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‘Mornings with Maria’ panelists react to December’s better-than-expected jobs report, detailing its expected impact on the labor market and U.S. economy.

Orry aka Orhan Awatramani appeared unexpectedly poignant on the grand finale of ‘Koffee With Karan Season 8’. In a candid chat with director-producer and talk show host Karan Johar on the final episode of his iconic talk show, the Internet sensation opened up about the pitfalls of fame and how he is busy plotting his own downfall. The socialite also gave the audience a sneak peek to his ‘Orry office.’ When asked by the host if he was aware how fickle fame can be, Orry said that he was acutely aware of the unsaid tragedy of popularity and how fleeting it can be.

Amazon and Costco have been pushed to second and third place respectively as the most preferred grocery stores of Americans. In a survey conducted by the Retailer Preference Index (RPI), H-E-B has emerged as the top choice for shoppers in the US. They have won this coveted position the third time, beating big names like online giant Amazon and smaller stores like Trader Joe's. With 380 stores in Texas and Mexico, H-E-B made $38.9 billion and were named one of «America's Largest Private Companies» by Forbes in 2022. They were also named Retailer of the Year in 2010 and are one of the «Top 75 North American Food Retailers.»

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. single-family homebuilding dropped sharply in December after a string of strong gains, but new construction remains underpinned by a shortage of previously owned houses for sale.

Stocks retreated and bond yields climbed on speculation the Federal Reserve will be in no rush to cut interest rates as the economy shows signs of resilience.

Also read-Market strategy in 2024: Kotak Institutional lists 3 key challenges investors will face this year The Flu season has not been strong this year in the US and hence the companies as Lupin , Zydus Lifesciences that reap maximum benefits, may not see the Flu led gains this year. Nevertheless their growth momentum may still remain strong.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since late 2022, suggesting job growth likely remained solid in January.

Rapper Kanye West has surprised both his fans and detractors. The 46-year-old rapper took to his Instagram story Wednesday to flaunt his new metallic dentures. The 'Daily Mail' has reported that the dentures are worth a hefty $850,000. In another post, the singer compared his new look to the James Bond villain, Jaws, who had a mouth of metal. Jaws appeared in 1977’s 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 1979's 'Moonraker'.

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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares jumped nearly 2% in early New York trading on Thursday after Bank of America analysts raised the stock’s rating to Buy from Neutral.

Pran Pratishtha' ceremony at Ayodhya Ram Mandir, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday launched a dedicated webpage to provide weather-related information for the holy city and other important nearby areas. The webpage (https://mausam.imd.gov.in/ayodhya/) shows weather information on temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind patterns for seven days starting January 18 in major languages spoken across the globe including Hindi, English, Urdu, Chinese, French, and Spanish. The webpage not only provides weather-related information for Ayodhya, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Lucknow, New Delhi and Mankapur along with other important places but also provides a seven-day forecast of sunrise and sunset timings in both Hindi and English.

The unstoppable increase in homebuyers’ appetite for luxury residences firmly indicates that the demand for different categories of luxury properties has kept growing, showing no signs of tail-off. Unlike affordable housing, luxury housing has not witnessed a dry spell and enjoyed a phenomenal consumer demand in pre- and post-pandemic periods.

Investing.com — The U.S. dollar slipped lower during early European trading Thursday, but remained near a one-month high after robust U.S. retail sales data spurred more doubts over early rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

South Indian Bank surged by 12.5%, reaching a new 52-week high of ₹31.9 apiece, following the release of the bank's Q3FY24 numbers. Notably, the stock surpassed the ₹30 mark for the first time in six years. The bank posted a 197% increase in its standalone net profit to ₹305 crore in Q3FY24 as compared to a net profit of ₹102.75 crore in the same period last year.

Recent research by Google DeepMind has revealed a surprising intersection between human and machine vision, particularly in their susceptibility to adversarial images. Adversarial images are digital images subtly altered to deceive AI models, making them misclassify the image contents. For example, a vase could be misclassified as a cat by the AI​​.

Reliance Industries will post its quarterly earnings report card on Friday. The expectations from Reliance Industries' consolidated December quarter performance remains a mixed bag with the Oil to Chemical (O2C) segment likely to see some pressure. The consumer-oriented retail and Jio (telecom segment) may see a steady quarter, and partially offset the weakness in Oil to Chemicals business.

growth in earnings for the quarter ended December. However, the growth in both topline and bottomline is expected to be in single digits because of a weak show by the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business. Meanwhile, numbers across parameters are expected to drop sequentially mainly because of the O2C vertical. Consolidated revenue of RIL is likely to rise 5% YoY to Rs 2.31 lakh crore, but fall about 2% sequentially, according to the average of estimates given by nine brokerage firms. Consolidated net profit is expected to grow 9.3% YoY to Rs 17,257 crore, but drop nearly 1% sequentially. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization or EBITDA is expected to increase 4% YoY to Rs 40,030 crore, but fall sharply by 11% sequentially. The toy-to-telecom conglomerate is scheduled to release its earnings after market hours on Friday.

HUL) is expected to report muted numbers for the quarter ended December in the backdrop of weak volume growth, price cuts, and rising advertising costs. India’s bellwether in the fast-moving consumer goods sector is expected to report a 6% year-on-year (YoY) growth in net profit to Rs 2,653 crore, on the back of a moderate 1% growth in revenue to Rs 15,378 crore, the average of estimates given by 13 brokerages showed. Sequentially, the bottomline is seen falling 2.4%, while the topline growing at a moderate 0.7%.

Pidilite Industries Ltd. traded 1.63 per cent down at Rs 2715.2 at 12:35PM (IST) on Thursday, even as BSE benchmark Sensex dropped 259.38 points to 71241.38. The stock had closed at Rs 2760.3 in the previous session.

Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council. During December 2023, the drop was to the tune of 9.04% to USD 2.19 billion as compared to USD 2.4 billion in December 2022. The overall import of gems and jewellery too has declined by 22.43% Y-o-Y, to USD 15.59 billion from USD 20 billion during April- December of FY24 as compared to the same period of FY23 and 7.58% to USD 2.09 billion, as compared to December 2022.