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Microsoft reported that state-backed Russian hackers successfully infiltrated the company's corporate email system, AP reported. The breach affected accounts of key members of the leadership team, and employees in the cybersecurity and legal departments, it added. The intrusion commenced in late November 2022, with Microsoft detecting it on January 12.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Despite being Saturday today, dealing on Dalal Street will take place from 9 AM to 3:30 PM. The decision has come ahead of the Ram Temple ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony in Ayodhya on Monday, January 22. So, the stock market in India will remain closed on the following Sunday (21st January 2024) and Monday (22nd January 2024).

normal trading session today, while the markets will remain shut on Monday, January 22. On Friday, the benchmark indices witnessed a minor upside bounce after showing sharp weakness in the last couple of sessions. The Sensex jumped 496.37 points, or 0.70%, to end at 71,683.23, while the Nifty 50 settled 160.15 points, or 0.75%, higher at 21,622.40.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, has secured $500 million in commitments from investors toward a $1 billion goal, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is discussing a valuation of $15 billion to $20 billion, though terms could still change in the coming weeks, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter.

Banks are likely to make representations to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on sustained liquidity drainage that has pushed up funding costs for lenders despite unchanged policy rates for nearly a year. Liquidity has steadily declined with the central bank repeatedly stressing the primacy of maintaining price stability as Indian voters get ready to elect their next government this summer. «Banks and other participants in bond and interest rate markets will send a representation on the issues on Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) buffers and high cost of funds to the RBI,» a source told ET. «This will be done next week, ahead of the policy statement on February 8,» the source said. LCR refers to a post-global financial crisis norm that requires banks to maintain high quality liquid assets (HQLA) to meet 30 days of net fund outflows under conditions of stress.

Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel would «receive a real slap in the face» if it expanded the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border. Since the surprise October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, there have been near daily exchanges of cross-border fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian militants. Israel has repeatedly bombarded border villages, with the violence killing more than 195 people in Lebanon, including at least 142 Hezbollah fighters, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, 15 people have been killed, of whom nine were soldiers and six civilians, according to the Israeli army. «If Israel decides to expand its aggression, it will receive a real slap in the face in response,» Hezbollah's number two, Naim Qassem, said in a statement. Any restoration of stability on the border is contingent on «the end of the aggression in Gaza», he added. «The enemy must know the party is ready, that we are preparing based on the principle that an endless aggression can happen, just like our will to push back the aggression is infinite.» His remarks came after Israeli air strikes «completely destroyed» at least three houses in southern Lebanon on Friday, the official Lebanese news agency NNA and the mayor of the affected border community said. The agency reported four houses were targeted «since this morning by the Israeli air force in Kfar Kila», a village near the Israel-Lebanon border, while three were «completely destroyed». A fifth home was also targeted by artillery fire, NNA said. The Israeli army said on Friday it had «conducted air strikes and carried out artillery and tank fire against Hezbollah observation posts and terrorist infrastructure» in the Kfar Kila

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MUMBAI : Infrastructure conglomerate Adani Group has released pledged shares worth ₹2,878 crore ($346.2 million) related to four of its companies during the December quarter, BSE data analyzed by Mint showed. The group released a total 28.67 million pledged promoter shares across Adani Enterprises Ltd, Adani Green Energy Ltd, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd, and Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. Notably, the group has reduced its pledge positions related to ACC Ltd and Ambuja Cements Ltd to zero, from 11.72% and 100%, respectively.

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RAMALLAH, West Bank—The Israeli-occupied West Bank has become an increasingly deadly front in a Middle East conflict that has spread beyond the war in Gaza, with near-daily Israeli raids into Palestinian villages and cities which Israel says are aimed at uprooting growing militant activity and preventing new attacks. Early on Friday, Israeli security forces ended a two-day raid in Tulkarem, a West Bank city straddling the wall separating Palestinian communities and Israel that hasn’t been known as a hotbed of militancy in recent years, leaving at least eight Palestinians dead. The raids, which lasted for more than 35 hours, occurred in the city and its two refugee camps, Tulkarem and Nour Shams, where residents said Israeli forces destroyed homes and damaged infrastructure, including roads.

reporting entities (REs) under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002 to include practising chartered accountants, cost accountants and company secretaries. This is a welcome step, as many were found involved in money laundering activities, sometimes unknowingly. Auditors and legal professionals had been left out of the scope of this notification. The scope of activities for such reporting leaves out traditional practices like:

A crypto trader has managed to secure a profit of $6.77 million in just three hours after the launch of the SatoshiVM token. According to an X post published by blockchain trading firm Lookonchain, the trader used the “Banana Gun” sniping tool to purchase SatoshiVM before it launched. The trader then sold the token as the price increased, taking home nearly $7 million in profits.

Crypto exchange HTX is back up and running after a DDoS attack saw the site overloaded for an estimated 15 minutes Friday morning, HTX advisor Justin Sun announced Friday.

Hong Kong-based Venture Smart Financial Holdings Limited (VSFG) is gearing up to seek approval from the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) for the introduction of a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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BSE SME with tentative listing date fixed as Monday, January 29, 2024. Euphoria Infotech India IPO was subscribed 24.62 times. The public issue subscribed 61.05 times in the retail category, 0.22 times in QIB, and 21.01 times in the NII category.

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Investing.com -- Shares in Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) soared in premarket U.S. trading on Friday after the U.S. budget carrier reported preliminary quarterly operating revenue that was above average analyst projections.

Reserve Bank of India has said there will be no trading in government securities, foreign exchange markets, money markets and rupee interest rate derivatives on January 22, as the government of Maharashtra has declared the day as a public holiday. The state government has declared January 22 as a public holiday under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. “Settlement of all outstanding transactions will accordingly get postponed to the next working day i.e., January 23, 2024 (Tuesday),” the RBI said. The 3-day variable rate repo (VRR) auction conducted by the RBI on Friday, which is scheduled to reverse on January 22, will now be reversed on January 23.

Mint had earlier reported that this cooperation will now extend to the Pacific Islands as well. The Philippines, a key political and security ally of the US, has recently increased its defence procurement from India, including the BrahMos missile, amid strained relations with China over maritime disputes. Manila has accused China of using aggressive tactics and condemned the actions.