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General Electric (NYSE:GE) gained 6% in early trading Tuesday following another beat and raise quarter.

On the auspicious occasion of Dussehra, many of us are starting new ventures, making new investments, buying new vehicles or bringing home some gold. While the festival is considered auspicious for all the things mentioned above, it also teaches us some crucial money lessons which are as follows:

Also Read: Nifty Smallcap index drops over 2% to 2-week low; NBCC, IRB lead the sell-off today Sensex closed at its lowest level in four months after breaching through 65,000. The Nifty 50 and the midcap index close at their lowest points in almost two months. The Nifty midcap 100 closed 2.88% lower, and the Nifty smallcap index lost 3.80%.

In today's digital age, convenience meets financial needs, but it also brings forth the looming threat of cyber fraud. In FY 2021, the domestic payments fraud recorded by the regulated businesses in India was around ₹542.7 crore; in FY 2023, it was about ₹2537.35 crore. In FY23, 9926 cases of digital loan app-related fraud were reported. 

Investing.com-- Gold prices traded in a mixed range on Tuesday, retaining most recent gains as traders watched for any more developments in the Israel-Hamas war, while focus also turned to a string of key U.S. economic readings due this week.

Investing.com-- Most Asian stocks extended recent losses on Tuesday following weak business activity readings from Japan and Australia, while Chinese markets rebounded from pre-pandemic lows as a state-run fund began snapping up some equities. 

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies advanced on Tuesday, reversing some recent losses as the dollar retreated from 2023 peaks before a string of key economic readings due this week, although risk appetite still remained weak.

China stocks edged up in early trade on Tuesday while Hong Kong shares slipped, as markets struggled to rebound amid a lingering weak sentiment after state fund Central Huijin bought exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to bolster the market. China's blue-chip CSI 300 Index added 0.3% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 0.3%, both hovering around the lowest levels in the year. The weakness comes against broad fragile sentiment around the globe on risks of continued fighting between Israel and Hamas. A gauge of global equity markets fell to an almost seven-month low on the outlook, as the benchmark U.S.

EU Tax Observatory said on Monday. If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said. Currently billionaires' effective personal tax is often far less than what other taxpayers of more modest means pay because they can park wealth in shell companies sheltering them from income tax, the group said in its 2024 Global Tax Evasion Report. «In our view, this is difficult to justify because it risks to undermine the sustainability of tax systems and the social acceptability of taxation,» the observatory's director Gabriel Zucman told journalists. Billionaires' personal tax in the United States is estimated to be close to 0.5% and as low as zero in otherwise high-tax France, the Observatory estimated. Growing wealth inequality in some countries is fuelling calls for the richest citizens to bear more of the tax burden as public finances struggle to cope with aging populations, huge financing needs for climate transition and legacy COVID debt. U.S.

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan's factory activity shrank for a fifth straight month in October while the service sector saw its weakest growth this year, a survey showed on Tuesday, amid growing uncertainty over the outlook for the world's third-largest economy.

Foreign control in the Canadian economy has been steadily declining over the last decade, government data shows.

By Hannah Lang and Kanjyik Ghosh

The shift is on. Battery electric vehicles accounted for 8 per cent of all new car sales in September, and total sales for the year to date have surged threefold on 2022.

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹386 crore for the September quarter up 24% from a year ago, while revenue rose by 16% from ₹2,291 crore a year earlier to ₹2,660 crore. Its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) was at ₹825 crore, with 32% ebitda margin. Net profit margin was at 14.5% for the period.

By Anna-Catherine Brigida

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹386 crore for the September quarter (Q2 FY24), up 24% year-on-year (yoy). Revenue rose to ₹2,660 crore during the quarter from ₹2,291 crore a year ago.

SBI Mutual Fund announced the launch of SBI NIFTY 1D Rate ETF, an open-ended exchange-traded fund replicating/tracking the NIFTY 1D Rate index. However, there is no guarantee or assurance that the investment objective of the scheme will be achieved.

Sequent Scientific, Kirloskar Brothers, Hindustan Construction Company, Ion Exchange (India), Jubilant Pharmova, Jai Corp, and KIOCL, all witnessing losses of over 10% in trade. Other stocks such as Vascon Engineers, Onward Technologies, MTNL, Parag Milk Foods, Asian Granito India, Star Cement, Man Industries (India), Titagarh Rail Systems, Orient Paper & Industries, B L Kashyap & Sons, SEPC, Sasken Technologies, Prime Focus, and Atul Auto recorded declines in the range of 8–10%.

BSE surged over 13 percent to hit their all-time high after the exchange raised transaction charges for trades in the equity derivatives segment with effect from November 1, 2023. These changes will primarily be levied on S&P BSE Sensex Options, particularly the nearest or immediate expiry contracts. The new transaction fee structure is based on the incremental billable monthly turnover (premium value), informed the exchange.

Volatility in vegetable prices has increased in the last four years not just because of weather-related events but demand-supply mismatches, causing a problem for consumers, farmers and policymakers, according to a Crisil report released Monday. “The inflation volatility is bad for consumers and farmers and distracts policymakers in the short term, forcing frequent and repeated price smoothening measures,” Crisil said. Vegetables have a 6% share in the overall inflation basket and account for 15.5% weight in the food category. “In the past 100 months, CPI vegetable inflation was above its period average of 3.8% in 49 months. It was above 7% in 35 months, above 10% in 30 months and above 20% in 13 months,” Crisil economists noted in their report, pointing to higher volatility during the FY20-23 period compared with FY16-19. The report highlighted that potatoes, onions and tomatoes were the primary reason for the volatility in food prices, rising 9.1% on average during this period, compared with 4.8% annual inflation for other vegetables. Tomatoes, Onions and Potatoes account for a 5% share of India’s food basket. The high prices of tomatoes was one of the reasons for the vegetable price shock, which drove retail inflation to a 15-month high of 7.4% in July and 6.8% in August. Data released earlier this month showed that inflation eased to 5% in September as tomato prices declined. “Prices of tomatoes (a major driving force) and several other vegetables fell sharply by September.

Domestic benchmark index NSE Nifty ended 260.9 points down at 19281.75, while the BSE Sensex closed 825.74 points down at 64571.88. On the other hand, Macpower CNC Machine, Zodiac Energy, CreditAccess Grameen, BSE and Ipca Labs stocks hit their fresh 52-week highs today.