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Yogesh Patil, Chief Investment Officer -Equity at LIC Mutual Fund. In an interview with Mint, Patil talked about the market's performance in 2023 and the outlook. Edited excerpts: The government has already announced many measures such as production-linked incentives (PLI) to propel economic growth.

BSE Sensex reached a historic high of 71,913 points last week, concluding at 71,106, with a decline of 376.79 points, or 0.53%. Also Read: 27 Nifty 50 stocks recorded new all-time highs this year; will the rally continue in 2024? In the sectoral domain, Nifty FMCG, Nifty Oil & Gas, and Nifty Pharma saw gains of over 1%. Conversely, Nifty PSU Bank, Nifty Media, Nifty Auto, Nifty Metal, and Nifty Bank dropped between 1% and 3.08%.

Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Surat Diamond Bourse, which will have facilities like international banking, safe vaults, jewellery mall and create about 150,000 new jobs, during his visit to Gujarat. He also inaugurated the new terminal building of Surat Airport, which can handle 1,200 domestic passengers and 600 international passengers. A total of 146 MPs -- 100 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha -- were suspended for creating a ruckus and disrupting proceedings in both Houses, while they were demanding a statement from Union Minister Amit Shah about the Parliament security breach incident.

Investors who adhere to the contrarian investment philosophy can find resonance in the experiences of Bruce Flatt, CEO, Brookfield Asset Management. In contrast to many of his counterparts, Flatt refrains from hastily investing in the latest trendy stocks or assets. His approach involves going against the prevailing market sentiment and making bets that diverge from the crowd. This strategy demands more effort than simply buying when others are selling. At its core, this seemingly straightforward approach entails a significant investment of time, rigorous research, and a considerable amount of patience.

Non-commercial traders — a group that includes hedge funds, asset managers and other speculative market players — boosted their bearish bets on the greenback in the week ended Tuesday, according to CFTC data compiled by Bloomberg. More than 39,000 contracts are now tied to expectations the US currency will fall, up more than 10,000 from a week ago when the Fed was preparing to meet, the data show. The currency has suffered a pronounced slump in the wake of that confab, when the Fed released updated economic projections forecasting additional monetary easing next year.

2023, year-to-date, yellow metal's gains are not its best in the last 10 years. The top returns were delivered by it amid the Covid virus break in 2020 at 28.23%, highlighting why it is the best hedge in uncertain times. Commenting on yellow metal's performance, Palka Arora Chopra, Director, Master Capital Services said that gold failed to beat other asset classes this year, despite outperforming initially and hitting lifetime highs.

Thomas Schneeweis says focusing on past performance is the first and biggest mistake investors make when it comes to asset allocation. According to Schneeweis, investors should be rather focused on risk instead of returns. “Much of the past, though interesting, may have very little relevance to what we do today,” he said.” Who is Thomas Schneeweis? Thomas Schneeweis is the Founding Editor of The Journal of Alternative Investments and is co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association. He has more than 40 years’ experience in investment management. He is Partner and Head of Research at Yes Wealth Management which provides financial advisory as well as risk based asset allocation and Quantitative Investment Technologies. He has co-authored several books in the area of asset management including The New Science of Asset Allocation: Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World and PostModern Investment: Facts and Fallacies of Growing Wealth in a Multi-Asset World. Investing in hedge funds Schneeweis offered several investment tips on what to look at when investors are looking to invest in hedge funds.

₹26.6 crore after experiencing a dip of day 2. The film grossed ₹49.32 crore net in India over the 3 days, and ₹103 crore worldwide. Major metropolitan areas like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru held onto their enthusiasm, maintaining similar numbers to the opening day.

Google is planning to reorganise a large part of its 30,000-strong ad sales unit as a result of the company's recent advances in artificial intelligence, according to a report by The Information. Notably, Google laid off around 12,000 employees earlier this year, making it the biggest job cut in the company's history.

Indian Premier League (IPL) once again minted some fresh crorepatis out of little-known, domestic cricketers via its bidding-based auction system. It’s been a recurrent theme at the IPL auctions for many years now. Perfectly sane, brilliant minds sitting on the round tables at the auction somehow get triggered by the sight a cricketer and can’t stop themselves from continuously lifting the paddle up (if you haven’t seen the auction, that’s how bidding is done) until something, or someone, break the mysterious spell and make them stop.

