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Buy or sell stocks for today: On account of the US Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech later in the day, the Indian stock market remained choppy on the entire Wednesday session. The Nifty 50 index went off 18 points and closed at the 22,434 level, the BSE Sensex shed 27 points and ended at the 73,876 mark while the Bank Nifty index gained 78 points and finished at the 47,624 level.

Anna Morris and PDO Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Eric Van Nostrand are travelling to New Delhi and Mumbai from April 2-5 to meet with government and private sector counterparts, the Treasury said in a statement on Wednesday. «They will discuss key bilateral issues, including cooperation on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism, other illicit finance issues, and continued implementation of the price cap, which seeks to further limit the profits Russia receives to fund its illegal invasion while promoting stable global energy markets,» it said. Following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the G7 nations, the European Union, and Australia jointly implemented a price cap. This cap prohibits the utilisation of Western maritime services, including insurance, flagging, and transportation, for tankers transporting Russian oil priced at or above USD 60 per barrel.

dollar was pinned beneath recent peaks on Thursday with traders taking remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as reassuring on the likelihood of interest rate cuts this year while waiting for the latest U.S. labour market readout. An unexpected slowdown in U.S. services growth also supported cut expectations and weighed on the dollar, though for the year so far it remains the best-performing G10 currency as those expectations are far more modest than three months ago.

Paramount Global has entered exclusive talks with Skydance on a potential merger instead of a proposed $26 billion takeover offer from Apollo, US media reported Wednesday night. The negotiations mean entertainment giant Paramount will not speak with Apollo or other prospective acquirers for 30 days, while it aims for a transaction to be bought by Skydance, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources.

Equity markets traded in a narrow range with a negative bias on Wednesday as caution prevailed ahead of the RBI policy meeting and key macro data. «The US Fed Chair Powell's speech will be keenly watched. We expect the market to consolidate over the next few days until the events unfold,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal.

Apple services including its App Store, video and music streaming platforms Apple TV+ and Apple Music, were resolved after outages that affected users across multiple regions, the company's website showed. Issues were also reported on Apple's fitness service Apple Fitness+, as well as Arcade, Audiobooks, Books and Podcasts, according to Apple's system status pages for several countries reviewed by Reuters.

₹250 crore over the past three years for its international expansion, including its partnership with Williams. “We anticipate the international business will account for 25-35% of our total group revenues by the end of next year. This focus on international expansion is pivotal as we prepare for our IPO in October 2025." "This expansion is a key factor that will add significant interest for our IPO.

Good Glamm Group has formed a joint venture with former tennis player turned entrepreneur Serena Williams to launch her cosmetics brand 'Wyn Beauty by Serena Williams' in the US market. The entity, SW-Sanghvi Beauty USA Inc., which has board representation from both Williams’ team as well as the Mumbai-based The Good Glamm Group, owns Wyn Beauty and other related trademarks for the brand.

The film imagines a Civil War-like scenario which is impending upon the US and stars the very popular Kirsten Dunst as an agile journalist who is working on reports around a devastated and broken country, at the bring of another war. The story follows a three-term US President fighting off forces from California and Texas who are allies in the political spectrum, while the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is one of the biggest federal agencies of the US has been disbanded. Meanwhile, there are cases of drone strikes on American citizens, leading to heightened chaos. According to Hollywood Reporter, it is the President, played by Nick Offerman, who has ordered these drone strikes, in an attempt to become a three-term President.

PlayStation 5 are having a good time already this 2024 with some latest releases like the Rise of the Ronin which released last month on 22 March. Moreover, during the Game Awards 2023, there were multiple games announced and their trailers launched, showing that the time ahead for gaming fans is simply too bright. Sony PlayStation 5 is one of the most popular gaming consoles made yet. The recent launch of the PlayStation 5 'Slim' marks another milestone for Sony because of its advanced tech along with its state-of-the-art, sleek making. The games that are scheduled to launch for Sony PS5 in the coming days will compliment the superior capacity of this gaming console.

