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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of LG Electronics India Ltd (LGE India) traded around 3% higher on Friday, recovering losses from the previous session following weak December-quarter (Q3FY26) performance, where both revenue and profit fell short of expectations. Investors appear to be taking a longer-term view, encouraged by management’s relatively upbeat outlook.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Just as nerves were fraying, a breakthrough in US-India trade negotiations offered domestic markets much-needed succour. Against this backdrop, Mint’s sixth quarterly market survey, conducted between 5 and 11 February, captured the precise moment when investor sentiment began to pivot.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The typical story of retail investors joining market rallies at their fag end might be playing out in gold, with its exchange traded funds (ETFs) recording a late gush of inflows. In January, these reached ₹24,040 crore, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India, up several fold from ₹3,742 crore as recently as in November.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: The Indian equity benchmarks concluded Wednesday's session on a mixed note, with Nifty 50 managing a marginal 0.07% gain to settle at 25,953.85, while Sensex snapped its three-day winning streak, slipping 0.05% to close at 84,233.64. The session was characterized by a sharp divergence in sectoral performance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Union budget for FY27 has squarely addressed the challenges faced by Indian businesses due to higher tariffs and other global challenges, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament on Wednesday, enumerating specific budget measures and countering charges made by Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi that the budget acknowledged these challenges but failed to tackle them.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What do personal finances look like for someone worth billions? The Epstein files provide a rare look. The complex finances of former Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Officer Leon Black are laid out in several documents in the Justice Department’s recent releases, down to the exact balances in each of his 69 bank accounts and the details of a $484 million loan backed by his extensive art collection.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s decision to allow imports of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) under the interim trade framework with the US will help bridge the country’s protein deficit in animal feed and offer a cost-effective alternative to conventional feed ingredients, the chief of the Indian Dairy Association (IDA) said. Affordability is a key concern for small and marginal dairy farmers, as fodder accounts for nearly 60% of the cost of milk production.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the pharmaceutical world, a CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) is essentially the “powerhouse behind the brand". Instead of a pharma company building its own factories and labs, which costs a lo, they hire a CDMO to handle everything from the initial drug chemistry to mass-producing the final pills or injections.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) law, notified on Tuesday, may set Big Tech scrambling to put in place adequate content moderation teams after New Delhi drastically shortened timelines for taking down deepfake posts with nudity, defamatory and other illicit content. The Centre has maintained that most technology firms are well-equipped to automate scanning and curb harmful content online.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Smart supply-chain manoeuvres and assembling in the United States helped India’s top solar panel exporter Waaree Energies maintain its lucrative trade with the country in the face of steep 50% tariffs on India, even as the exports of its main domestic rival Adani New Industries Limited faltered. Waaree sourced solar cells, the building blocks of solar panels, from suppliers in Southeast Asia to escape the crippling tariffs levied on India, the company’s management said during recent investor calls, as the US tariffs on solar panel imports are levied based on the country of origin of the solar cells rather than the country where the panels are assembled.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Like a nonagenarian on a ventilator, the most significant arms-control treaty of the last half century quietly expired last week. Those who were responsible for keeping it alive—septuagenarians and octogenarians all—shrugged: ‘What’s to be done, it’s time had come.’ In the salacious excitement of the Epstein revelations of naughty A-lister names, the death of the most meaningful collective security agreement of our lifetime and what it implies barely merited headlines.

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