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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Friday the Islamic Republic won’t back down in the face of fast-growing protests and threats from President Trump to intervene. New protests have been called for Friday, a day after the largest demonstrations in years swept through Tehran.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. So much for a quiet first week of the new year. President Donald Trump is looking to micromanage various sectors of the market, but his pick for Federal Reserve chair remains the most important economic intervention the president can make.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If trade deficits are a national emergency, they are an emergency of a peculiar sort. America began to run them consistently in the mid-1970s.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s enchantment with Venezuelan oil is a century-long tale of fortunes made and lost, starting with a 1922 letter to President Warren Harding’s secretary of state and culminating with President Trump’s move to wrest control of the country’s oil wealth. U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Oil isn’t the only commodity to drive President Donald Trump’s decision to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The nation’s critical minerals shouldn’t be overlooked as a potential motive for regime change.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared in 2011 that “software is eating the world." This year, Silicon Valley will be looking to feast on artificial intelligence, as the relentless hype that’s driven the creation of nearly 40,000 AI startups crashes into the cold logic of business economics. US companies spent $37 billion on generative AI software in 2025, up from $11.5 billion the year before, according to venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You know Iran’s leaders are worried about the implications of last weekend’s US raid in Venezuela when the editor of the hardline Javan newspaper feels he has to write a polemic, headlined Iran Is Not Comparable—Don’t Waste Your Time, saying there aren’t any.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—A smooth-faced 41-year-old Donald Trump settled in before a live studio audience assembled for The Oprah Winfrey Show and held forth on how America should be getting a cut of Kuwaiti oil. “Kuwait is not paying us for all the oil they’re sending out," said Trump, wearing a familiar solid red tie, as Oprah pressed him on his foreign policy views during the April 1988 interview.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of more than five dozen global organizations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Venezuela’s regime said it would release political prisoners as it looked to appease the Trump administration less than a week after U.S. commandos captured the country’s former leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tensions mounted in Venezuela following recent US military strikes on Caracas and the capture of its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. According to a PTI report, a possible US-backed restructuring of Venezuela’s oil industry could deliver a meaningful financial and strategic gain for India, including recovery of nearly US$1 bn in long-pending dues and a restart of crude production from fields involving Indian companies.

Mint explains why oil prices have remained range-bound and what it means for India.Oil prices are back to where they were before the US action in Venezuela. On 3 January, US forces attacked the Venezuelan capital Caracas and captured President Mudaro. When the markets opened on 5 January, the benchmark Brent Crude saw a marginal spike to $62.56 a barrel.

rupee stood at about 10 to the dollar. From then to now, the average annual depreciation works out to roughly 4.5%. At independence, when the rupee was on a par with the dollar, the long-term annual depreciation is closer to 6%.The faster pace in earlier decades is largely a matter of arithmetic.

₹70 to a dollar. Today, it’s significantly higher.

The unfolding crisis in Venezuela draws into sharp relief a less-recognized feature of the modern global economy: the movement of expectations often matters more than that of physical goods. Venezuela has long been a distant yet symbolically important pillar of India’s energy security framework.

Why it’s recommended: Strong digital engineering and cloud-led revenue mix, consistent earnings growth with healthy margins, rising deal wins, and an improving order pipeline, strong client diversification across industries and geographies, and a healthy balance sheet with low debt levels.Key metrics: P/E: 64.91 | 52-week high: ₹6,599 | Volume: ₹409.23 croreTechnical analysis: Cup-with-handle breakoutRisk factors: Dependence on global IT spending cycles, pricing pressure from large IT peers and niche players, client concentration risk in key accounts, talent attrition and wage inflation impacting margins, and currency volatility affecting overseas revenues.Buy: ₹6,420-6,480Target price: ₹7,100 in two to three monthsStop loss: ₹6,100Why it’s recommended: Strong presence in chronic therapy segments, consistent earnings and cash flow generation, improving India formulations growth, a healthy product pipeline with regular launches, and a stable balance sheet with manageable debt.Key metrics: P/E: 65.98 | 52-week high: ₹4,104.80 | Volume: ₹361.85 croreTechnical analysis: Flat base breakoutRisk factors: Pricing pressure in the U.S. generics market, regulatory risks from the US FDA inspections, dependence on key molecules and markets, rising input and compliance costs, and currency volatility impacting margins.Buy at: ₹4,070-4,100Target price: ₹4,600 in two to three monthsStop loss: ₹3,820Indian equities ended marginally lower on Tuesday after a volatile session, with Nifty 50 slipping 0.14% to close at 26,140.75.

New Delhi: Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) plans to launch its initial public offering by the end of 2026, according to its top executive.The IPO would largely be an offer for sale (OFS) for 22% stake by promoter Indian Energy Exchange Ltd, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Rajesh Mediratta told reporters on Wednesday. “The merchant bankers are yet to be appointed for the sale process.”IEX currently holds 47% and NSE owns 26% of IGX, while other minority shareholders include GAIL India Ltd, Oil and Natural Gas Corp.

₹12 lakh, increasing disposable incomes at the hand of consumers.On the monetary policy front, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has delivered a massive 125 basis points (bps) reduction in interest rates over the past 12 months, which is expected to boost liquidity in the market through higher spending in rate-sensitive segments, such as banking, real estate and consumer durables.“Policy measures implemented during the year, including tax and interest rate reductions, are beginning to yield positive results, which are expected to translate into stronger earnings growth for domestic economy-oriented sectors in 2026,” Yogesh Patil, chief investment officer, equity, LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management (LIC MF), told Mint. The strength of India’s macroeconomic fundamentals, coupled with the expected benefits of recent policy moves, has made this optimism the near-consensus view on the Street.“We expect festive demand momentum in Q3 results to bring calm to the market as we enter 2026.

Data-centre investments hint at a shift in the AI race. Soon, reliable and affordable electricity will confer a decisive advantage in this sector.

Shares of Indian oil companies have been volatile over the past three days, after the US removed the president of Venezuela through a military intervention over the weekend. While Indian state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corp.

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