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When US banks kick off the third-quarter earnings season Friday, it will mark the first in a long line of hurdles the group needs to clear in order to assuage investor fears.

Dolly Khanna raised stakes in smallcap multibagger stock Talbros Automotive Components and Prakash Pipes while slashing her holdings in five others viz. Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers, Som Distilleries & Breweries, Nitin Spinners, Chennai Petroleum Corporation, KCP during the September 2023 quarter. Khanna's stake in Talbros stood at 1.57% at the end of the quarter ended September 30 versus 1.50% at the end of the June quarter, according to the public shareholding data available on BSE. The stock has given nearly 120% returns over the past 12 months and 83% on a year-to-date basis.

Michael Douglas, the distinguished Hollywood Actor and Producer, will be honoured with the prestigious Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award at the 54th International Film Festival Goa." Thakur tweeted on National Cinema Day, 13 October. Union Minister Thakur also informed that Douglas would be attending the 54th International Film Festival in Goa along with Hollywood actor Catherine Zeta Jones and their son. The well known Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has mane accolades to his fame.

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Friday sent AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh to 14-day judicial custody till October 27, 2023. The court had on October 10 had extended the Enforcement Directorate's (ED's) remand by a further three days till October 13. He was later produced in court after five days of ED custody in the Delhi Excise policy money laundering case. The ED's counsel earlier submitted that a bribe was demanded to clear the liquor licences.

BEIJING — Self-driving air taxis are one step closer to reality in China.

Stock market today: Despite weak sentiments at Indian stock market, PSU stocks — REC, GAIL, Coal India, MMTC and NMDC have climbed to a new 52-week peak during Friday deals. All these PSU stocks opened with upside gap and went on to hit new 52-week high during early morning session. Out of these five PSU stocks, two stocks climbed to a new life-time peak while hitting intraday high on Friday.

In July, according to EmberCN, when Worldcoin (WLD) launched, it lent a collective sum of 100 million WLD to five market makers to enhance liquidity. According to the terms, these market makers must either return the coins or buy them at a price ranging between $2 to $3.12 by the conclusion of a three-month term, which is slated for October 22. With the date less than a month away, a close examination of the recent on-chain activities and the current WLD holding statuses of these market makers unveils notable insights.

Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours, Hamas's armed wing said Friday. In a surprise assault early Saturday, Hamas militants stormed Israeli communities near the Gaza border and fired barrages of rockets, in an attack that claimed more than 1,200 lives. Israel says Hamas has taken more than 150 people hostage, including both civilians and security forces. «Thirteen prisoners… including foreigners» were killed in five locations targeted by Israeli fighter jets, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement. Israel has rained air and artillery strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip — a densely populated enclave of 2.4 million people — flattening buildings and killing more than 1,500 people. According to the Hamas media office in Gaza, at least 500 children are among the dead. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades had warned this week that «every targeting of our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages».

Avenue Supermarts is likely to see its net profit for the quarter ended September 2023 decline on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. This is largely because of a weak operational performance. According to the provisional numbers released by the owner of DMart hypermarket chain earlier this month, the company’s standalone revenue increased by nearly 19% YoY in the September quarter to Rs 12,308 crore. However, the net profit is expected to decline about 3% on year to Rs 666 crore, according to the average of estimates given by five brokerages. The Radhakishan Damani-owned company will release its earnings on Saturday. Dalal Street investors will track the management’s commentary on the outlook for the current quarter, given that festival season will drive discretionary spending and increase footfalls in stores. Industry-wide commentary indicated a persistent slowdown in the discretionary category in the September quarter, but analysts expect it to improve in the current quarter with the onset of festive demand. The company’s overall view on the margin trajectory for the rest of the financial year will also be watched by investors. Store addition outlook and trend on revenue per square feet will also be a key monitorable. Revenue per sq ft, which remained subdued in the recent past mainly due to the addition of larger store sizes and weak discretionary spending, is now seeing a pick-up, said analysts at Motilal Oswal Securities. “We believe the improvement in revenue per sqft indicates an improved contribution from larger stores,” it said. As of September 30, the company's total number of stores stood at 336, with nine new additions in the last quarter.

