid reports that other top executives in the United States have been departing as a result of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation.

RBI, which is supposed to have the last word on rupee? The letter made no difference. Punters had the last laugh. Those days, RBI either sharply reacted to such phenomena, or shut its eyes when there was nothing it could do — as it refused to acknowledge the flourishing non-deliverable forward (NDF) market in Singapore, London and New York where big banks took positions on `/$ forwards and settled the trade in dollars.

₹8-9 a litre in Q1. Moderation in both crude costs and softer product prices are likely to benefit OMCs’ marketing earnings in Q1, they said. The OMCs are being allowed to recover their losses on marketing during a high crude price environment.

Anime Expo 2023, a big lineup of anime on its side including Goblin Slayer Season 2, The Kingdom of Ruin, The Lord of Rust Mountain, and many more. Crunchyroll also released a new trailer for A- Pictures Solo Leaving and A Returner's Magic Should Be Special at the Anime Expo. A collaboration between My Hero Academia, TOHO animation, Crunchyroll, the NBA, NBALAB, and Hyperfly is also releasing a line of streetwear clothing.

Russia fired cruise missiles on Thursday at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least four people in an apartment building in what officials said was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since the Kremlin's forces invaded the country last year. The nighttime attack destroyed the roof and the top two floors of a residential building, injuring 34 people. Emergency crews with search dogs went through the rubble.

Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has initiated a Safeguard duty (Quantitative Restrictions) investigation concerning imports of low ash metallurgical coke (Met Coke) into India. This probe has been triggered after complaints from BLA Private Limited, Jindal Coke Limited, Saurashtra Fuels Private Limited, Vedanta Malco Energy Limited, and Visa Coke Limited. According to a DGTR notice, the applicants have alleged that there has been a ‘sudden, sharp, significant, and recent’ increase in volume of low ash metallurgical coke imports in India.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is gradually solidifying its status as a go-to Bitcoin (BTC) mining destination in the Middle East. The country has established itself as a pro-Web3 destination for crypto-focused companies with over 30 free trade zones and a growing contribution to the Bitcoin mining hash rate.

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Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president said on Thursday, despite a deal with the Kremlin for him to move to Belarus following his failed insurrection last month. «As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in Saint Petersburg… He is not in Belarus,» Alexander Lukashenko told reporters from foreign media outlets. Lukashenko said that fighters from Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary group have also not moved to Belarus yet, despite an offer from the Kremlin for those who took part in the failed mutiny to do so. «At the moment the question of their transfer and set-up has not been decided,» Lukashenko said. «I am absolutely not worried or concerned that we will host a certain number of these fighters here,» he added.

Russia, a squadron of Russian SU-35 fighter aircraft engaged in dangerous behavior by harassing US MQ-9 drones over Syrian airspace on Wednesday. Departing from established norms and protocols, the Russian fighters deployed parachute flares directly in the flight path of the American drones, creating a hazardous situation. The US Air Forces Central swiftly responded to the incident by releasing a video footage that vividly captured the encounter.

Dayanand Mittal, Research Analyst, JM Financials, says “in an election year, high crude prices may not be the right thing for OMCs. Currently they are making good money. Our sense is that probably in a month or so, once they recoup last year’s losses, the government will ask them to pass this on to the end consumers to tame inflation.

«Now, whether there is a right time to cut the prices or not when the crude prices were going up, when the prices were not increased, there were definitely a strain on the oil marketing companies. And I think that it is logical for them to recover if they had some sort of under-requirements which they had obviously,» says MK Surana, Former CMD, HPCL.With crude now largely settling around the $75 to a barrel mark, is it really time for OMCs to cut prices? And is there merit in believing that they are now in a sweet spot?First, it is a good thing for the country and for the OMCs that the oil prices are benign, in spite of some sort of production cuts announced even just yesterday by Saudi and some sort of export restriction by Russia.

Investing.com — Oil prices rose slightly in Asian trade on Thursday as markets weighed signs of a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. inventories and tighter supplies against fears of rising interest rates. 

Behind the deadly front lines where Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are locked in combat, a less-noticed life-or-death battle is raging to keep troops supplied with arms and ammunition. The side that loses that fight is the one that will lose the war. It is a lesson Washington is relearning.

This 50-acre plot in Oradea, Romania, close to the border with Hungary, beat out scores of other sites in Europe to become the home of Nokian Tyres’ new 650 million-euro ($706 million) factory. Like an industrial-minded Goldilocks, the Finnish tire company had searched for the just-right combination of real estate, transport links, labor supply and pro-business environment. Yet the make-or-break feature that every host country had to have would not have even appeared on the radar a few years ago: membership in both the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

rupee depreciated 20 paise to close at 82.23 against the US dollar on Wednesday Most Asian currencies were down 0.2% to 0.4%. The 2-year Treasury yield rose to 4.9630% in Asia, hovering near the highest since March, Reuters reported.