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VF Corporation (NYSE:VFC) was cut to Neutral from Overweight at Piper Sandler on Monday, with analysts lowering the price target for the stock to $20 from $28 per share.

Stock-market strategists who were largely wrong about this year’s rally are finally starting to come to face their mistake, raising year-end targets for the S&P 500 Index.

Wealth Management titled "Navigator". According to the study, gold is presently trading at US$ 1960 and has fluctuated between US$ 1880 and US$ 1960 over the past month. Gold ETFs witnessed outflows over the previous two months, but in recent weeks, a small amount of inflows have started to trickle in, which has aided the price of the yellow metal, said Emkay Wealth in its report.The direction of the US Dollar and the trajectory of US interest rates are two fundamental variables that are intricately linked to the movement in gold.

Also Read: Several Mumbai-Gujarat trains cancelled due to heavy rainfall. Check details here The Narmada and other rivers are flowing at full capacity. As a response to the situation, 9,600 individuals were relocated to safer locations, and 207 others were rescued across five districts.

Ukraine and its visiting president take center stage at the United Nations this week, but developing countries will be vying for the spotlight as well as they push for faster action on poverty and inequality at the first full-on meeting of world leaders since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted travel three years ago. The annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly takes place at a polarizing and divisive juncture in history — the most fraught and dangerous since the Cold War, according to many analysts and diplomats. They point to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which upended already difficult relations among major powers as well as the ongoing impact of the pandemic, high food prices, the worsening climate emergency, escalating conflicts, and the world's failure to tackle poverty, hunger and gender inequality. For developing countries, the top priority is the U.N.'s two-day summit starting Monday aimed at generating action by world leaders to achieve 17 wide-ranging and badly lagging global goals by 2030.

retail sales remain strong, and the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady this week. For investors with money on the line, the gloom on Wall Street creates a dilemma.

Using volatility for wealth creation: Businesses do not function in a linear manner and often go through execution challenges because of multiple external factors. Resultantly, their underlying stock prices also go through various swings during this journey.

CreditAccess Grameen Ltd is seeking to diversify its asset base by increasing the share of its non-microfinance book through housing, unsecured business and gold loans. After being elevated as chief executive officer in August, Ganesh Narayanan is looking to raise the share of non-microfinance loans from the current 1% to 12-14% in 4-5 years. The lender will also look to increase its share in housing loans by adopting a co-lending model to tie up with banks.

Jo Google kar sakta hai, wah tera bhagwan nahin kar sakta (What Google can do, your God cannot), whose video went viral on the internet. Parents of some students of the school staged demonstrations before the institution terming the play as an affront to sanatan dharma. They said the teacher who wrote the play belonged to a different faith and had purposely insulted their religion.

Heavy rain lashed several parts of Gujarat on Sunday, flooding low-lying areas and cutting off several villages as Narmada and other rivers are in full spate, prompting shifting of hundreds of people to safer places, officials said. Several areas in Ahmedabad were waterlogged after the city received 76 mm of rainfall in 12 hours ending at 6 pm on Sunday, throwing the normal life out of gear.

Elon Musk, the owner of micro blogging site ‘X’ (former Twitter) has issued a whip for ‘X Corp’ employees with regards to ‘free speech’ on the social media platform. Elon Musk requoted a tweet by X News Daily, which quoted German prosecutors saying, “X is complying with more German requests compared to pre-acquisition when it comes to identifying users in Hate speech cases".

FIDE World Junior Chess Championship with some of the players yet to get their visas to travel to Mexico city for the prestigious tournament beginning on Wednesday. According to sources, the players are scheduled to leave for the Mexican capital on Monday, and the delay has resulted in a lack of clarity and uncertainty regarding their participation in the global event. Speaking to PTI, FIDE Advisory Board Chairman Bharat Singh Chauhan said, «Despite all the best effort and clearance from the Indian government, we are yet to receive the clearance from the Mexican embassy, which has resulted in the delay of visas being issued. »Tomorrow (Monday), the players are scheduled to leave, and the matter has been kept hanging till the last day, with no clarity if the visas would indeed be issued on time." According to the data sheet in possession of PTI, five of the Indian players, who are being funded by the Government of India, are yet to receive their visas. The players affected are Vrashank Chouhan, Arun Kataria, Bhagyashree Patil, Prraneeth Vuppala and Femil Chelladurai, along with coaches Pravind Thipsay M and Kiran Agrawal. «It is extremely frustrating since all the Indian players are looking forward to participating in the tournament, while the contingent is also one of the strong favourites to come out on top,» Chauhan said. «The competition is being organised by Mexico's chess federation with the approval of the Mexican government, and it should be their responsibility to ensure that the embassy gives all the necessary clearance to issue the visa on time. »The Indian authorities have done their part, and it's all up to them (Mexican authorities) now.

The United States is at risk of another damaging government shutdown, potentially as soon as the end of September

The government has decided to increase private participation in mining with the goal of attracting technology and capital to the sector. It made amendments to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 during the recently concluded monsoon session of Parliament to allow the private sector to participate in the exploration and mining of critical resources such as lithium. Mint looks at how the changes could affect the sector.

The Indian Meteorological Department, on Friday, predicted heavy rainfall in parts of Maharashtra on Sunday. Other than Maharashtra, the IMD issue a rainfall alert for parts of southwest Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat region for Sunday. “West Madhya Pradesh is on red alert as it expects isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall, including extremely heavy downpours (exceeding 204.4 mm), from September 15th to 17th.

NASA. The scorching heat waves experienced in North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions are attributed to human-induced global warming, compounded by the recurring climate phenomenon known as El Niño. NASA's analysis reveals that August 2023 was exceptionally hot, with temperatures 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above the average for summer. This extreme heatwave affected a staggering 57 million people in the southern and southwestern United States, reaching the highest category of severity. When considering the combined temperatures for June, July, and August, they were 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit (0.23 degrees Celsius) warmer than all previous summers. This alarming increase underscores the growing impact of global warming on the climate. In fact, NASA scientists confirmed that July 2023 was the hottest July on record, with the last five hottest Julys occurring within the past five years.

rain after the next two weeks, when his paddy will be ready. Any untimely rain will spell disaster for his crop.

Congress' top decision-making body's resolution comes at a time when Marathas are agitating for reservations in Maharashtra and other communities also raise the demand for reservations time and again and owing to the sensitive nature of the issue, it sometimes even leads to violence. During the press conference after the CWC meeting, the senior Congress leaders accused the government of complete failure on political, economic, and national security fronts. The leaders claimed that under the BJP regime, there is a challenge to India's constitutional, and federal structure of India.

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rise of AI, the people said. To that end, Sunak and his top political aides have been focused on crafting bolder policy proposals to roll out in the coming weeks, designed to present a forward-looking vision for voters. The hope is that the strategy will reinforce a common criticism of Starmer, that he’s cautious and uninspiring, and chip away at Labour’s roughly 20-point lead in the polls.

weather forecast, IMD has issued a red alert for districts like Indore, Jhabua, Dhar, Khargone, etc till 17 September. -Orange alert has been issued for Ujjain, Khandwa, Ratlam, and Burhanpur. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in parts of west Madhya Pradesh till Sunday.