IPL 2024 fever coincided during a similar timeline, there were talks of shifting this cash-rich cricket franchise league to Dubai which was done under similar conditions during a previous national general elections. Interestingly, the auction for the IPL 2024 season was also held in Dubai's Coca Cola Arena where team owners bought some of the leading cricket players in the world currently. However, BCCI acknowledged the importance of the tournament being held and decided upon hosting all matches of the IPL 2024 in India itself. The IPL has entered its second month currently, with ten teams going head-to-head against each other to finish as the top four in the points table. The ten teams participating in IPL 2024 include Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Lucknow Super Giants, Gujarat Titans, Rajasthan Royals, Punjab Kings and more. Already some excellent matches have taken place with the most recent one being the clash between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals, which was won by KKR by a massive 106 runs. KKR posed a target of 273 runs to DC, and in response the latter was knocked out for a mere 166. The highest scorer of this match was West Indian all-rounder Sunil Narine who hit a fiery knock of 85 runs in just 39 balls. With this win, KKR is comfortably seated at the top of the points table followed by Rajasthan Royals who are behind on the basis of NRR.

Jeanne du Barry, starring Johnny Depp and Maïwenn, impressed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival and later in France. As it gears up for a US and Canadian release, a new trailer unveils the film's intricate narrative. Trailer

Bad economic ideas don’t die. Instead they just return a decade later to haunt another generation. That seems to be the situation with China’s steel industry.

Gold prices continue to rise for fourth straight session, silver surges to two-year high During the session, both contracts experienced an increase of over one dollar each before the U.S. Energy Information Administration disclosed a 3.2 million barrel rise in crude stocks.

The Federal Reserve chairman delivers the keynote address at a Stanford University forum.

Little Rhody Farms owner Eli Berkowitz says egg farmers are concerned that the bird flu 'hasn't gone away.'

earthquake off Taiwan's east coast on Wednesday is unfortunate. It is also an unfortunate reminder of the risk of concentrating an overwhelming proportion of the world's most advanced chip-making capacity in one territory. Taiwan's semiconductor fabrication units are located at some distance from the epicentre of the earthquake and evacuated staff in response to disaster protocols. Initial reports suggest there is unlikely to be an immediate impact on supply chains feeding all manner of things from cars and cellphones to laptops and satellites. However, chip-making is particularly susceptible to vibration, and Taiwan lies in a zone of heightened seismic activity that also poses a risk to its principal source of power: nuclear energy. Chipmakers have accelerated plans to diversify beyond Taiwan after the Covid outbreak snarled up supply lines. There is also simmering tension with China that reinforces the need for resilient supply of a critical component in global manufacturing.

Software Is Eating the World'. He convincingly argued that software-led companies like Apple, Amazon and Netflix were 'eating' brick-and-mortar companies, such as Blockbuster, Borders and Walmart, to become global category leaders. Andreessen's predictions did bear out, with software behemoths like Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta becoming the world's largest companies. As the age of IT and software gives way to AI, there are declarations of how AI is eating software. It seems that new emerging titans like OpenAI and their LLMs — which are built on colossal amounts of data and powered by new kinds of software algorithms called transformers — are taking over. However, it's actually hardware that is again emerging as the dominant species in the AI age. Nvidia, US-based MNC and maker of GPUs (graphics processing units), the hardware that powers most generative AI software, was at a $300 bn valuation in the pre-ChatGPT era in Nov 2022. It is $2.3 tn today, a nearly eight-fold jump.

Xi Jinping has told his US counterpart Joe Biden that the Taiwan question is the «first red line» that must not be crossed by Washington, and warned that Beijing will not «sit on its hands» if "Taiwan independence" forces step up their "separatist activities" with the help of external elements. Biden spoke on the phone with Xi on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the two leaders since their historic in-person summit last November in San Francisco and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two countries. The White House described the one-hour-45-minute conversation as «candid and constructive» on a range of issues on which the leaders agreed and disagreed. Biden stressed the need to maintain «peace and stability» across the Taiwan Strait and he also raised his concerns over China's support for Russia's defence industry, the White House said.

Manchester United will face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in London in a crucial premier league match on Thursday. Erstwhile champions, both Manchester United and Chelsea are struggling this season. While Red Devils have 48 points from 29 matches, Chelsea managed to garner 40 points off 28 games. Manchester United won two games in previous five EPL matches, Chelsea also won the same number of games in as many outings. Manchester United versus Chelsea premier league match is scheduled to kick off at 3.15 pm (ET) on Thursday, April 4.

Anti-smoking groups are suing the U.S. government over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been stalled at the White House for months