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Krishnan V R, Chief of Quantitative Research team at Marcellus, believes there is less chance of the market repeating the roughly 29% returns achieved last year. For the broader markets as well, he doesn't expect the FY24 performance to repeat this year given small and mid-cap indexes were roughly up around 60% last year, far outstripping the largecaps. He further noted that new investors who have entered markets since COVID have mostly seen the market trend in one direction which can engender false confidence of equity being a low-risk, high-return asset class.

ANI. Mayank Yadav was also awarded the Player of the Match. His remarable performance have ignited calls for him to be selected for this year's T20 World Cup beginning on June 1, five days after the IPL final.

Sebi) warnings of froth in the broader markets, as investors remained bullish on this segment last month. A nine-day rally in the Nifty Smallcap 250 index has put it on track to reclaim the level last seen on February 27 when Sebi's warning caused the bulls to hit a bump.

Bangkok, Thailand – April 2nd, 2024 – Developers of Polkadot, the blockspace ecosystem for boundless innovation, learned of a paradigm shift in the ecosystem – the JAM (Join-Accumulate Machine) chain, the successor of the Polkadot Relay Chain, which will provide multi-core computing and support for hundreds of chains. The plans were unveiled in Bangkok at sub0 Asia , the Polkadot Developer Conference, by Dr. Gavin Wood, Founder of Polkadot and Chief Architect at Parity Technologies.

At least half of adults in a range of major economies report being stressed about their personal finances, and say inflation is one of the main reasons.

Like in the case of PUC 1, the board is expected to release the results on its official website at karresults.nic.in. Over 6.9 lakh students had enrolled for the 2nd PUC exam including 3.3 lakh male and 3.6 lakh female students. The 2nd PUC exams were held from March 1, 2024 till March 22, 2024. The 2024 KSEAB PUC 2 exam was held in 80+20 pattern, consisting of of an 80-mark written test and 20-mark internal assessment.

As domestic growth prospects remain promising, backed by capital investments and policy support, Ambit Asset Management is betting on three major themes to play on India’s story. Mass consumption, manufacturing and industrial, and exports are the three major themes that the asset management firm is bullish on. “We are becoming increasingly positive on the mass consumption theme, driven by the recovery in the Hindi belt, deflation in raw material prices, and large companies taking aggressive price actions,” said Bhargav Buddhadev, fund manager at Ambit Asset Management, in an interview with ETMarkets. Buddhadev holds a positive outlook on the manufacturing and industrial theme, as he anticipates a revival in private capital expenditure. Lastly, he favors the export theme, given the government's implementation of various policy initiatives such as signing FTAs and incentivizing several sectors through PLI schemes. Edited excerpts:

February saw a notable inflection in the investment fund space as mutual funds witnessed net inflows for the first time since November 2021, according to the latest US Monthly Product Trends report from Cerulli Associates.

UltraTech Cement: The company has announced its plan to allocate ₹32,400 crore for capital expenditure over the coming three years, aiming to expand its operations. The firm intends to augment its capacity to approximately 200 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) in the near term. In addition, the company has reported the initiation of two new greenfield projects with an aggregate capacity of 5.4 MTPA.

Intel on Tuesday disclosed deepening operating losses for its foundry business, a blow to the chipmaker as it tries to regain a technology lead it lost in recent years to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before. The unit had revenue of $18.9 billion for 2023, down 31% from $27.49 billion the year before.

On a day where blue-chip crypto markets are trading with a bearish bias, investors are scouring altcoin markets for strong performers that could be the best crypto to buy today.

Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series SCTV, has died at the age of 82.

IPL 2024 season has now entered its second month with fifteen matches been played till now. There have been record breaking feats, eye-catching batting and bowling performances, athletic fielding and most importantly, the celebration of cricket in all forms, in these matches of the Indian Premier League played till now.

R Praggnanandhaa will enter as the favourite among the three Indian participants in the Candidates chess tournament that will get underway here from Wednesday to decide the challenger for the next world championship match. After nearly 35 years as many as three Indians – Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh and Vidit Gujrathi — have qualified for the most prestigious event of the year that has just eight participants. According to an expert, India is the new Russia of the chess world, as in the past such dominance was only shown by Russian players.

Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City's experience of thriving under the pressure of a title race will not be the decisive factor in who wins the Premier League. Guardiola's men are aiming to become the first side to ever win four consecutive English top-flight titles and claim their sixth Premier League crown in seven seasons. However, City will have to come from behind in the final nine games of the campaign after a 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal on Sunday left them still in third.

Audit fees for Nifty 500 companies increased by a modest 28% between 2018 and 2023, indicating that they have lagged behind their growth and operational performance, as market capitalisation grew 92.75%, net sales rose 83.7%, and profit after tax (PAT) increased 126.2%. According to data provided by Prime Database, audit fees grew from ₹1,114 crore in FY18 to ₹1,430 crore in FY23 for Nifty 500 companies and from ₹404 crore to ₹466 crore for Nifty 50 companies. While the audit fee hike is marginal, the sharply increasing complexity in business operations, heightened regulatory oversight on listed companies, growing complexity in reporting requirements, and escalating talent and organisation costs every year are putting auditors in a tough spot.

RCB vs LSG IPL 2024: Nicholas Pooran slammed some massive boundaries in the final two overs to power Lucknow Super Giants' score to 181/5 after 20 overs against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. With a massive 106-meter six against pacer Reece Topley, Nicholas Pooran completed his 100 maximums in IPL and joined the elite list of batters to achieve the milestone. LSG fans were excited to watch the stunning performance and they thanked Lucknow's former mentor Gautam Gambhir for finding players like Nicholas Pooran and Mayank Yadav.

Barbara Rush, a popular leading actor in the 1950 and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career, has died. She was 97. Rush's death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday. Additional details were not immediately available. Cowan praised her mother as «among the last of „Old Hollywood Royalty“ and called herself her mother's „biggest fan.“

In a recent interview with CNBC, actress Rupali Ganguly opened up on how, despite having a flourishing career in television, she was looked down upon and not so subtly judged for being a small-screen actress. She also revealed that though the biased attitude stung, she did not have much scope to ponder on it, as she was the sole breadwinner of her family. “Television was again, struggling days. I had to run the home, so whatever work came along, I took it. It was looked down upon, especially in the Bengali community. So, you’re kind of an outcast. People would feel sorry for me because I was doing television, and I didn’t care because, at that time, we needed to run the house” The ‘Anupamaa’ star revealed that she never had any overarching ambition, or any burning desire to be the #1 star. Looking after her sick father and financial stability was her sole priority for a long while. “ I’ve never had ambitions. I’ve never had dreams. My thing was I didn’t want my father to be in a municipal hospital. I wanted him to be in a good hospital like Leelavati. For that, it was imperative that I work. I think, even my brother, there’s so much respect for whatever little we get that we want to make the maximum out of it. I would do anything for my Papa; he is my inspiration, he is my god, and he still is, of course,” she said.

Tesla reported its first year-over-year decline in quarterly deliveries since 2020, missing Wall Street’s expectations and stoking further concern about the company’s growth prospects this year. Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker delivered 386,810 vehicles globally in the first three months of 2024, down 8.5% from a year earlier. It was the company’s lowest quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2022.