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Investing.com-- Gold prices fell in Asian trade on Monday, losing a key support level as traders turned averse to non-yielding assets before more signals on interest rates from a Federal Reserve meeting later in the week.

Investing.com-- Most Asian stocks were on Monday as caution prevailed before a barrage of key central bank meetings this week, most notably from the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. 

Investing.com-- U.S. stock index futures moved little in evening deals on Sunday, with caution ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting dissuading big trades, while AI darling Nvidia Corp 's annual developer conference also came into focus.

Russian Presidential Elections 2024: President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide with 87.8% of the vote in Russia's election on Sunday. He made it clear that the result should send a message to the West that its leaders will have to reckon with an emboldened Russia, whether in war or peace, for many more years to come.

government's dividend mopup from non-financial central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) and entities in which it holds minority stakes has touched a record ₹61,149 crore, 22% higher than the revised estimate for 2023-24, with almost a fortnight to go this fiscal, according to the latest finance ministry data. Dividend receipts in the first half of March alone totalled nearly ₹10,000 crore. The revised estimate in the interim budget last month estimated the dividend collection for 2023-24 at ₹50,000 crore, higher than initial target of ₹43,000 crore. «The dividend collection has surpassed all expectations this fiscal. CPSEs across sectors have been performing well, and the strong dividend flow is the clearest sign of that,» said an official, who did not wish to be identified. «Also, global crude oil prices didn't quite surge as was feared after the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. So, the profitability of oil companies didn't quite take a beating, which augurs well for dividend flow. Power sector companies, too, have been doing well.»

Dividend paying stock: Shares of Oil India Ltd, Tierra Agrotech Ltd, and Tine Agro Ltd will be in focus when the stock market opens on March 18 (Monday). The Board of Directors of the 3 companies have declared interim dividend, rights issue, bonus issue, and stock split for their eligible shareholders. The record date by the 3 companies to ascertain the eligibility of shareholders for their respective issues has been fixed on March 18.

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inflation has slowed sharply, petrol prices are down, jobs are plentiful, incomes are rising and the stockmarket is strong. But survey after survey suggests that Americans are in fact quite unhappy. They think that the economy is in bad shape and that President Joe Biden is mismanaging it.

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Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi has said that public sector banks have been asked to check mis-selling of insurance products and ensure protection of account holders' interest. Banks have been sensitised on the matter, as the Department of Financial Services (DFS) regularly gets complaints that fraudulent and unethical practices are being adopted by banks and life insurance companies for procuring policies from the bank customers, he told PTI in an interview. «Banks have been asked to give utmost importance to the interest of account holders,» he said. There have been instances where life insurance policies were sold to customers aged above 75 years in tier-II and III cities.

New York Post quoted a source as saying. “A few of Kate's senior staffers haven't been able to see or speak to her, and they didn't even know about the surgery until it was announced, so it's caught them off guard," Us Weekly quoted a source as saying.

Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear for questioning on March 21 in the excise policy linked money laundering case, official sources said Sunday. The 55-year-old national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been asked to depose at the central agency's office in central Delhi. The ninth summons have been issued so that Kejriwal's statement can be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said.

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Bankruptcy is a dreaded word. Among several things, it directly impacts your credit score, and that too significantly, and for a long time. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched «Modi Ki Guarantee» as the central theme of his campaign, focusing on the development of youth, empowerment of women, and welfare of farmers and marginalized communities. Meanwhile, the Congress is banking on its 'Nyay' guarantees, aiming at justice for various sections of society. Unemployment, Price Rise, and Ideological Battles Key issues such as unemployment, rising prices, and ideological clashes between parties are likely to dominate the election discourse. The BJP will highlight its achievements in implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and the abrogation of Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir, while the opposition criticizes these moves as divisive and imposing uniformity.

Nifty ended with weekly declines of 2.1% amid massive selling in state-owned company stocks along with energy, realty and financial stocks. However, the IT pack ended with weekly gains. When markets resume trading on Monday, a host of important domestic and global events lined-up during the holiday-truncated week are likely to impact them. «The upcoming week will place a significant focus on monetary policy, as the Fed will begin its two-day policy meeting on March 19. The US Federal Reserve (FED) will announce its interest rate decision after its two-day policy meeting on March 20, 2024. According to reports, the US Federal Reserve will leave its benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged,» Pravesh Gour, Senior Technical Analyst at Swastika Investmart said.

Opposition volleys over the publication of date on polling funding through electoral bonds on the official portal of the Election Commission (EC), expelled Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Saturday asked if the rival parties were suggesting that all the 1,300 firms that made donations via electoral bonds were 'thieves'. Speaking to on Saturday, Acharya Krishnam, who has been taking regular potshots at the Congress since being expelled for 'anti-party activities', said, «All political parties across the world receive donations. Are they (Opposition) suggesting that the 1,300 companies that made political donations through these electoral bonds, the money from which went into nation-building, are thieves? Are they robbers? The money they have donated is now on record. It is in the public domain. Casting aspersions on the contributions that are on record shows the dirty mindset of the Opposition.» Coming down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who claimed earlier that the BJP was running the «biggest extortion in the world» through the Electoral Bond Scheme, the expelled leader added, «The entire Opposition has started speaking in Rahul-ji's language. This is most unfortunate.»

direct tax collections, which may now surpass the upwardly revised target of Rs 19.45 lakh crore by the end of this fiscal, people aware of the matter told ET. Net direct tax collections from April 1, 2023, to March 15, 2024, stood at Rs 18.95 lakh crore, up 14.05% year on year, buoyed by advance tax collections of Rs 9.10 lakh crore, officials said. So far, corporates have paid Rs 6.72 lakh crore in advance tax while individuals accounted for Rs 2.37 lakh crore.

The government had announced the price cut with effect from March 15, a day before general election dates were announced. “Although small on headline, a Rs 2 per litre cut will reduce OMC revenue/ ebitda by about Rs 30,000 crore ($3.7bn) annualised,” JP Morgan said in March 15 report, adding that “the latest data suggests Russian crude discounts have fallen further. Put together, these should remove the current super-normal profitability at the three companies.”

It is that time of the year when the crypto markets experience a complete shakedown as a result of Bitcoin’s price surge. However, among other exciting projects, a meme coin is holding the markets’ reins for the first time. That meme coin is the new and hyped-up BEFE coin. Some are calling this fresh new entry the crypto king due to its newsworthy rally record by major crypto tracking websites such as CoinMarketCap. The most impressive part of being an early BEFE coin is that its performance has been remarkable since day 1. Even though there have been a few ups and downs along the way, that does not hinder its growing presence in the market.

17th Lok Sabha, the Left parties, part of the opposition INDIA bloc, are engaged in a do-or-die battle in this general elections after hitting an all-time low tally in the 2019 polls. The Left parties, prominent among which are the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc, have witnessed a steep decline in their electoral performance over the last two decades. For the CPI(M), its status as a national party is also at stake with its shrinking footprints. Here is a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of the Left parties as they fight to hold ground in the Lok Sabha polls.