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Day trading guide for Indian stock market today: The impressive real Q3 GDP numbers of India provided the ammunition to the bulls to catapult key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market to all-time highs. The Nifty 50 index gained 355 points and closed at the 22,338 level, the BSE Sensex shot up 1245 points and ended at the 73,745 mark whereas the Bank Nifty index finished 1166 points higher at the 47,286 level. The Indian stock market (equity and F&O) will remain open today as a part of the framework for the business continuity plan and disaster recovery site for stock exchanges and depositories and would involve an intraday shift from the primary to the disaster recovery site.

Nvidia's stock added 4 per cent after Dell, which sells high-end servers made with Nvidia's processors, gave an upbeat forecast late on Thursday, pointing to a surge in orders for its AI-optimized servers. The Nasdaq 100 climbed almost 1.5 per cent, a gauge of chipmakers jumped over 4% and Nvidia Corp. led gains in megacaps.

MUMBAI : The AI prosecutor or defence attorney isn’t on the horizon, but large Indian law firms are moving rapidly to adopt artificial intelligence to carry out a string of ‘simple’ tasks including research, drafting and client presentations, helping them achieve efficiency and leaving the lawyers to focus on litigation. Those entering the legal profession, however, need not fear for their jobs, law firms insisted, saying that AI technology would take over basic functions only. New joiners and interns at law firms—typically at the forefront of such work as part of their learning curve—would be able to cut down on efforts that include trawling voluminous data to summarize and analyze information.

While an overwhelming number of women are living with financial anxiety, many are taking active steps to improve their situation and boost their financial confidence, according to new research from Fidelity.

By Abhijith Ganapavaram, Allison Lampert and Valerie Insinna

Investing.com-- Oil prices settled at near four-month highs Friday, on growing optimism about tighter global supplies as focus shifts to potential announcement by OPEC+ next week.    

Amazon Prime Video viewers will have new films and shows to watch in March starting from this weekend. «Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension» will release on March 3. «Five Nights at Freddy’s» is all set to premier on March 5. 'Divergent', 'Marlowe', «Ricky Stanicky» will release on March 7. «My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3» is set to premier on March 12. 'Frida', and «Invincible Season 2, Part 2» are all set to premier on March 14. On March 15, NWSL will be on Prime Video on March 15, as per a report in Hollywood Reporter.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, bringing together both the original and new Ghostbusters casts. The film promises a significant shift in the Ghostbusters franchise, generating excitement among fans. As the cast and crew intensify promotional efforts, the likes of Patton Oswalt declare this installment to be genuinely frightening.

By Jahnavi Nidumolu, Aditya Soni and Akash Sriram

Suven Pharmaceuticals, which announced the proposed merger of Cohance Lifesciences on Thursday, will be investing in research and development, commercial capabilities, and pursuing merger and acquisitions, as it aspires to be the «most admired» fully integrated global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) services provider, the company's top executive said. «We want to be a diversified, end-to-end capability outsourcing partner, serving customers from development to commercial scale. Doing this reliably & consistently across a wide range of chemistries, that's where the opportunity is,» said Annaswamy Vaidheesh, executive chairman of Suven in an interview to ET. «Our business is really about partnering with the customers over the long term. Our success is inextricably linked with our customer's as our business models are hard wired together,» Vaidheesh said. He added that he wants Suven to be the Lonzas of the world. Lonza-based in Basel, Switzerland is a global CDMO powerhouse.

Big Tobacco companies aggressively push alternative products while experts wrestle with their potential benefits and risks. Zyn comes in flavors like mint, coffee and citrus, and Philip Morris International markets it to adult tobacco users. But videos of young people popping the pouches have racked up millions of views on TikTok and other social media platforms.

carbon emissions — originating from design, production and deployment of cement, steel and aluminium — have lagged. UNEP pinpoints three strategies to decarbonise building materials: one, avoid unnecessary extraction and production; two, shift to regenerative materials; and three, improve decarbonisation of conventional materials. Sugarcrete is one such regenerative material.

Investing.com — Apple's reported decision earlier this week to scrap its plans to create an electric car could help boost the tech giant's push to develop its artificial intelligence capabilities, an analyst at Edward Jones has told Investing.com.

In a research note published today (1 March), analyst Sachin Saggar said the broker's base case is that 2024 will be a «tough year» with no «obvious trades» providing upside optionality for the strategy. «We believe BH Macro is a high quality fund but today's environment does not seem conducive to the strategy,» he said.  The trust, which holds £1.6bn in assets and is a feeder into the $13bn Brevan Howard Master fund, one of Brevan Howard's flagship funds, fell 2% in 2023. Pershing Square Holdings manager slashes performance fee as Ackman eyes US launch BHM has remained in negat...

By Howard Schneider

MUMBAI : Benchmark indices vaulted to record highs on Friday after India’s economy surprised the markets with a faster-than-anticipated pace in the December quarter, a momentum expected to continue led by large cap stocks. Banks, capital goods, and oil and gas stocks catapulted the Nifty index to a record high of 22,353.30 points, and the Sensex to 73,819.21 on Friday. This was driven by provisional domestic institutional investors buying of ₹3,814.53 crore and proprietary trader purchases of ₹618.58 crore, BSE data show.

Gold Loan meant for aspirational customers. The private lender — in a statement — said the loan offers five key features and would turn out to be a compelling alternative to conventional credit options. These key features are: 1) fixed monthly interest rate as low as 0.88 percent, i.e., 10.56 percent per annum 2) zero processing fee, 3) same day disbursement, 4) flexible repayment options and 5) minimal documentation.

Once a stock-market trend has been identified and named—think FAANG or the Magnificent Seven—the headiest gains are typically past. But riding a trend after it has been named can deliver market-beating returns for another year or so before the trade loses momentum and gives back some of the gains. To study the performance of named stock-market trends, my research assistants (Matthew Rickard and Camila Marín Builes) and I did a deep-dive on eight named trends over the past 10 years that were popularized by the mainstream media and covered by more than three such organizations.

There’s a lot that people don’t know when it comes to saving for retirement, but even a few hours of simple instruction can make a big difference.

A new study from TIAA adds to the body of knowledge on financial stress and its influence on mental health.

The potential for homeownership to build wealth has not been lost on the millions of Americans who have done so and now enjoy a mortgage-free home with substantial value.