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The United States and its allies are set to escalate sanctions against the militant group Hamas in the coming days.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Measures such as the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act are unlikely to stop firms from going abroad, as companies thrive through competition and not through regulation or subsidies, the chairman of Chinese battery maker Gotion High Tech said.

Investing.com — US stock futures were trading in a mixed fashion during Thursday's evening deals after major benchmark averages retreated as rate hike fears resurfaced.

Lord Kuber, Lord Dhanvantri, and Goddess Laxmi. The lighting of diyas and candles outside their homes is a common practice. This year, Dhanteras falls on November 10, 2023, during the month of Kartik on Trayodashi Tithi, which is the thirteenth day of the lunar fortnight in the Krishna Paksha. It is advisable to perform the puja during the auspicious time. Here are the shubh choghadiya timings according to the panchang, when you can perform the puja and seek the blessings of Goddess Laxmi: — Laabh Choghadiya: 08:00 AM to 09:22 AM — Amrit Choghadiya: 09:22 AM to 10:43 AM — Shubh Choghadiya: 12:04 PM to 01:26 PM — Laabh Choghadiya: 08:47 PM to 10:26 PM Dhanteras 2023: Puja Muhurat

Pawan Parakh, Portfolio Manager, Renaissance Investment, says “focussed more on pharma companies with US exposure as of now. Across the board, the data is very loud and clear that there is some sort of shortage in the US. The pricing erosion is no longer there. In fact, some of the companies anecdotally have got clearances for their factories. The cycle, which was not in favour of these companies for the last so many quarters and years, seems to be turning in their favour. There is this whole debate about whether the small and midcaps are now getting frothy, whether the next lap of the move is going to come in from the largecaps. Do you now need to turn cautious when it comes to the broader end of the market? What's your take? I completely agree with that argument. In fact, when I was there last time on your channel, I did highlight that. I could see a lot of froth in low-quality midcap, smallcap stocks given the rally that has happened over the last four, five months. And if you take slightly longer periods, say about a year or so, at the index level, while companies have reported decent sets of numbers, at the index level, the Nifty Index has not delivered anything. So very clearly, there is some sort of froth getting built up into midcap, smallcap names. One has to be really cautious about it at this point in time.

Dhanteras today, gold investors would be sitting on near 20% returns accrued by the yellow metal since last Dhanteras. As an asset class, yellow metal has outperformed its equity market peers in Nifty and the BSE Sensex during this period. Gold's returns are neary two-fold in comparison to Nifty and Sensex which have delivered returns of 10.34% and 9.31%, respectively, since last Dhanteras which fell on October 22, 2022.

United States federal prosecutors have managed to put SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony’s bail release order on hold, citing flight risk and his release being a possible “danger to the community.

₹25 crore, according to NDTV. Track our Markets LIVE here Salman Sheikh made this remarkable find on November 1 and, astonished by his discovery, decided to keep the bundles.

IndiGo is gearing up to launch an electrifying air taxi service. India's leading airline is set to offer a cost-competitive solution. It will solve the perennial problem of urban traffic congestion.

gold allocation has benefited investors. With returns on gold mutual funds as of October-end close to 20% y-o-y, many of us might have missed the gold rally. But don’t let that dampen the Diwali spirit. Prospects for gold are looking good in the long term, giving you more reason than just the festivities to invest in the precious metal. International gold prices bottomed out in October last year and started moving up slowly over the next six months as the Federal Reserve became less aggressive with its rate hikes. Prices moved up sharply in March 2023 as a regional banking crisis erupted in the US and drove risk assets down. Risk aversion and expectations of Fed cutting rates in response to the crisis were the drivers. But the crisis did not spread to other parts of the economy and gold cooled off in the subsequent months. Meanwhile, inflation remained more than double the Fed's 2% target and US economic indicators were showing resilience, meaning there was more requirement and more room to hike rates. Fed began indicating a hawkish stance again. US yields and US dollar moved up and gold moved lower till September.

Vipul Shah, Chairman, Gem & Jewellery Exports Promotion Council (GJEPC). In an interaction with ET Digital, Shah says he is upbeat about the prospects of the gems & jewellery sector as the industry expects the ongoing festive month to give a sharp surge in demand.

Forex traders said negative equity market sentiment and selling pressure from foreign investors kept the Indian currency range-bound. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 83.28, higher by 1 paisa from its previous close. On Thursday, the rupee closed at 83.29 against the American currency.

Manish Chokhani, Director, Enam Holdings, says “I am not a believer that you make everyone poorer and distribute the poverty. You have to make everyone richer and pull them up. I am hopeful this happens and everything is back on balance. I have no axe to grind, I have no products to sell, no brokerage to run, no mutual fund to sell and I have invested myself. I really think the next 20 years is really India's period, it is for us to lose.” You have said that when India's market cap was not even a trillion dollars, five corporate houses would be building the next couple of trillion dollars for us and that time you were vocal about Reliance. BATAJ. Yes. We called it.

