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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Newell Brands, Intel rise; Ford, Sweetgreen fall

Trader Joe’s is recalling a broccoli cheddar soup that may contain insects and cooked falafel that may contain rocks, about one week after the grocery chain recalled two cookie products over similar concerns

Market Volatility and Exogenous Factors:Market volatility primarily stemmed from exogenous factors. Global monetary and fiscal tightening measures were implemented across countries (with few exceptions) to manage persistent inflation. The shocks caused by the Russia-Ukraine war and China's Covid restrictions also contributed to volatility.

The Fed and ECB both lifted borrowing costs by a quarter of a percentage point while keeping options open for their next meetings in September. In Japan, the central bank made a surprise decision to loosen its yield curve control policy — a pillar of its effort to suppress interest rates and stimulate the economy. That stoked speculation of more drastic changes to the country’s ultra-low borrowing costs.

Heavyweight HDFC Bank ended as the top drag on Sensex, followed by Infosys, TCS and Axis Bank. However, mid and smallcaps outperformed the benchmark index. The BSE Midcap index closed 0.55 per cent higher at 30,159.82 after hitting its record high of 30,178.22.

Tesla and Fisker firm up their India entry plans. Mainstream and luxury manufacturers including BYD, Citroën, Kia, BMW, MercedesBenz, Volvo, Audi, Porsche and Jaguar-Land Rover plan to unveil as many as 21 new electric passenger vehicles (PV). This is expected to fuel growth of the domestic EV market and make electric cars accessible to a wider range of consumers. Electric PVs still account for just 2.47% of total passenger vehicle sales, market researcher Jato Dynamics estimates. Tata Motors is making a big bet on the segment. “The EV contribution in our portfolio is likely to increase to 25% in five years and reach 50% by 2030,” the biggest player in the domestic electric PV market said in its report for 2022-23 (April-March). The company increased its electric vehicle sales from 1,300 units to over 50,000 in three years and has the widest range of EV offerings including hatchbacks, sedans and sports utility vehicles (SUVs).

Piyush Goyal on Saturday said he is hopeful of India finalising certain free trade agreements (FTAs) in the next few months, which would help promote exports. India is in the final stages of concluding FTA negotiations with the UK. The country is also negotiating similar pacts with Canada and European Union (EU). «We can leverage the free trade agreements with the UAE and Australia and we are hopeful that in the next few months, we will finalise many more free trade agreements to help you grow your business with zero duty on finished leather products and footwear available for you to exploit bigger and better markets,» Goyal said while addressing footwear industry representatives here. The minister also asked the industry to focus on quality and sustainable manufacturing processes to tap business opportunities in the developed world. The Indian footwear and leather industry is not only a major foreign exchange earner but being a labour-intensive sector, it also provides employment to approximately 4.5 million people, 40 per cent of whom are women. He said that India has the capacity to become the world's largest and best-quality footwear manufacturer.

Beanie Bubble, a film based on American businessman Ty Warner and his then-girlfriend and business partner Patricia Roche, premiered on July 28, 2023, on Apple TV+. The film is written by Al Gore’s daughter Kristin Gore, and co-directed by her with Damian Kulash. Let’s know more about Ty Warner and Patricia Roche, and the movie The Beanie Bubble.

NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal placed significant emphasis on the Indian footwear and leather industry, highlighting its role as a major foreign exchange earner. During the India International Footwear Fair 2023 (IIFF) held in New Delhi, he emphasised the industry’s labour-intensive nature, contributing to employment opportunities for approximately 4.5 million people, of which 40% are women.

Piyush Goyal Saturday said that the country will soon come out with a domestic size of footwear which is suitable for Indian people. At the India International Footwear Fair, he also said that in the next few months, the country will finalise many more trade pacts with zero duty for finished leather products and footwear. “We have identified the domestic size of footwear which is suitable for Indian People.

jobless claim data. Gold future contract for August expiry on Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ended ₹440 per 10 gm higher on Friday and finished at ₹59,390 levels. In international market, gold price closed 0.69 per cent higher on Friday and ended at $1,959 per ounce levels.

Shares of Bharat Rasayan have delivered bumper returns to investors over the last decade, rising as much as 6,600%. If an investor had invested Rs 10,000 in the stock 10 years ago and stayed put, the investment would have turned to Rs nearly 7 lakh, according to an analysis by ET Markets. In the last 3 years, the stock has surged 53% and gave returns of 103% in the last five years.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The U.S. will help Australia produce guided multiple-launch rocket systems by 2025, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, after the two nations' top officials pledged to engage with China but also oppose it if needed.

thinner bezels on the upcoming iPhone Pro models has led suppliers to adopt a new manufacturing process to reduce the bezel size. Unfortunately, this change has resulted in irregularities in the LG-made displays, leading to failures in reliability tests. Apple product development followers might recall a similar situation with the Apple Watch Series 7, which experienced a launch delay of nearly a month due to a related issue.

A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum. It then placed the boxes on an assembly line and walked back to the shelf to search for more. The crowd, which had assembled at ProMat, the premier trade show for the manufacturing and supply chain industry, held up phones and watched, a little quiet, wondering if at some point the robot would teeter and fall.

Christopher Nolan had a specific vision for his movie 'Oppenheimer' — actors wearing glow-in-the-dark watches to depict the vintage era from the 1920s to the 1960s. Little did many know that these watches, which used radium to create their luminescence, have a dark and tragic history. In the early 1900s, women working in the radium watch industry, famously known as "Radium Girls," faced grave health consequences, including cancer.

gold closed with a loss of $1 at $1959.20 in an eventful week. Gold got some boost from the peak rate narrative as both the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve made it clear that they would adopt a data-dependent approach in deciding their monetary policies going forward. However, the much anticipated Federal Reserve pause is still elusive.

Kfin Technologies Ltd. Investors can find out if and how many shares they have been given through the basis of allotment. Yasons Chemex IPO shares will get listed on the NSE SME on Thursday, August 3.

Semiconductor packaging is poised to be an inflection point in India’s chip-making and fabrication push and the country has the right talent to become a manufacturing centre, Prabu Raja, president of semiconductor products group (SPG) at Applied Materials, told ET in an interview. The central government’s approach to starting with packaging and testing for semiconductors to build a complete ecosystem for chips is the right approach, Raja said on the sidelines of the Semicon 2023 conference in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Applied Materials, one of the leading global manufacturers of precision instruments for semiconductor fabrication, will invest $400 million to set up a collaborative engineering centre in Bengaluru, the company announced last month.Also read | US chipmaker AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028 This would be the company’s second office in India, apart from its research and development centre in the same city.

semiconductor policy has taken care of talent and design capabilities to ensure that it stays ahead of the chip-making plans other countries have drawn up, union minister for electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said. In an interview with Aashish Aryan on the sidelines of the Semicon India 2023 conference in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, he said the India Semiconductor Mission will ensure that companies willing to set up shop in India do so as a natural business decision, not just on geopolitical and supply chain considerations.

(Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the prescription-free sale of the second opioid overdose reversal drug, its manufacturer Harm Reduction Therapeutics said on Friday.