Indian Premier League (IPL)? In the IPL auction earlier this week, for example, Australian fast bowlers Mitchell Starc (Rs 24.75 crores) and Pat Cummins (Rs 20.50 crores) together attracted bids totaling Rs 45.25 crores – nearly half the total budget of a team. Even a relative rookie, Spencer Johnson, received Rs 10 crores. Meanwhile, South African pacer Gerald Coetzee got Rs 5 crores, and the World Cup’s third-highest wicket-taker, Dilshan Madhushanka of Sri Lanka, received only Rs 4 crores.

Ralph Ineson, the actor renowned for portraying The Office's Chris Finch, is filing a £150,000 lawsuit against Disney. He alleges permanent shoulder injury from a mishap while filming the Willow sequel for Disney+, where he, in the role of knight Commander Ballantine, faced off against a nine-foot ogre called The Scourge and fell awkwardly. Ralph Ineson alleges that he injured his foot on some steps, preventing him from undertaking physically demanding roles. He is pursuing a compensation claim of up to £150,000 against Walt Disney Company Ltd, citing his inability to perform roles that involve fighting and horse-riding.

ICICI Securities, the financial services company of ICICI Bank, has picked up over 188,000 sq ft office space in information technology park Mindspace Juinagar in Navi Mumbai through a long-term lease of over 12 years. The ICICI Bank subsidiary has leased the office space spread across five floors in one of the towers of the IT park from Newfound Properties & Leasing, a subsidiary of real estate developer K Raheja Corp. The financial services company will be paying monthly rentals of Rs 92.15 lakh for the office space. The lease agreement includes a clause to escalate rentals 4% every year, taking its total payout to around Rs 166 crore through the total term of the lease. The deal was registered on December 15 and the lease tenure will commence from January 1, 2024, shows documents accessed through Propstack.

By Nichola Groom and Cath Turner

Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

BJP has set its sights on an «overwhelming» win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking key organisational leaders to work towards boosting the party's vote share by 10 per cent, sources said. Addressing the BJP's national office-bearers and state presidents on the concluding day of the two-day brainstorming meet on Saturday, Home Minister Amit Shah said that the BJP's performance should leave the opposition «stunned», the sources said.

Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite. They found that certain are PAHs "likely to be formed in the cold areas of space between stars, rather than in hot regions near stars as was previously thought", Curtin University said in a report.

Shah Rukh Khan's latest cinematic venture, 'Dunki,' directed by Rajkumar Hirani, hit the silver screens on December 21, adding another feather to SRK's cap after the successes of 'Pathaan' and 'Jawan' earlier this year. The film, a collaborative effort by JIO Studios, Red Chillies Entertainment, and Rajkumar Hirani Films, features a stellar ensemble cast including Vicky Kaushal, Taapsee Pannu, Boman Irani, Vikram Kochhar, and Anil Grover.

Global NCAP conducts annual crash tests on several cars available in the Indian market. As reported by HT Auto, in the latest round of tests conducted in 2023, a notable achievement has been witnessed as five cars demonstrated exceptional safety performance. These vehicles not only met but surpassed the stringent safety standards set by Global NCAP, further emphasizing the industry's commitment to producing safer vehicles for the Indian market.

PTI report says that the star player may miss the IPL season 2024 too. ALSO READ: Hardik Pandya had ‘captaincy' condition for his return to Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma was in the loop: Report "There is no update on Hardik's fitness status as of now and one can say there remains a big question mark of him being available before the end of IPL," PTI quoted a BCCI source on condition of anonymity.

ChatGPT-4.0, which was developed by OpenAI, has reached a critical milestone in the interface of artificial intelligence and medicine. In a proof-of-concept research that was conducted not too long ago, ChatGPT-4.0 was able to show its skills by passing a clinical neurology test with an astonishing 85 percent of the questions being answered correctly. In the course of an experiment that was carried out by researchers from the University Hospital Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Centre, this remarkable performance was seen.