BlackRock Inc. is looking to launch an exchange-traded fund that would be centered on Ether, helping to spur a rally in the second-largest cryptocurrency. Nasdaq, the exchange that BlackRock is working with on the ETF, on Thursday submitted what’s known as a 19b-4 form, marking the next step in the process to get such a fund launched. The Wall Street behemoth had earlier registered paperwork in Delaware for the fund, according to documents posted to the Delaware Department of State Division of Corporations website. The move marks BlackRock’s second major foray into crypto-centric ETFs after it filed for a Bitcoin spot fund in June. That application helped spur a rally for digital assets and lured other issuers into getting into the race. The price of Ether rose as much as 11% on Thursday, crossing above $2,000 and hitting the highest level since April, data compiled by Bloomberg show. VanEck, Invesco, 21Shares and others have filings for spot-Ether ETFs as well.

“Despite robust macro and healthy earnings trajectory India cannot stay fully immune to global factors,” says Kedar Kadam, Director — Listed Investments, Waterfield Advisors. In an interview with ETMarkets, Kadam said: “In our view, one should stay put and use the market declines to add more in a staggered manner from a 3-4 years perspective” Edited excerpts: We have seen some correction from the highs in both Sensex and Nifty. What is fueling the fall – is it the combination of rise in US Yields and geopolitical concerns? I reiterate my earlier stance, despite robust macro and healthy earnings trajectory India cannot stay fully immune to global factors.

US Federal Reserve is prepared, if needed, to hike interest rates further in order to bring inflation down to its long-term two percent target, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday. «We know that ongoing progress toward our two percent goal is not assured: Inflation has given us a few head fakes,» Powell told a conference in Washington. «If it becomes appropriate to tighten policy further, we will not hesitate to do so,» he added, in remarks that were briefly disrupted by climate protesters. Powell's comments come just over a week after the US central bank voted to hold interest rates steady at a 22-year high for a second consecutive meeting, fueling expectations that it was done with rate hikes. While the Fed's rate-setting committee is «committed» to achieving a sufficiently tight stance of monetary policy, «we are not confident that we have achieved such a stance,» Powell said. The Fed chair's comments suggest the US central bank is still concerned about the prospect of a re-acceleration of inflation, which has more than halved since peaking last year, according to the Fed's favored yardstick. However, Powell later indicated that he felt the Fed was «probably» at a point where its monetary policy was «significantly restrictive,» suggesting that the Fed felt confident in its current stance. «We're watching the effect carefully on the economy,» he said.

Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing American troops at about 5 a.m, according to two U.S.

chikungunya, a virus spread by infected mosquitoes that the Food and Drug Administration called «an emerging global health threat.» The vaccine, developed by Europe's Valneva which will be marketed under the name Ixchiq, was approved for people 18 and over who are at increased risk of exposure, the FDA said. Ixchiq's green-light by the US drug regulator is expected to speed the vaccine's rollout in countries where the virus is most prevalent. Chikungunya, which causes fever and severe joint pain, is generally seen in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southeast Asia and parts of the Americas. «However, chikungunya virus has spread to new geographical areas causing a rise in global prevalence of the disease,» the FDA said, reporting more than five million cases in the past 15 years. «Infection with chikungunya virus can lead to severe disease and prolonged health problems, particularly for older adults and individuals with underlying medical conditions,» senior FDA official Peter Marks said in a statement. «Today's approval addresses an unmet medical need and is an important advancement in the prevention of a potentially debilitating disease with limited treatment options.» Symptoms can sometimes last for months or even years, but the virus is rarely fatal.

Asian stocks fell to their lowest in a week on Friday, while the dollar was firm as elevated Treasury yields weighed on sentiment after hawkish comments from U.S. Fed Chair Jerome Powell extinguished expectations of a peak in interest rates. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1% to a one-week low of 486.39, while Japan's Nikkei was 0.50% lower.

Gaza Strip, according to a report published by The Guardian, citing sources familiar with the negotiations. This came in exchange for releasing some hostages held early in the war. However, other sources indicated that the negotiations started prior to the Israeli ground invasion which resumed after October 27 and Netanyahu took a tough line on proposals involving a ceasefire in return for hostages.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will join Blinken in talks with India's foreign minister S Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh. The annual dialogue is expected to focus on "defence and security cooperation", the report added. Overall, the discussions are expected to cover a range of issues, including the ongoing border dispute with China, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the challenge posed by the conflict in Gaza to key trade and transport routes linking Europe, the Middle East, and India.