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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. American automakers want to boost their profits by selling high-margin gas guzzlers today, all while not falling behind on electric-vehicle technology. It will be difficult to do both.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Selling pressure on the rally continues to keep a check on market conditions, as the lack of clarity continues to push the market lower with every rally. With the trends continuing to blow hot and cold, we need to now ascertain that the market is demanding us to have a hybrid approach.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Walmart-controlled Flipkart received a key approval to shift its domicile back to India, a prerequisite for a local listing, in a move that reflects a shift in India-US economic ties amid prolonged bilateral trade negotiations. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the re-domiciling scheme on Friday, according to an order reviewed by Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The U.S. government has tried to address the long decline in stock-exchange listings by relaxing the rules for small public companies.

Even though the year has not yet ended, some clear but peculiar patterns have emerged from stock-market returns. Here are the facts for the US stock market this year. With all indices hitting respective highs, the Nasdaq Composite (up 22.5%) has so far beaten the S&P 500 (18.5%) and Dow Jones 30 (13.0%).

Most of the world has shown clarity in its response to America’s new National Security Strategy. Russia loves it, liberal Europeans are dismayed and the Gulf monarchies overjoyed.In the rest of Asia — and what, until now, Washington has called the Indo-Pacific—the dominant emotion is uneasiness. There are words, phrases and entire sections in the document that are exactly what we want to hear.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The rupee slipping past the ₹90 mark against the US dollar may sound like a problem mainly for travellers heading to the United States. But the reality is broader—and more expensive.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump’s top envoys launched two days of meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Sunday as the administration stepped up pressure on Kyiv to put aside its resistance and agree to a peace deal with Russia by year-end. The talks between Ukraine and its Western partners have become a tug of war, even without Russia at the table.

America’s greatness, or at least the White House version of it, gets costlier for others by the day. The blow taken by India’s auto exports to Mexico, whose tariffs are set to more than double next year, could also be ascribed to that project.When Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled her plan to raise barriers in September, a shield for local industry was the stated aim, but her real anxiety was clearly a review of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) due in 2026.Recall how US President Donald Trump rattled Mexico and Canada with threats within days of taking office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian benchmark indices closed Friday's session on a positive note, extending gains from the previous day, primarily driven by a positive global sentiment following the US Federal Reserve's rate cut. Nifty 50 closed decisively above the psychologically important 26,000 mark at 26,046.95, up 148.40 (0.57%), while Sensex advanced 449.53 points (0.53%) to settle at 85,267.66.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Oil companies must ramp up investment in exploration and production to meet future demand, Prasanna V. Joshi, a senior ExxonMobil executive, said, while cautioning that output increases by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) could lead to a near-term glut.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The $901 billion defense-policy bill passed by the House would codify more than a dozen of President Trump’s executive orders, authorizing major weapons programs, troop deployments and international-security assistance. The Senate is expected to take it up in the week ahead.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right. Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ticker is a weekly newsletter by Vijay L Bhambwani. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Dear reader, Last week, I wrote that a weakening rupee was casting a shadow on bullish sentiments.

Renewed hostilities between Thailand and Cambodia are a wake-up call for Southeast Asia about the costs of letting historical border disputes fester. The century-old conflict, rooted in colonial-era cartography, is flaring at a time when the region is already straining from US President Donald Trump’s trade war and intensifying rivalry between the US and China.Fighting erupted last week along their shared frontier and so far has killed at least 11 people.

Mint’s Annual BFSI Conclave 2025 on Friday, flagged risks associated particularly with stablecoins, considered as the more sensible, utility-driven corner of the crypto universe.Mint takes a look at this growing asset class, and what it may mean for India’s financial system.Stablecoins are a category of cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a stable value, usually by pegging them to relatively secure assets such as fiat currencies, commodities, or other financial assets. First appearing in the mid-2010s, they were created to combine the efficiency of blockchain-based payments with the price stability needed for routine financial use.The most widely used stablecoins are backed by the US dollar.

In a Netflix documentary that celebrates one hundred years of The New Yorker magazine, its staff writer Andrew Marantz says that he has often been in places where people would say “All you elite [expletive], you don’t know the first thing” about America. It is the kind of magazine, he says, that would faithfully quote that expletive, but place an accent on the first ‘e’ of elite, thereby confirming at least one part of the abuse.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON : President Trump conveyed uncertainty about whether Republicans would maintain control of the House in next year’s midterm elections because some of his economic policies have yet to take full effect. During an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday in the Oval Office, the president touted his efforts to secure multibillion-dollar investments in the U.S., arguing that the money will help transform the American economy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The extraordinary rally in US technology stocks over the past few years, especially those linked to artificial intelligence, has left investors wondering whether they are witnessing the formation of another classic market bubble. For Indian investors, the concern is sharper because most international exposure from the country is concentrated overwhelmingly in US equities, particularly Nasdaq-heavy funds.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 5 December, Netflix signed an agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) studio and streaming businesses for an enterprise value of $82.7 billion.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Historically, for the people of Kashmir, there is only one shahr or city, writes Sameer Hamdani in his new book City of Kashmir—Srinagar: A Popular History. Depending on which part of Kashmir you are in, you are either going up (khasun) or down (vasun) to Srinagar. The common inclination is to look at Srinagar through the prism of militancy, violence and stone-pelting—like a fault line, there’s a clear demarcation between before and after 1990’s Srinagar.