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Bajaj Auto and Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals will be in focus on Monday, January 8, when the market resumes trade as the boards of the companies will meet to consider and approve buyback of shares. Both Bajaj Auto and Chambal Fertilisers had informed about the meetings and buyback proposals on Wednesday, January 3. While Bajaj Auto's shares have gained 5% since the announcement, Chambal Fertilisers' share price has dropped by 3.4%. On Friday, shares of the two-wheeler stock settled at Rs 6,995.90 on the NSE, up 1.07%, while those of Chambal finished at Rs 373.20, down 3.48%.

“In the last so many years, PSU banks have been hammered and not been given fair value, so most of them are still trading at one-time book. I think still there could be a good enough upside from here,” says Rahul Shah, MOFSLEdited excerpts: We have major IT companies’ results next week. IT has been rather volatile, it has continued to decline for three straight weeks. But when we talk about Friday in particular, it is the top sectoral gainer as well. In light of these results, where do you see the IT sector headed? What do you think are these results going to look like? Nifty IT moved up around 25% in 2023. My sense is there are a lot of headwinds and this quarter, numbers also should be muted. Most of the companies as a sector will record muted earnings. Our channels check suggests that the spending on the IT companies has been less and no major order book has been there.

Infosys is expected to report a 9.5% year-on-year (YoY) decline in its December quarter net profit at Rs 5,960.10 crore, according to estimates by brokerage Elara Capital. On a sequential basis, a 4.1% contraction in the company's profit after tax (PAT) is seen. This is a sharp decline from the 13.7% YoY growth reported by the company in Q3FY23 PAT at Rs 6,586 crore.

healthcare startup CureBay has raised around Rs 62 crore in a funding round led by existing investor Elevar Equity. The funding round also saw participation from CureBay founders and some of the leadership team members.

Sobha jumped over 28% this week scaling a fresh 52-week high of Rs 1,343.35 in the process. Over the five trading sessions, the stock witnessed declines on two occasions as investors booked profit following strong upticks. On Friday, Sobha shares closed at Rs 1,269 on the NSE, down by Rs 26.25 2.03%. A ‘buy’ call by brokerage Motilal Oswal along with buying action in the realty stocks triggered a sharp rally in Sobha shares this week.

COVID-19 subvariant, known as JN.1, has emerged and is now the prevailing strain across Canada, prompting health experts to caution that it may be more infectious and could even have extra symptoms.Currently, the subvariant makes up the highest proportion of all COVID-19 variants, accounting for more than half (51. 9 per cent) of all infections in Canada, according to the latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).JN.1 was first detected in Canada on Oct. 9, and since then has rapidly increased.“If this virus continues to circulate at high levels, that means more virus, which means more mutations and more evolution, which means more of this same kind of issue happening repeatedly,” warned Ryan Gregory, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Guelph, and evolutionary biologist.On Dec.

Google Bard website that mentions Bard Advanced. The initial statement suggests, "Try Bard Advanced for 3 months, on us." A subsequent sentence elaborates, "Get more capable large language models with advanced math and reasoning skills with Bard Advanced for 3 months on us." Reportedly, the code snippets indicate that Bard Advanced will be presented through a three-month trial, implying that users may need to subscribe for continued access post the complimentary trial. The precise release date for the enhanced version of Bard remains uncertain, as the company initially declared an "early 2024" launch when announcing the service in December.

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Buy or sell stocks: Despite cautious sentiments in the global market, the Indian stock market ended higher for the second straight session on Friday. Nifty 50 index added 52 points and closed at the 21,710 level, and BSE Sensex regained the 72,000 mark by adding 178 points in the last session of the week gone by. However, the Bank Nifty index went off 36 points and finished at 48,159 level.

₹185 apiece level on the NSE at the end of March 2023 and since then it has remained an ideal 'buy on dips' stock for investors. In the last two months, Tata Power's share price has been touching new highs regularly and it has delivered over 80 per cent return to its long-term investors in the current fiscal. Speaking on triggers that are fueling Tata Power shares, Amit Goel, Co-Founder & Chief Global Strategist at Pace 360 said, "Shares of Tata Power Co Ltd have risen 46% since October end, bringing into spotlight what was till recently regarded as a defensive bet from the Tata Group.

Gold rate today: In the first week of the new year 2024, spot gold price remained at $2,010 to $2,080 per ounce whereas on Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), the precious yellow metal traded in ₹62,250 to ₹63,500 per 10 gm range. The gold futures contract for February 2024 expiry on MCX finished at ₹62,579 per 10 gm level, around ₹1,500 away from its lifetime high of ₹64,064 per 10 gm.

New Delhi: Union steel minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said India becoming a net importer of steel between April and November this fiscal year is not a concern for the government, terming the imports a drop in the ocean of total steel consumption in the country. “Indian steel production has gone up by 12.9% y-o-y (year-on-year). So, more steel is being produced, but the demand is also much more," he said.

Workplace expert Andy Challenger on why CEOs have left and how this has impacted companies

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has named Professor Fatma Ozkul, a prominent specialist in blockchain technology and crypto assets, to the position. This appointment was made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey. This appointment, which will take effect on December 23, 2023, represents a substantial integration of blockchain and cryptocurrency knowledge within the framework of the nation's monetary policy.

Sebi) on Friday reiterated its existing rules on short selling by including its 2007 circular on the subject in the master circular. Short selling involved selling a stock which the seller doesn’t own at the time of trade. Both retail and institutional investors are allowed to short sell securities. But rules do not allow naked short selling in Indian securities market.

The unemployment rate for Black Americans fell significantly in December, closing out 2023 on a positive note, according to data released Friday by the Department of Labor.

government on Friday said it will revamp the standard operating procedures for tunnel construction after an expert panel found many shortcomings in the under-construction Silkyara tunnel, which collapsed in November last year, leaving 41 workers stranded for more than two weeks. At a press briefing, Road Transport and Highways Secretary Anurag Jain said the Silkyara tunnel project in Uttarkashi is still workable, and the government will not abandon it. An experts' panel to investigate the collapse of a portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel has pointed out many shortcomings in the project, he added.

collateral damage in the Israel-Hamas conflict has been of devastation, and the multilateral institutions have failed to deliver what they were set up to do, felt noted international affairs experts at a forum organised recently. The forum was addressed by distinguished international law expert Dr. Robert Goldman and Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, India’s former envoy to Sweden and Kazakhstan. Dr. Eric Lob, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University; and Dr. Ziv Bohrer, Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law.

GST increase by the Finance Minister, that it has been hit with last year." Singh pointed out that this borderless industry, fueled by innovation, is facing an unlevel playing field for Indian companies, leading to closures, downsizing, and razor-thin profit margins. He highlighted the global scale of the Online Games industry, which is nearly three times the size of the combined worldwide Movie and Music industry.

In a recent twist of events, investors in Polygon (MATIC) find themselves contending with apprehensions amidst the altcoin encountering formidable resistance levels. As experts analyse the unfolding situation, a noticeable trend emerges— a considerable number of these investors are redirecting their attention towards an alternative token, Retik Finance. This shift is attributed to Retik Finance’s perceived potential for robust growth, a factor that is capturing the interest of a substantial portion of the investor community.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has limited retail investors’ investment in primary issuances of non-convertible debentures and commercial papers to a quarter of the total issuance to minimise investors’ losses in case of default on short­-term financial instruments. The latest directions have been issued by RBI’s master direction issued on January 3, 2024. Additionally, issuers of commercial papers (CPs) and non convertible debentures (NCDs) have to disclose information on any default in payments through various channels, including publicly disseminating such information through their website, per RBI’s revised master direction.