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Lightspeed Faction, a blockchain-focused venture capital (VC) firm, has revealed plans to launch a new $285 million fund aimed at investing in early-stage projects within the crypto industry.

Pakistan vs England, ICC World Cup 2023: Babar Azam-led Pakistan cricket team will face England in their last league stage match at Eden Gardens International Cricket Stadium, Kolkata. Theoretically, it's a ‘do or die’ match for Pakistan, but practically it is likely to be the last match for the team as they need something implausible against the defending champions to even think about the semi-finals. Skipper Babar Azam addressed a press conference before the match where he sounded optimistic and also took a dig at fans and experts back home.

Annual private capital mobilisation by multilateral development banks needs to quadruple to $240 billion by 2030, co-chair of the Independent Expert Group of MDB reforms set up under India’s G20 presidency N K Singh said, while cautioning against a piecemeal approach to reform of these institutions. Speaking at the Paris Peace Forum at a session on “Achievements since the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact”, moderated by French President Emmanuel Macron, Singh asserted that MDBs required a tectonic makeover. “The next 12 months are crucial to translate the current fervour into changes in process, procedures, and hopefully changes for better outcomes…. I worry about a piecemeal approach to reforms, and institutions acting in silos,” Singh said, adding that a change is needed in the management culture on many fronts. The first volume, submitted to the G20 in July at Gandhinagar, had recommended enhancing their sustainable level of own-account non-concessional finance to $300 billion annually. The second volume handed before the Marrakech G20 ministerial has suggested introducing new instruments – pooled portfolio guarantees and hybrid capital — and inclusion of new investors into the MDB capital stack, as part of steps to diversify the sources of capital.

Reliance Industries has raised Rs 20,000 crore in the largest bond issue by a non-financial Indian firm, paying 7.79 per cent interest rate, the company said on Friday. The coupon rate is 40 basis points more than the government's borrowing cost.

Refinitiv after a glitch on the electronic trading platform caused trading volumes in the foreign exchange market to dry up, causing volatility in the rupee, which marked new lows versus the US dollar on Friday. Market sources told ET that the trading outage, which occurred around mid-day, resulted in orders drying up, exacerbating volatility in the rupee’s exchange rate amid a global selloff in stocks and bonds due to hawkish comments by the US Federal Reserve chairman. The rupee closed at an all-time low of 83.34 per US dollar on Friday. Intraday, the rupee weakened to as much as 83.48/$1, also a fresh low.

EID Parry(up 2.36%), BAJAJHIND(up 2.21%), Simbhaoli Sugars(up 1.79%), Shree Renuka Sugars(up 1.31%), K.M.Sugar Mills(up 1.24%), Uttam Sugar Mills(up 1.20%), Mawana Sugars(up 1.17%), Balrampur Chini Mills(up 1.13%), MAGADHSUGAR(up 0.91%) and Bannari Amman Sugars(up 0.82%) stood among the top gainers. Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries(down 2.79%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries(down 2.27%), Triveni Engineering & Industries(down 1.41%), Sakthi Sugars(down 1.27%), DCM Shriram Industries(down 1.08%), Ugar Sugar Works(down 0.78%), Rana Sugars(down 0.57%), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries(down 0.22%), AVADHSUGAR(down 0.10%) and Kothari Sugars & Chemicals(down 0.09%) were among the top losers of the day.

Coal India on Friday reported a 12.5% year-on-year (YoY) rise in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September 2023 to Rs 6,800 crore, which was way above an ETNow poll of Rs 5,990 crore. Consolidated revenue from operations rose nearly 10% on year to Rs 32,776.41 crore and was also above the estimated Rs 31,838 crore. The board has recommended an interim dividend of Rs 15.25 a share for the current financial year.

Shares of Federal Bank Ltd.(up 1.55 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 1.25 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 0.95 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.82 per cent) and Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.71 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.56 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

asteroid about as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will streak through space within 20,000 miles (32,200 km) of Earth, the closest any celestial object of that size will have come to our planet in modern history. When it does, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 2016 is expected to be in position to provide a detailed examination of this rare close encounter. The mission, directed by University of Arizona scientists, is expected to yield insights into planetary formation and knowledge that could inform efforts to build a defense system against possible doomsday asteroid collisions with Earth. At the time of its 2004 discovery, the asteroid Apophis, named for a demon serpent embodying evil and chaos in ancient Egyptian mythology, appeared to pose a dire impact threat to Earth, with scientists forecasting a potential collision in 2029.

Benchmark NSE Nifty closed 30.05 points up at 19425.35 amid buying in frontline bluechip counters. However, stocks such as M K Proteins, Hindcon Chemicals, Compuage Infocom, AKG Exim Ltd.

Shares of DLF Ltd.(up 0.89 per cent), Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(up 0.78 per cent), Macrotech Developers Ltd.(up 0.55 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(up 0.54 per cent) and Godrej Properties Ltd.(up 0.13 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, Phoenix Mills Ltd.(down 1.64 per cent), Sobha Ltd.(down 0.72 per cent), Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.(down 0.42 per cent) and Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd.(down 0.37 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

Shares of Ashok Leyland Ltd.(up 1.99 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 1.38 per cent), Bharat Forge Ltd.(up 0.73 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 0.26 per cent) and MRF Ltd.(up 0.2 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.16 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.8 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 1.77 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.9 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.68 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

Brigade Group reported a significant jump in net profit and sales for the second quarter of FY24, with all business segments seeing high growth. The company’s reported total revenue of Rs 1,408 crore, a 54% jump in the second quarter of FY24 as compared to the same period last year, while the net profit more than double at Rs 134 crore in Q2 FY24. The company’s new bookings in the real estate segment in Q2 FY 24 is 1.67 mn sft valued at Ra 1,249 crore. The collections for Q2 FY24 stood at Rs 1,439 crore, an increase of 15%. «All business verticals contributed significantly to the growth of the company in Q2 of FY24.

ESAF Small Finance Bank debuted with a premium listing of nearly 20% on Friday. The listing was in line with expectations, following a strong response to the IPO. The public offer was subscribed by a massive 73 times at close on strong demand from institutional investors.

The NSE Nifty index closed 30.05 points up at 19425.35, while BSE Sensex ended up 72.48 points at 64904.68. On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.16 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.80 per cent), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 0.95 per cent), Titan Company Ltd.(down 0.83 per cent) and Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 0.65 per cent) were among the top losers of the day.

Insurance. The survey also shed light upon the financial habits of the population of this age group. It was found that more than 50% of millennials say they need expert financial advice to achieve their life goals.

Having established itself as a leading full-stack real estate service provider during its 17-year-long journey, Magicbricks has now set its sights on expanding the home loan segment. The company is poised to collaborate with more financial institutions and digitize the entire home loan process in a bid to establish one of the largest home lending channel partner networks in the country.

Multibagger IPO: Money is not in buying and selling of stocks but in wait. This age old investment theroy holds well on initial public offering (IPO) as well. When a person applies for an IPO, its objective can be classifide into two types — listing gain, long term gains along with listing premium.

BSE Sensex surpassed 67,900. While going ahead, experts expect volatility in the near term, they have an overall positive outlook for the Indian equity market, especially in the long term.

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Bank of India (RBI) with a sense of assurance, enabling them to maintain interest rates at a stable level over the coming months, as suggested by experts. According to a Mint poll of 17 economists, India’s retail inflation likely cooled to 4.8 per cent in October from 5 per cent in September. However, economists warned that vegetable prices still pose an upside risk to their forecasts.