Rajeev Sodhi, Bhatinda, Punjab Tax-saver index funds, also known as equity-linked savings schemes (ELSS) index funds, are a subcategory of ELSS mutual funds, that specifically invests in a basket of stocks that track a particular market index, such as the Nifty 50 or the Sensex. These funds offer investors the dual benefit of tax savings and the potential for capital growth. Tax-saver index funds work by investing in a basket of stocks that track a particular market index.

(Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) On the domestic front, India's headline retail inflation rate, or the Consumer Price Index (CPI), cooled down to a three-month low of 5.02% in September led by drop in vegetable prices, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Thursday. Inflation print for August was 6.83%.

HSBC Holdings Plc. “The numbers don’t exactly add up,” economists Frederic Neumann and Justin Feng wrote in a report Friday.

Congress is yet to announce its nominees. The Election Commission has announced that the first phase of polling for 20 seats in Chhattisgarh will be held on November 7, and the remaining 70 seats in Chhattisgarh will go to polls on November 17.

Alberta is to begin telephone town-hall consultations with the public starting next week on whether to quit the Canada Pension Plan.

₹3543 on Thursday. "The market is likely to remain under pressure because of a disappointing show by the IT majors," said Dhiraj Relli, MD & CEO, HDFC Securities.

Also Read: Delhi's air quality on upswing, likely to enter 'poor' category soon The AQI scale ranges from 'good' between zero and 50, 'satisfactory' from 51 to 100, 'moderate' between 101 and 200, 'poor' from 201 to 300, 'very poor' within 301 to 400, and 'severe' from 401 to 500. Meanwhile, earlier on Thursday, Delhi experienced a maximum temperature of 34.7 degrees Celsius, slightly surpassing the seasonal average, as reported by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Fletcher Building has accused Western Australia’s largest homebuilder BGC of blame-shifting and making unfounded allegations over plumbing pipe leaks in 11 per cent of new houses built in WA between 2017 and 2022 which used a specific Fletcher product.

Shareholders in Australia’s biggest gold miner, Newcrest, have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a $26.2 billion merger with US gold mining giant Newmont.

Dual-listed pay-TV provider Sky Network Television has brought in its long-time adviser Jarden, after receiving a non-binding indicative offer from a mystery international bidder.

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services has told Whitehaven investors to reject the miner’s remuneration report over concerns that “excessive board discretion” is at the heart of a new executive pay regime adopted last year.

US treasury yields has sparked much anxiety among investors, in part because there is no easy explanation for the rise. On Friday, the yield on the 10-year US Treasury note climbed to 4.88 percent for the first time since 2007, while the 30-year offering reached 5.05 percent, also a 16-year peak. Both have edged back in recent days, due mainly to elevated geopolitical risk, analysts say, although yields remain high. The most oft-cited justification for the rise has been expectations that monetary policy will stay hawkish in response to the resilient US economy. «The Fed expectations have been shifting,» said John Canavan, analyst at Oxford Economics. «From the Fed's perspective, we're seeing stronger than expected economic growth, some increase in inflation and uncertainty, particularly as oil prices surge again.» While two-year US treasuries are considered the closest proxy to Fed interest rates, the market has been unsettled by the jump in yields of longer-run bonds of five, 10 or 30 years. «Something is happening in the bond market and nobody fully understands how you kind of break it down,» said Adam Button of ForexLive. Karl Haeling of LBBW pointed to increased bond issuance by the US Treasury Department, saying markets are increasingly worried that the US «fiscal situation is moving on a long-term unsustainably bad trajectory.» For Yardeni Research, «the bond market has changed recently and disconcertingly,» the consultancy said in a recent posting. Perplexing moves by US treasuries in response to economic news «suggest a shift in bond investors' focus from what monetary policymakers may do, to rising alarm about what fiscal policymakers are doing.» «The worry is that the escalating federal budget