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PinkPantheress revealed her first album, 'Heaven Knows,' will be launched on November 10. This album encompasses two years of her work, featuring familiar tunes and guest appearances. In an Instagram post, PinkPantheress expressed her excitement for the upcoming release. She thanked her dedicated fan base and shared her appreciation for their support, emphasizing that they have been with her since the beginning. The announcement aligns closely with the two-year mark of her debut mixtape, 'To Hell With It,' which was released on October 15, 2021. She followed this with a remixes version on January 28, 2022. During this time, PinkPantheress, known for her eclectic blend of genres including bedroom pop, drum-n-bass, 2-step garage, '90s R&B, and more, gained significant popularity on TikTok. Her collaboration with Ice Spice, 'Boy's a Liar,' even reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. PinkPantheress acknowledged the uniqueness of her music in the internet space. She highlighted her desire to collaborate with other Black artists, who share a similar creative space.

Zuno General Insurance has introduced ‘Zuno Driving Quotient’, a unique driving score, accessible through the Zuno app, designed with a deep understanding of today’s mobile-savvy customer. Through this initiative, the Zuno app will utilize mobile sensor-based telematics to evaluate driving behaviour and assign a unique Driving Score, steering in a new era of road safety, the insurer said in a statement. 

Franklin Templeton India fund is turning to initial public offerings to help keep it in the top ranks of the nation’s mutual funds as rich valuations have made it hard to pick winners among small-cap stocks. The $1.2 billion Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund is up 34% this year, beating 98% of its peers. The fund’s IPO picks — Concord Biotech Ltd., TVS Supply Chain Solutions Ltd.

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan core machinery orders fell for a second straight month in August, suggesting worries about a global economic slowdown and China's wobbly recovery may be hurting companies' appetite to make fresh investments.

NEW DELHI : The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) continues to own shares worth at least ₹25,000 crore across 20 major Indian companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd, Infosys Ltd, Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Vedanta Ltd, despite escalating geopolitical tensions between the two nations over the past three years, company filings showed. Infosys and ICICI Bank are PBoC’s biggest portfolio holdings in India. The Chinese central bank owns 0.8% of Infosys, worth ₹4,678 crore, and 0.7% of ICICI Bank, worth ₹4,583 crore at current prices.

Emerging-market stocks just crossed another grim milestone: They’ve tumbled to the lowest level in 36 years relative to US equities.

Stock markets that have refused to buckle under the highest yields since 2007 face a new test. Third-quarter results will shine a light on how much those rates are already hitting profits — and what they’ll do to lofty equity valuations.

By Anirban Sen and David French

NEW DELHI : The Cotton Association of India (CAI) released its final estimate of crop production for the 2022- 23 (October-September) season and pegged it slightly higher at 31.8 million bales (1 bale=170 kg) from its previous estimate of 31.1 million bales in July, and initial estimates of 34.4 million bales. This is against the government’s third advance estimate of 34.3 million bales for the 2022-23 season and the 2021-22 season industry production estimate of 29.9 million bales.

Los Angeles Dodgers' reputation and the unfolding narrative of this year's National League Division Series. For the second consecutive game, the Dodgers, a team boasting 100 regular-season victories and a dominant summer performance, watched their starting pitcher stumble while their offense squandered scarce opportunities to compensate. Once again, they succumbed to the tenacious Arizona Diamondbacks, a team with 16 fewer regular-season wins, this time falling by a 4-2 margin.

Ratan Tata, 84, holds the distinction of being the most extensively followed entrepreneur on Indian social media, boasting 12.6 million X (formerly Twitter) followers, according to the Hurun India Rich List 2023. As per the report, following closely is Anand Mahindra, with a substantial following of 10.8 million followers. Hurun India and 360 ONE Wealth have jointly published the 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2023.

Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the Nobel economics prize for research that helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work and to earn less money when they do

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Rapidly rising Treasury yields have brought back fears of a potential wave of defaults across emerging markets, with investors questioning which countries struggling with heavy debt loads will miss payments or be forced to restructure first.

mutual funds has scaled a new high, as local fund managers increased their wagers on stocks to benefit from prices that have cooled off from record levels. The equity portfolio value of domestic funds rose to ₹27.90 lakh crore in September 2023, data from NSDL show, driven by increased investment by local funds that offset the impact of redemption by foreign funds (FPIs). Local funds invested more than ₹20,000 crore in equities last month, taking the three-month rolling cumulative investment by them to ₹59,715 crore — the highest in 14 months. It was the second month in a row when domestic funds invested more than ₹20,000 crore in equities. The equity portfolio value of local funds captures all equity-related investments of local funds in equity MF, balance funds, index funds and exchange-traded funds. Consistent expansion in their equity assets under management has increased the MF-FPI equity AUM ratio to 0.51, an all-time high. Cash holdings of local equity funds stood at 5% of their total AUM at the end of August 2023. Cash holdings of large MFs such as SBI MF, ICICI Prudential and HDFC MF were 7.4%, 6.9% and 7.2%, respectively, according to data compiled by Motilal Oswal.

India's coal imports declined 12.08 per cent to 18.26 million tonnes (MT) in August this year over the corresponding month of the previous fiscal. The country's import of fossil fuel stood at 20.77 MT in August last year. Overall coal imports during April to August also declined by 10.3 per cent to 103.93 MT, over 115.93 MT in the year-ago period, according to data compiled by mjunction services ltd.

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₹47.7 trillion in August, from ₹36.47 trillion the year earlier. Credit to the sector increased 17% to ₹47.70 trillion in August from ₹40.85 trillion in April, significantly surpassing last year’s 7% growth rate for the same period. Within this, credit card outstanding grew by 30% compared with 26% a year ago.

A changing of the guard is expected soon on Wall Street.

Treasuries are beginning to rival some of the most notorious market meltdowns in US history. Bonds maturing in 10 years or more have slumped 46% since peaking in March 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s just shy of the 49% plunge in US stocks in the aftermath of the dot-com bust at the turn of the century.

Global headwinds and expensive stock valuations necessitate a cautious approach toward Indian equities in the short term as the country prepares for next year’s national elections, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.