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Rajeev Agarwal, Fund Manager & Managing Partner, Doordarshi India Fund, says the policy measures will drive to a very large extent what happens either on the upside or the downside. Markets may not tell the full story because there is a story about some stocks that have risen a lot in 2024 and maybe they will take a little bit of a backseat while some others that have been punished in 2024 may have a better opportunity as we go into 2025. It may be a lot more stock-specific rather than market-specific. But from an Indian stock perspective, the base case of around 13% annual return is quite reasonable. What exactly are you expecting in terms of the market dynamics – globally as well as back home? What’s in store for global markets next year, after they have been navigating through this election cycle, lots of unusual market dynamics as well? Rajeev Agarwal: For 2025, clearly the one big event is Trump taking over the reins as the US President. A lot of policy measures are expected to be introduced by Trump very quickly. Clearly, he has the people that he wanted and many of those will get confirmed. That is going to be the one big event which will drive a lot of the markets.

H-1B visas, a long-contentious issue in American labor and immigration policy. The debate has drawn fresh attention, particularly towards Sriram Krishnan, an India-born venture capitalist and newly appointed senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence in Trump's camp. Critics accuse Krishnan and similar figures of prioritizing immigration policies that allegedly displace American workers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. AMONG EXILED Chinese dissidents, Tang Yuanjun was well known. He had participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and landed in prison as a result.

United States deported one Indian every six hours in 2024, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report released on December 19. The number of Indians deported saw a dramatic 400% increase, rising from 292 individuals in 2021 to 1,529 in 2024. This rise is part of a broader trend of heightened enforcement, with total deportations reaching 2,71,484 globally in 2024, compared to 59,011 in 2021.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years

Here are a few takeaways on electric vehicles in 2024: As of November, the global EV market grew by 25% year-over-year

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s medical technology (medtech) industry is poised for rapid growth in the coming years, with several new players entering the segment to meet the rising global demand for a range of medical devices. The Indian medtech industry is relatively young and will take time to earn the confidence of local hospital chains that source most of their devices from established, foreign multinational corporations (MNCs).

Megalodon’ is set to be unveiled in the year 2025 while aiming to become the world's tallest at an astonishing height of 1,000 feet, reported Express US.

Wikipedia which he derogatorily referred to as ‘Wokepedia’ due to its significant budget allocation for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, reported New York Post.

Apple's third-biggest market -after the US and China-by 2026, with volumes sold locally surging by up to a fifth next year to as many as 15 million units, as the iPhone maker pivots toward other emerging economies to offset the impact of an alarming Chinese market-share shrinkage triggered by Huawei's revival.

Maharaja suite of The Leela Palace Udaipur. For that price, the hotel will throw in a «gala» dinner and breakfast for two, two-way luxury airport transfers, and temple rituals at the 165-year-old Omkareshwar Temple, including the mangala aarti and the sandhya aarti. For those who aren't that keen on all the royal trimmings-the starting package rate for a base category room at the hotel for December 31 is ₹1.21 lakh plus taxes.

 Zelman & Associates executive vice president Ivy Zelman discusses the hurdles of home affordability on 'Barron's Roundtable.'

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump says he told Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky during a Christmas Day visit that he should run for prime minister of Canada.

Manmohan Singh as the Finance Minister of India while P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister of India eventually introduced numerous significant reforms which dismantled the License Raj, devalued the rupee and then opened India to foreign investments. The policies chalked out by Manmohan Singh were extremely important in averting a sovereign default while absolutely stabilizing an Indian economy which was on the brink of collapse that was marked by huge fiscal deficits and high foreign exchange reserves. ET Year-end Special ReadsCorp

Beyoncé teases an announcement on January 14, following the halftime show. Beyoncé hinted after her Christmas Day halftime performance during the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans game that she would make a major announcement in 2025.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a notably active year in 2024 which was highlighted by his extensive private jet travel and growing political involvement with US President- elect Donald Trump. According to Business Insider, his two Gulfstream jets completed 355 flights from the month of January to the month of mid-December while amounting to approximately 881 hours in the air.