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«So, broadly, the last three to six months, the entire rally in last one year is actually led by earnings growth. It is not just price growth,» says Ishmohit Arora, School of Intrinsic Compounding.Before we talk about market, give me a pulse of how is the sentiment on street among investors, young investors, HNI investors? Is it getting frothier in terms of behavioural finance? Are there so much excitement on street or is there caution even among them?The interesting thing is everyone is a bit sceptical about the returns that they have seen in the last three to six months and when you speak to a lot of other investors, then everyone is a bit sceptical. Even we are also a bit sceptical but the interesting thing is, whenever we think that we are a bit sceptical, we always end up finding some new interesting opportunities. So, broadly, the last three to six months, the entire rally in last one year is actually led by earnings growth.

These days financial frauds are on the rise, and we must be careful and protect our wealth from fraud and cheating. Cheque frauds are also prevalent and a sophisticated form of financial crime that can have serious consequences.

Brightcom Group shares extended their rout, hitting its 5% lower circuit in trade for the second consecutive session after SEBI banned seasoned investor Shankar Sharma, and 23 other individuals, from selling or offloading Brightcom Group shares they possess, either directly or indirectly on beliefs of manipulation. 

Lawyers and other professional advisers regard artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT as another vehicle to boost profits, and are looking forward to junking menial work as the technology improves.

The Victorian government has blamed the Commonwealth Games fiasco on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and 12 interest rate rises in 14 months as Premier Daniel Andrews declined to attend a federal inquiry into the matter.

Here's some new information about APA Group's knockout bid for Alinta’s Pilbara power assets.

Pragyan is derived from Sanskrit word which means wisdom. Pragyan is a six-wheeled rover designed to carry out series of experiments on the surface of the Moon. As per NASA, The rover has a rectangular chassis, 91.7 x 75.0 x 39.7 cm in size, mounted on a six-wheel rocker-bogie wheel drive assembly.

A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project

Germany plans to ease rules for obtaining its citizenship under legislation approved by the Cabinet

The nation's largest railroad union wants federal regulators to do more to ensure conductors are properly trained in the wake of two recent trainee deaths in Maryland

The union representing 340,000 UPS workers says its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have held closed-door discussions on the possible expansion of their BRICS economic bloc

Record-breaking oil production in New Mexico is likely to provide state government with a new multibillion-dollar surplus during the upcoming budget year

Employees of Walt Disney World’s governing district are criticizing new board members appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis for a decision to eliminate free passes and discounts to the theme park resort for 400 of its district workers

Perhaps it’s the inexplicable craving for a day off ahead of the big Labour Day holiday. Perhaps it really is a stomach bug, or that more recent fiend — the coronavirus. And of course, it might just be the blues at the end of summer.

China so that it can undergo negotiations with Beijing to «amend and strengthen» the landmark deal, the State Department said on Wednesday. For over 40 years, the agreement between the two countries has yielded cooperation across a range of scientific and technical fields, a powerful sign that the rivals could set aside their disputes and work together. The deal, signed when Beijing and Washington established diplomatic ties in 1979 and renewed about every five years since, has resulted in cooperation in areas from atmospheric and agricultural science to basic research in physics and chemistry. But concerns about China's growing military prowess and theft of U.S. scientific and commercial achievements have prompted questions about whether the Science and Technology Agreement (STA), set to expire on Aug. 27, should continue. «This short-term six-month extension will keep the agreement in force while we seek authority to undertake negotiations to amend and strengthen the terms of the STA. It does not commit the United States to a longer-term extension,» a State Department spokesperson told Reuters.

Nvidia shares rallied almost 3% on Wednesday as traders bet the chip designer will deliver a strong outlook after the bell and boost the US stock market as it reaps the benefits of early investments in artificial intelligence. Nvidia's shares have more than tripled this year, with the chipmaker at the center of a Wall Street technology rally fueled by optimism about the potential of AI. Its stock market value of $1.16 trillion makes Nvidia the world's most valuable chipmaker by far, more than double the value of TSMC, the world's second most valuable chip company. Nvidia's shares briefly hit a record high in the previous session. «It's not often that the fate of the market rests in the hands of just one stock, but it very much feels like that is what's going on at the moment,» said JJ Kinahan, chief executive officer of IG North America. Retail investors made net purchases of $186 million in Nvidia shares over the past week, JPMorgan said in a report on Wednesday. Nvidia dominates the market for high-end processors designed for AI computing, and its stellar outlook in the previous quarter sent its shares soaring over 20% and ignited a rally in the S&P 500 technology sector, which surged 8% in the five sessions after its results. Options data showed the stock could swing nearly 11% by Friday, larger than the 8.6% average move in either direction seen a day after Nvidia's results over the last eight quarters. Nvidia is part of the so-called Magnificent Seven group of megacap stocks including Apple and Tesla that have powered the S&P 500's nearly 16% recovery this year. Bullish investors are betting a strong report and forecast from the company will revive a US stocks rally that has paused in recent weeks.

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India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are likely to revaluate duty cuts, non-tariff measures, safeguard and anti-dumping duties as part of the review of their existing free trade agreement. While the scope of the review of the Asean-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA) would be decided at the leaders' meeting next month, sources said that the two sides have agreed on exclusion lists, origin rules and technical barriers to trade to be part of the review. New Delhi also sought an evaluation of the services agreement but the grouping is not on board for the same, people familiar with the matter said. The Asean-India Trade in Services Agreement was signed in November 2014 and contains provisions on transparency, domestic regulations, recognition, market access, national treatment and dispute settlement. «India has been asking for a review for more than five years. Asean has agreed for some provisions and there are concerns on others,» said an official. India has asked for a review of the agreement to eliminate barriers and misuse of the trade pact.

India is hopeful of a «good outcome document» and consensus among G-20 members on the five key areas of trade and investment at the two-day trade ministers' meet beginning Thursday. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said that the members are looking at reaching a consensus on a «Jaipur call for action». India has identified five priority issues-growth and prosperity, resilient global value chains, MSMEs, logistics, and World Trade Organization (WTO) reform-under its G-20 presidency from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. «We have been able to come up with significant consensus amongst the member countries invoking a Jaipur call for action,» he said, adding that it will help promote industry, MSME sector, upgrade the global trade help desk, and bridge information gaps for MSMEs to help them expand their business and trade. Goyal was addressing the media at the G-20 trade and investment ministers' meeting in Jaipur on Wednesday. He said the members have deliberated on formulating high-level principles for digitalisation of trade and trade facilitation. «We are confident that tomorrow and day after ministerial meetings will come up with a concrete actionable outcome agenda, which will help the world withstand any future shocks,» he said. On WTO reforms, he said India wants the dispute settlement mechanism of the multilateral trade watchdog to work smoothly.Russia-Ukraine conflict shadow On the Ukraine-Russia conflict casting a shadow on the G-20 trade and investment track outcome, he said that there are realities on which consensus is not possible.

NEW DELHI : India on Wednesday carved its legacy in space history with the first soft-landing on the moon’s south pole, a tough terrain holding secrets that could one day aid human spacefarers. With this, the country joins the US, Russia and China, the world’s only other nations to have successfully landed on the lunar surface. Applause broke out at the command centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) at 6:04pm as Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander module—named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of space research in India—touched down on the south pole, where previous attempts have failed before.