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Vedanta, Stovec Industries, Balmer Lawrie Investments, VST Industries, Castrol India, ICICI Securities, and Swaraj Engines, among others, have consistently delivered over 100% dividends over the past five years. Dividend yields — a measure of how much a company pays out in dividends each year compared to its stock price — of these firms range between 3% and 6%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Companies worldwide are expected to spend 50% more on adopting generative AI (GenAI) technologies in 2025 compared to last year, according to a report from an American technology research and IT advisory firm. This, even as analysts and management are divided on how the technology’s rise will impact India’s $254-billion IT services industry.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What happens to the world economy and global geopolitics in 2025 will depend significantly on China, the world’s largest exporter and second-largest consumer market. But prevailing assessments of China’s economic health are deeply flawed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) have become a fertile ground for other universities to hire for professor roles to improve their global standings and meet faculty needs as they expand campuses. A clutch of private universities has registered as recruiters for master’s and doctorate degree holders from IITs to teach mathematics, chemistry and physics to their students, placement executives and students told Mint.

Earth's magnetic field has NASA on high alert. Charged particles from the Sun are repelled and trapped by Earth's magnetic field, which surrounds the planet like a shield. A changing dent in the Earth's magnetic field that extends from South America to southwest Africa has been monitored by NASA.

Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, not to mention others, are 2025 poster-boys of running roughshod. To be fair, strongman-ism is in fashion.

mutual funds according to a research paper by RBI economists. But it is slowly influencing the savers to move away from traditional safe instruments like fixed deposits and post office savings schemes. “Stock market returns have a statistically insignificant relationship with the investment decisions in equity and mutual funds,” said a research paper titled 'Determinants of Household Saving Portfolio in India: Evidence from Survey Data' by Chaitali Bhowmick, Sapna Goel, Amit Kumar, Rekha Misra, Preetika and Satyananda Sahoo. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Reserve Bank of India.

stocks weighed on the benchmarks. The benchmark BSE Sensex lost 109.12 points or 0.14% to close at 78,139.01, while the broader Nifty 50 index closed at 23,644.80, lower by 0.10 points.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—a rotating storm that is so large it could swallow Earth—isn’t what it used to be. Research has revealed that the crimson-hued spot visible today is, on average, larger than the one Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini espied for the first time in 1665 and called the “Permanent Spot." Both Cassini’s spot and the current one are anticyclones, or vortexes of winds in high pressure areas.

The benchmarks rose about 21% each to hit record highs on Sept. 27. They slipped into correction territory — a 10% drop from all-time high levels — in November, hurt by record monthly foreign selling in October and a moderation in earnings growth.

US China trade war is intensifying as we speak, and this situation may deteriorate in the coming months, based on the upcoming US President Donald Trump's plans to impose as much as 25% tariffs on products manufactured in China.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: What do the iPhone and Indian stocks have in common? Quite a few things. For starters, both are in fashion to own, no matter what their prices are.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—China isn’t satisfied with becoming the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles. It wants the chips inside to be Chinese-made too.

Booking.com’s research, the essence of travel will centre on purpose and deeper connections, marking a departure from surface-level tourism.

investment-grade bonds with zero volatility. Investors should look back at their portfolio performance this year, and incorporate learnings along with other factors that will help determine their asset allocation strategy in 2025.

Gold, a safe-haven bet, is likely to continue its record-smashing journey in the New Year, rising to Rs 85,000 per 10 grams and even Rs 90,000 level in domestic markets if geopolitical tensions and global economic uncertainties continue. Also aiding the run is a dovish tilt in monetary policy and buying by central banks, but if the geopolitical crisis eases, the precious metal will turn weak on depreciating rupee. Gold price is hovering at Rs 79,350 per 10 grams in spot markets at present, and Rs 76,600 per 10 grams in futures trade on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX).

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 0.48 per cent to Rs 135.45 at 11:27AM hours (IST) on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session. As per data available on BSE, total traded quantity on the counter stood at 311,947 shares with a turnover of Rs 4.21 crore till 11:27AM (IST). The stock traded at a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 10.93, while the price-to-book value ratio stood at 1.26.

After a blistering rally in bitcoin this year, crypto investors and industry executives told CNBC, they're expecting the flagship cryptocurrency to hit new all-time highs in 2025.

<a rel=«dofollow» href=«https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/divi» s-laboratories-ltd. data-ga-onclick=«Inarticle articleshow link click#Markets#href» target="_blank">Divi's Laboratories Ltd. 0.49 per cent to Rs 6089.70 in Tuesday's trade as of 10:50AM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 6100.00 and low of Rs 5978.70 during the session. The return on equity (ROE) for the stock stood at 11.78 per cent. Traded volume on the counter stood at 10:50AM shares and turnover at Rs 2.24 crore around that time. The stock of <a rel=«dofollow» href=«https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/divi» s-laboratories-ltd. data-ga-onclick=«Inarticle articleshow link click#Markets#href» target="_blank">Divi's Laboratories Ltd. quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 6448.75 and 52-week low prices of Rs 3350.05, respectively.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. 0.45 per cent to Rs 1800.10 in Tuesday's trade as of 10:46AM (IST) even as the benchmark Nifty ruled at 23539.45, 105.46 points. The scrip had closed at Rs 1808.25 in the previous session. The stock quoted a 52-week low of Rs 1354.80 and a high of Rs 2285.85. The company quoted a market-cap of Rs 89279.58 crore on the BSE.