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The Nifty future closed positive, with gains of 0.40% at 23597 levels on Thursday. The India VIX was down by 2.68% from 13.71 to 13.34 levels.

Gold prices were flat on Friday but were on track for their second straight weekly gain as weak economic data from the U.S. boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this year. FUNDAMENTALS

Crude oil futures slid in early trade on Friday on the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates in Asia and the United States, while falling U.S. oil inventories kept prices from moving lower. Brent futures for August delivery dipped 11 cents to $85.60 a barrel by 0013 GMT, while U.S. crude was down 9 cents to $81.20 per barrel.

dollar rose to a seven-week high against the yen on Thursday, while the sterling and euro fell amid on the U.S. economy is coming off the boil while traders watch for more data bolstering the case for a Federal Reserve rate cut this year. May retail sales released this week were tepid and the labor market appears to be weakening. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, but was still more than expected, data released on Thursday showed, indicating the jobs market remained strong despite a gradual cooling.

Asian shares are ending the week with a whimper after a rally to 26-month highs earlier this week drew profit-taking, while the strength in the U.S. dollar as central banks in Europe cut rates kept pressuring the yen towards the intervention zone. Overnight, the Swiss National Bank cut rates for a second time while the Bank of England opened the door to an easing in August after holding rates steady. Sterling, the Swiss franc and the euro fell, lifting the dollar broadly.

rupee weakened to a record low versus the US dollar Thursday as broad gains in the American currency globally and corporate outflows hurt the local unit, traders said. The Indian currency shed 0.2% against the dollar to settle at 83.6525/$1, a new closing low, LSEG data showed. During trade, the rupee weakened to a lifetime intraday low of 83.6650/$1.

Journal of Zoology in 1982, A.J.T. Johnsingh documented the behaviour of dholes he observed from August 1976 to July 1978 in Bandipur Tiger Reserve. The picture he drew is a lively one, full of seriousness and play.

Mint in the week gone by. The government has announced hikes in minimum support prices of kharif crops, while the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) plans to raise money from the sale of its plots and commercial buildings. As many as 55 companies are expected to go public in the coming months.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday a review of 1 million claims for the Employee Retention Credit representing $86 billion shows the “vast majority” are at risk of being improper

Paris Fashion Week — one of the strongest in seasons. Here are some highlights of Thursday's spring 2025 menswear shows: Miyake takes flight The breathtaking menswear displays in the show “Up, Up, and Away" featured couture-like poetry: seemingly weightless textiles that billowed like parachutes or kites. The garments seemed ready for flight.

Admiral Janeway to the Delta Quadrant. The new season premieres on Netflix on July 1.

Kylie Jenner broke down and wept profusely. In the episode of 'The Kardashians' that was aired on Thursday, June 20, she said that it is a miracle that she still has confidence and can still look in the mirror and think that she is pretty. When Kendall Jenner asked how she was doing after they hadn’t seen each other in a while, she broke down, reports 'Page Six'. She said in the show that she just feels like after Fashion Week in October 2023 there was this picture, which for the first time she was like, ‘We are not going to wear a lot of makeup.’ «So when I’m wearing too much makeup [I get told], ‘You’re wearing too much makeup,:, she said. Making her heartfelt revelations, Kylie Jenner said that when she is not wearing a lot of makeup and someone catches her in a weird light. She added, „You can look at pictures when I was 13 and I just have these lines but I have had them since I was a child.”

TikTok is currently rooting for Taylor Swift's new Eras Tour shows, the upcoming one being held in London. Now, they have unveiled a very interactive feature on Taylor Swift which is a first-of-its-kind, focused on her massively popular Eras Tour shows.

Donald Sutherland, the gravelly-voiced Canadian actor who graced both TV and movie screens, passed away Thursday in Miami from a long illness. He was 88.

The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old growth forests on federal lands that are increasingly threatened by climate change

Mansion Global host Katrina Campins discusses the state of the housing market on Making Money.

Canadian Real Estate Association said this week, even as some standout markets such as Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon continue to see activity tick up.Even if buyers aren’t showing up in most Canadian cities, sellers certainly are. At the start of this month, there were roughly 175,000 active property listings across Canada, up 28.4 per cent year-over-year, according to CREA.Across the Greater Toronto Area, there are some 24,000 units including condos and detached homes up for sale — a 14-year high, according to an analysis by Hanif Bayat at Wowa.ca.Active listings for condo units in Toronto are at or near record highs right now, notes John Pasalis, president of Realosophy Realty.But that glut of supply comes as buyers remain priced out of the market.

Home loan borrowing costs eased again this week as the average rate on a 30-year mortgage declined to its lowest level since early April

Authorities in Chile say at least two rail workers were killed and nine others injured Thursday when a freight train collided head-on with another train on a test run just outside the capital of Chile

An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar

Climate change is driving dangerous heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere this week and will continue to deliver dangerous weather for decades to come, research shows. «It is a worldwide heat wave that we are now suffering. That puts the heat under our decisions,» said Christiana Figueres, a former U.N. climate agency chief. Here's how climate change is pushing heat to new extremes.