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08.12 / 02:05
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China locked onto Japanese military fighters. How that could impact rare earths.
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Military tensions are increasing between China and Japan. Investors should take note.
08.12 / 01:23
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Health-tech shines as India’s $283-billion IT sector battles slowing demand
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Health-tech providers have emerged as the only bright spot in India's $283-billion IT sector, with companies such as Sagility, Inventurus Knowledge Solutions (IKS) and Indegene recording steady growth despite a sluggish demand environment. Tier-1 information technology (IT) services providers, mid-caps, engineering research and development (ER&D) firms and health-tech companies reported an average sequential growth of 1.6%, 2.7%, 2.89%, and 4.2%, respectively, during the July-September quarter.
07.12 / 12:35
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Why Nvidia and other AI stocks have lost their ‘quality’ status
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Are the big AI companies giving up their status as the highest caliber stocks in the market? The question is at the heart of a debate about “quality" companies that has left two popular ETFs with wildly different performance after one ditched Nvidia and most of the rest of Big Tech. The $48 billion iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor (ticker: QUAL) and Invesco’s $15 billion S&P 500 Quality (SPHQ) specialize in what the investment industry has dubbed quality companies.
07.12 / 12:35
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Vijay L Bhambwani's Ticker: Santa Claus rally ahead?
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 bulls appeared to have an upper hand, read here.
07.12 / 12:35
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A small Minnesota town defends Somali residents as critical to the economy
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WILLMAR, Minn.—Nearly 30 years ago in this small agricultural town, resident Pablo Obregon did a double take at a group waiting for the bus downtown on the first day of school. They were Somali children.
07.12 / 10:05
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In firing a policy bazooka to support growth, India’s central bank may have overlooked the consequences for its mandate
“Baptism by fire,” is how D. Subbarao had described his initial months as the 22nd governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Subbarao took charge in September 2008 in the shadow of the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers that led to the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis and brought the world economy to its knees.
07.12 / 09:53
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Why are some countries uneasy about Narendra Modi’s bear hug for Vladimir Putin?
A mobility agreement allowing Indian blue-collar workers, such as those in construction, to seek employment in Russia.A naval training pact under which Russia will train Indian sailors for operations along the Arctic route. This is particularly significant, as the melting of Arctic ice opens up new shipping lanes.
06.12 / 09:27
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Keanu Reeves' incompetent angel elevates ‘Good Fortune’
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There’s something gloriously old fashioned about Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari’s wholesome buddy comedy that dares to believe in the redemptive power of kindness in an economy designed to chew people up and spit them out. The film is now available to rent on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.
06.12 / 04:15
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Neeraj Kanwar of Apollo Tyres: Always in motion
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In October, when the Indian cricket team walked on to the pitch in Ahmedabad during the Test series against West Indies with the Apollo Tyres logo on their shirts, it was a moment of intense pride for Neeraj Kanwar. “It’s not just a logo.
05.12 / 13:37
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Trump family-backed companies are being left behind as crypto recovers
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin and other digital assets are staging a recovery. Some crypto industry companies tied to President Donald Trump and his family aren’t keeping up.
05.12 / 05:15
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Add these four fundamentally strong stocks under ₹100 to your 2026 watch list
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Looking to invest in the stock market but don’t want to risk a big amount? Penny stocks, or shares priced under ₹100, often attract investors for this very reason. These lesser known and highly volatile stocks sometimes deliver outsized returns.
05.12 / 01:45
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Trump tightens work permits for migrants, expanding crackdown on legal immigration
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work permits issued to immigrants who have applied for asylum or a range of other humanitarian programs will now be valid for 18 months rather than five years, under a new policy announced Thursday by the Trump administration. By forcing immigrants to renew their work permits more often, the government will have more opportunities to re-vet them, said Joe Edlow, director of U.S.
05.12 / 01:45
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US steel to restart blast furnace at plant Trump pushed to preserve
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. U.S. Steel plans to resume steelmaking at an Illinois plant where the Trump administration intervened last summer to keep production going.
05.12 / 01:15
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Falling rupee should cheer exporters; so why is no one smiling?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian rupee's recent slide beyond the 90-per-dollar mark offers little relief to its exporters, most of which are struggling under the weight of crippling tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration. The only clear winners from the depreciation are the country's dominant information technology (IT) companies, while sectors with high import content grapple with surging production costs.
05.12 / 01:15
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Startups shake up IIT placements with high-skill AI roles and sky-high salaries, but in small numbers
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In this season’s race for top brains at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), artificial intelligence (AI) startups—both domestic and Silicon Valley-based—are pulling away from traditional recruiters, offering far higher compensation packages, plus bonuses and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
04.12 / 14:23
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Tata, Cyient and Applied Materials win ₹4,500 crore mandate to modernise India’s lone chip fab
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Two homegrown firms, including a Tata Group company, along with a US chip design major, have bagged a ₹4,500 crore project to enable India’s sole semiconductor fabrication plant, Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, to make more modern industrial chips used in critical sectors like power and energy. On Thursday, Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing Pvt.
04.12 / 08:35
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Affordability versus public goods: Why politics tends to put everyone on the losing side of this divide
It finally happened. Effective 13 November 2025, President Donald Trump of the United States of America exempted 225 agricultural items, fresh and processed, from tariffs termed ‘reciprocal’ but actually unilaterally country-specific. The new zero-tariff list is product-specific, not differentiated by country.
04.12 / 07:21
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Rupee depreciation set to benefit country’s $283 billion IT sector
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The rupee’s fall to a historic low against the US dollar on Wednesday has left one segment of companies cheering – India’s $283 billion information technology (IT) sector. The rupee plunged to 90.29 against the dollar before closing at 90.19, marking a fall of 5.4% since the start of the fiscal year.
04.12 / 03:37
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From Lush to Lululemon: Why global retailers are scrambling for Indian shoppers
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Global fashion and personal-care brands are scrambling to enter India, attracted by rising affluence and evolving consumer aspirations in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, even as demand cools in other key markets. Large international clothing labels such as COS, Bershka, Next, and G-Star Raw, and cosmetics brand Lush have entered the Indian market over the past year.
04.12 / 03:05
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The federal government is becoming an agent of AI chaos
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the behest of a handful of Silicon Valley executives, officials within the Trump administration and their allies in Congress are trying yet again to prohibit states from regulating AI companies. Even as House members heard about the horrific impact of AI chatbots on children, its GOP leadership tried to insert federal pre-emption of state AI laws into the unrelated National Defense Authorization Act.
04.12 / 03:05
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Putin’s India visit comes amid US tariffs and oil sanctions—what’s at stake for New Delhi
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a two-day visit to India on 4 December for the annual India-Russia Summit—his first trip to New Delhi since the start of the Ukraine war. The visit comes at a particularly sensitive moment for India’s foreign policy and energy security.
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