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Samvat 2079 came to an end on Friday, but benchmark Nifty50 has managed to give double-digit returns this year and investors turned wealthier by a staggering Rs 64 lakh crore. The new year as per the Hindu calendar began on a promising note for Dalal Street with benchmark indices hitting lifetime highs on December 1, 2022. However, hawkish monetary policy actions by the US Federal Reserve and expectations of a recession in the world’s largest economy dampened the mood and dragged down markets. Adding fuel to the fire was the explosive report by US-based Hindenburg Research against the Adani Group in late January, which not only triggered an exit by foreign investors from Indian equities, but it eroded over $100 billion wealth only in Adani group stocks within the span of a month. The downfall in the markets saw benchmark indices hit their 52-week lows on March 20, 2023. From its December highs, the index had corrected about 11%. Licking their wounds, the bulls on Dalal Street made a strong comeback and the non-stop run since March-end took the Nifty 50 past the 20000-mark milestone to an all-time high of 20222.45 points. From the March lows, the index has rallied a sharp 20%. While the year brought high levels of volatility amid major global and domestic events, several stocks turned superstars, particularly in the midcap and smallcap segments. The 50-stock index has net gained more than 10% since last Diwali, but the Nifty MidSmallcap 400 index has rallied a whopping 32% in the same period.

David Chepauskas, a senior wealth planner at Summit Financial in Red Bank, New Jersey, embodies the spirit of service in multiple ways. Early in his life, he felt called to volunteer for the military during the Cold War. After all, it runs in the family.

Higher interest rates and inflation have pushed household budgets to beyond their limits, forcing many American consumers to take on more debt.

A $290 million settlement between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and victims of Jeffrey Epstein was approved by a federal judge, who rejected a last-minute challenge from a group of state attorneys general that could have delayed the payout to almost 200 victims. 

There’s been an unwritten rule during the past decade of climate diplomacy: Good things can happen when the world’s two biggest economies are aligned.

US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn signed off on the restructuring on Thursday. Fahrenheit will pivot the business to pay back customers through bitcoin mining and earning "staking" fees by validating blockchain transactions, according to Reuters.

One of the Big Four banks in the U.K., Lloyds Bank, has said that reports of cryptocurrency investment scams by victims have surged by 23% in the current year compared to the same period in 2022.

Elon Musk in the US next week as the two sides look to advance the carmaker's plan to enter the South Asian market, news agency Reuters recently reported. In the US, Goyal will also participate in the investors' roundtable along with meetings with chief executives of top companies.

US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday rattled financial markets worldwide by saying that the central bank was not yet confident that interest rates were at a sufficiently restrictive level to bring inflation to its 2% target. The statement, which leaves the door open for more Fed rate hikes, yanked five-year US bond yields above 5%, pushed the rupee to a record low versus the dollar, and sent stock markets tumbling.

Refinitiv after a glitch on the electronic trading platform caused trading volumes in the foreign exchange market to dry up, causing volatility in the rupee, which marked new lows versus the US dollar on Friday. Market sources told ET that the trading outage, which occurred around mid-day, resulted in orders drying up, exacerbating volatility in the rupee’s exchange rate amid a global selloff in stocks and bonds due to hawkish comments by the US Federal Reserve chairman. The rupee closed at an all-time low of 83.34 per US dollar on Friday. Intraday, the rupee weakened to as much as 83.48/$1, also a fresh low.

Bankman-Fried was convicted after a month-long trial in which he was accused of stealing $8 billion from his crypto exchange users in one of the hugest financial fraud cases in history.

Camlin Fine Sciences(CSFL): The brokerage has an ‘add’ call on the stock with a 1-year as well as 3-year (bull case) target price of ₹300, indicating an upside of 133 percent. "We bake in vanillin benefits in our FY24F estimates to arrive at an EPS of ₹15.1 for FY24F and ₹21.8 for FY25F. We valued the stock at 20x FY24F EPS to arrive at our higher target price of ₹300 from ₹180 earlier," it said.

ALSO READ: Earthquake Today: Indonesia hit by 6.9 measure quake The quake was originally pegged at 5.5 magnitude, with a depth of 8 kilometers (4.97 miles), but later downgraded to a magnitude of 4.8 by EMSC, Reuters reported. Earlier on Friday, an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Papua New Guinea region, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), EMSC said.

The proposed $20 billion takeover of Origin Energy by a private North American duo has now won support from all major proxy advisers, paving the way for a nail-biting lead-up to a decisive shareholder vote on a deal that is opposed by the electricity supplier’s biggest investor.

The latest Cointelegraph AMA, live on October 25, 2023, covered the journey of XBTO, a comprehensive platform for digital assets and tailored investment solutions catered to sophisticated non-US investors and institutions.. The special guest invited to talk about XBTO’s journey, impactful partnerships and position in the industry was Philippe Bekhazi, CEO and founder of XBTO.

world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The bureau estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept.

Gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which are considered a safe haven during uncertain times, and put in Rs 841 crore in October, way higher than Rs 175 crore in the preceding month. Apart from the inflows, the asset base of Gold ETFs also surged in the period under review, as per data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi).

India-Canada Row: India's foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra informed that they had flagged the increasing presence of ‘pro-Khalistan’ incidences and members in North American country Canada to the United States. India on Friday conveyed to the United States its serious concerns over increasing activities of pro-Khalistani elements in Canada. “We have core security concerns.

India Economics Comment: The fog of food prices, also highlighted the likelihood of muted rural demand putting fiscal pressure on the government ahead of elections. Retail inflation in India, which had climbed to a 15-month peak in July, moderated to 5.02% in September, aided by softening food prices. The surge in July food inflation to 11.5%, a three-year record, has since tempered to 6.56% in September.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on Thursday approved Adzynma, the first recombinant (genetically engineered) protein product indicated for on-demand enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in adult and pediatric patients with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (cTTP), a rare and life-threatening blood clotting disorder. The FDA granted approval of Adzynma to Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. Inc.