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Most of the world has shown clarity in its response to America’s new National Security Strategy. Russia loves it, liberal Europeans are dismayed and the Gulf monarchies overjoyed.In the rest of Asia — and what, until now, Washington has called the Indo-Pacific—the dominant emotion is uneasiness. There are words, phrases and entire sections in the document that are exactly what we want to hear.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of Tata Steel Ltd have gained about 6% over the past three trading days after its board approved a slew of projects, along with an acquisition and a memorandum of understanding (MoU). Together, these initiatives aim to enhance scale, expand the product portfolio, strengthen backward and forward integration, and reduce the company’s carbon footprint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When India’s market regulator barred finfluencer Avadhut Sathe from accessing the securities market and froze ₹546 crore in alleged “wrongful gains," it marked more than the fall of a social-media trading star. It revealed a deeper structural gap in India’s fast-expanding digital-finance ecosystem, where education, advice and promotion are seamlessly interwoven and poorly regulated.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump’s top envoys launched two days of meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Sunday as the administration stepped up pressure on Kyiv to put aside its resistance and agree to a peace deal with Russia by year-end. The talks between Ukraine and its Western partners have become a tug of war, even without Russia at the table.

America’s greatness, or at least the White House version of it, gets costlier for others by the day. The blow taken by India’s auto exports to Mexico, whose tariffs are set to more than double next year, could also be ascribed to that project.When Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled her plan to raise barriers in September, a shield for local industry was the stated aim, but her real anxiety was clearly a review of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) due in 2026.Recall how US President Donald Trump rattled Mexico and Canada with threats within days of taking office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. I recently attended an investment conclave in Ayodhya where, in a keynote speech, Acharya Mithilesh Nandini Sharan Ji shared the story of Bhasmasura as a metaphor for what investors do. It was an unexpected connection, but it was the perfect metaphor for what I see happening to retail investors across India today.

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Mint’s Annual BFSI Conclave 2025 on Friday, flagged risks associated particularly with stablecoins, considered as the more sensible, utility-driven corner of the crypto universe.Mint takes a look at this growing asset class, and what it may mean for India’s financial system.Stablecoins are a category of cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a stable value, usually by pegging them to relatively secure assets such as fiat currencies, commodities, or other financial assets. First appearing in the mid-2010s, they were created to combine the efficiency of blockchain-based payments with the price stability needed for routine financial use.The most widely used stablecoins are backed by the US dollar.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 5 December, Netflix signed an agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) studio and streaming businesses for an enterprise value of $82.7 billion.

As we approach the end of 2025, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel on India-US relations, which started on a strong note amid the promise of Trump 2.0 but gave way to strained ties over claims of US mediating between India and Pakistan, Washington’s sudden fondness for India’s neighbour and its newly minted Field Marshall Asim Munir, and punitive levies on India for buying discounted oil from Russia.Trump, who has given himself the title of the ‘Peace President’, has been the major disruptor in 2025 – whether in geopolitics or geo-economics -- wielding tariffs against countries for allegedly short-changing the US, and as leverage to broker peace.If he’s been labelled unreliable or unpredictable, it’s with good reason. How else can you explain Trump’s decision to sell Nvidia’s H200 chips to China?To be fair, Trump had given the world a warning in October that he would allow Nvidia to export chips to China after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to rationalise margins on equity derivatives on non-expiry days to encourage big traders to place longer-term bets rather than focus solely on the expiration day, two people aware of the development told Mint. This move could deepen the derivatives markets, where most of the trading by large, high-frequency and proprietary traders as well as individual investors takes place on weekly option contracts' expiry.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Disgraced crypto tycoon Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to fraud in connection with the $40 billion crash of his TerraUSD and Luna coins in 2022. Kwon, who had asked for a sentence of five years, pleaded guilty to two criminal counts in August, including one count of wire fraud and one on conspiracy to commit wire, securities and commodities fraud.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A wave of warnings over Kaynes Technology’s finances has rattled India’s electronics manufacturing sector (EMS), sharpening focus on the industry’s ability to fund the heavy investments required to tap upcoming government incentives. Brokerage firm Kotak Securities’ notes on the company this month has had a cascade effect on the wider sector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of India’s state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) have declined 6-9% over the past month, hit by recent volatility in marketing margins. The margin on diesel fell to an 18-month low of negative ₹0.3 per litre in the third week of November amid US sanctions on Russian firms that have disrupted diesel exports.

India’s government finally announced the implementation of the four labour codes passed by Parliament about five years ago, starting 21 November 2025. These four, namely the Code on Wages of 2019, Industrial Relations Code of 2020, Code on Social Security of 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code of 2020, were meant to rationalize 29 old labour laws by replacing them with new codes, as recommended in a 2002 report by the second National Commission of Labour set up in 1999.The objective was to simplify labour laws and make them effective—for the benefit of workers as well as employers.Reforming these laws has been part of the governance agenda of every successive government since 1991, when India’s economy underwent broad reforms in various other domains.Given the multiplicity of labour laws enacted since independence, the idea of revising them was also to make them enforceable (or justiciable) and reflect the contemporary reality of changing labour relations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When global rating agencies revised their sovereign debt ratings for France and Portugal earlier this year, aligning them with those of Care Ratings, they “vindicated" the stance of the Indian rating agency that launched its fledgling sovereign rating business just over a year ago, a top official at Care Ratings said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Suzlon Energy Ltd’s stock is down about 20% over the past six months, weighed down by the fear that India’s wind cycle is losing momentum. Still, it’s worth noting that Suzlon has assembled a robust medium-term orderbook pipeline.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Sanjay Malhotra became the 26th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a year ago, he didn’t inherit a crisis—in fact, the period of high inflation was drawing to a close. He did, however, assume office at a time when the entire world was gripped by uncertainty.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. CHINA’S 1.1BN internet users churn out more data than anyone else on Earth. So does the country’s vast network of facial-recognition cameras.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The artificial-intelligence chips that Nvidia is allowed to ship to China will undergo a special security review in the U.S. before they are exported, according to administration officials.