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Read all the latest updates on Israel-Hamas war at Mint's LIVE blog:United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the US has Israel's back."The United States has Israel's back. We will stand with it today, tomorrow, and every day, and we're doing that in word and also in deed," Blinken said.US President Joe Biden said he is "confident" Israel will act under the rules of war in its conflict with Palestine.In an interview with "60 Minutes," Biden said that while he believes Hamas must be eliminated entirely, there must be a path for a Palestinian state.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said that the United States should not accept Palestinian refugees escaping from Gaza.

Analysts expect markets to remain range-bound for next week, as they will take further cues from a surge in crude oil prices, the Israel conflict, banks' quarterly results. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a positive start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded higher by 25 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 19725.50, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for positive start on Monday.

Parul Mittal Sinha, head-financial markets, India at Standard Chartered Bank. In an interview with Bhaskar Dutta, she said the Indian rupee will be relatively better performing despite the strengthening US dollar. Edited excerpts: The RBI sounds hawkish but when it comes to action it is not so harsh. How do you read the central bank? Our expectation is that the RBI will not do any more rate hikes. In the previous policy, they did mention that they are very focused on bringing inflation down. They think that their policy measures are taking effect; it's going to be a slower move than probably anticipated earlier. We think there isn't a need to raise the repo rate, but they will use other tools. OMO (open market operations) sales are one tool that they have spoken of in the latest policy. They have used ICRR (Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio) before; they'll probably do a CRR hike if required, but they have increased the hurdle to increase the repo rate itself.

finance, the delicate balance between interest rates, economic growth, and global currency dynamics often holds the key to stability or turmoil. Lately, an intriguing scenario has been playing out in the United States, with far-reaching implications for the country's financial markets and the global economy. When nominal interest rates, such as those on government bonds, exceed the nominal growth rate of a country's economy, it triggers a cascade of economic consequences. Here are some of the key repercussions:

New York-listed Albemarle has walked away from its $6.6 billion takeover bid of West Australian lithium hopeful Liontown Resources, citing the “growing complexities” of undertaking the transaction.

UEFA EURO 2024 Qualifiers are just around the corner, and football fans worldwide are eager to catch the thrilling matches. The vast appeal of these qualifiers is evident by their extensive broadcast reach, covering regions from Europe to Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, the Middle East, and Oceania. To help you keep up with the action, here's a list of broadcast partners for several nations: United States: Fox Sports fubo TV TUDN Canada: DAZN Canada TVA Sports Australia: Optus Australia India: Sony Six United Kingdom: Channel 4 S4C Viaplay For our readers outside these major nations, here's a glimpse of where you can watch the qualifiers: Albania: Digitalb, TV Klan Germany: ARD, DAZN, RTL, ZDF Italy: Mediaset, RAI, Sky Italia Spain: TVE Turkey: Saran, TRT United Kingdom: Channel 4, S4C, Viaplay Argentina: ESPN Latin America Brazil: ESPN Brazil – Globo, ESPN Brazil China: Super Sports China Japan: DAZN Japan Saudi Arabia: beIN sports South Africa: Supersport

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives will vote to choose a new speaker on Tuesday at approximately 12:00 p.m. (1600 GMT), No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark said on Sunday.

By Dietrich Knauth and Nate Raymond

Stocks on Wall Street ended mostly lower on Friday to wrap up a volatile week, as a spike in oil prices and rising inflation expectations soured investors on riskier bets.

(Reuters) — Canadian labor union Unifor on Sunday said its members had voted in favor of a contract with General Motors (NYSE:GM), a relief for the automaker as it also faces a larger strike by hourly workers in the United States.

By Anirban Sen

₹300 crore financial facility to Byju’s parent, Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd, as part of a broader transaction that is expected to facilitate a partial exit for the Chaudhry family from Aakash Educational Services Ltd, two people with knowledge of the deal said. Pai’s total investment in the group might reach $300 million if all the pieces of the deal fall in place, one of the people cited above said.

Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States' two biggest strategic competitors. Putin will attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct.

The S&P 500 Index nudged higher by 0.45% to record its second positive week. While the United States equities markets were a slow mover, gold witnessed a massive run-up of more than 5% this week. Its rally of 3.11% on Oct. 13 was its best one-day performance since Dec. 1 of last year. However, the Bitcoin (BTC) bulls did not have any such luck as Bitcoin is on track to end the week down more than 3%.

IMEC) and India-Israel-USA-UAE projects, China has launched dialogue across the region seeking to align BRI with Turkiye's Middle Corridor Initiative. Turkiye had decried IMEC, which is aimed at rivaling BRI in the region and this week's BRI summit in China is expected to witness efforts to align Ankara's Middle Corridor Initiative with BRI. The two sides recently held a high-level dialogue on the issue, ET has learnt. IMEC was announced on the sidelines of the G20 summit here in the presence of leaders of the USA, Saudi Arabia, India and Europe. Trans-Caspian East-West-Middle Corridor Initiative shortly named as 'The Middle Corridor', begins in Turkiye and passes through the Caucasus region via Georgia, Azerbaijan, crosses the Caspian Sea, traverses Central Asia and reaches China, according to a Turkish foreign ministry document.

BHP directors have been accused of going soft on top executives over the “underpayment” of staff, with proxy adviser CGI Glass Lewis telling the board it expects more “consequences” for the incident to be felt in next year’s pay.

Ozempic, the wonder drug used to treat diabetes that has become a global phenomenon as a weight-loss treatment, is challenging the blue-chip status of some of the ASX’s best known companies as short sellers bet the blockbuster drug and its equivalents will wreak further havoc on market valuations.

On September 29, 2023, OpenTrade, a notable platform bridging traditional financial markets with digital asset realms, declared a strategic collaboration with WOO X, enabling its user base to tap into tokenized Treasury Bills (T-Bills) and avail USDC-collateralized loans against liquid assets on a blockchain infrastructure, according to WOO official blog. This initiative is engineered through OpenTrade's recent unveiling of tokenized T-Bills on Circle Research’s Perimeter Protocol.

The Securities and Exchange Commission won’t ask a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision that paves the way for Grayscale Investments to launch a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Reuters report. “I don't think these are healthy thoughts in the minds of healthy people, because to say that the United States is preparing for war with Russia, well we are all preparing for war because we follow the ancient principle: if you want peace, get ready for war," Putin said in a video clip posted on Telegram. “But we want peace," he added with a chuckle.

More than 750,000 students from India went abroad to study in 2022. While loans are an option to fund this education, parents typically end up either partially or fully funding their child’s education. A four-year undergraduate degree today can cost anywhere between ₹80 lakh and ₹2.5 crore, while a two-year master’s degree ranges from ₹50 lakh to ₹1.5 crore. Funding this education is a major expense for any parent.