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Beaming at every turn, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un toured the jewels of Russia’s military industries in September. A guest of President Vladimir Putin, he gawked at the plant making Su-35 jet fighters, inspected a Russian Navy frigate and examined the Kinzhal missiles at the Vostochny spaceport. Soon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year.

Jubilant Foodworks Ltd. gained 2.22 per cent to Rs 577.55 at 10:05AM (IST) in Friday's trade. The scrip has hit a high of Rs 578.55 and low of Rs 565.9 so far during the session.

₹314.40 apiece following the company's 2023 production update. In a filing to the exchange on Thursday, the company announced that it had achieved a production of over 16 lakh tonnes in the current calendar year so far, marking another significant milestone for MOIL. This production figure represents a remarkable 26% increase compared to the previous record set in 2019.

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. traded 2.13 per cent up at Rs 1256.05 on Friday at around 10:20AM (IST), while the benchmark BSE Sensex advanced 248.31 points to 71113.41. As many as 11,163 shares changed hands on the counter with a total value of Rs 1.39 crore.

Investors in Adani stocks, who were used to making astonishing returns by betting on Gautam Adani's business acumen, were in for a rude shock in 2023 when the combined market capitalisation of the conglomerate fell by around Rs 6 lakh crore because of the Hindenburg controversy. At the end of 2022, the total market value of all 10 listed Adani companies was Rs 19.6 lakh crore which has now fallen down to Rs 13.6 lakh crore. While many Adani stocks have managed to recoup a part of their Hindenburg-led losses, Adani Total Gas remains 74% down on a year-to-date (YTD) basis. The stock, which had gone close enough to nearly touch the Rs 4,000-mark is now struggling to inch above the Rs 1,000 mark. Shares of Adani Energy Solutions are also down 61% YTD.

Residential sales in the first nine months of 2023 reached 196,227 units, which is 91% of the total sales in 2022. Interestingly, residential sales broke all records with average quarterly sales of over 65,000 units till the third quarter of 2023.

Audio streaming platform Pocket FM's listener community is said to have surpassed 130 million globally, with over 75 billion minutes of content being streamed in 2023. As per Pocket FM's 'Rewind2023: How India Got Entertained This Year' report, the platform had more than 100,000 hours of content, with users spending over 115 minutes daily.

new-age companies that use technology to do things differently and better, and a soaring stock market. The latest ET 500 rankings, the definitive list of the biggest publicly traded companies operating in the world’s fastest-growing economy, reflect the changing face of India Inc. At the aggregate level, the incumbent companies show manageable debt and improving ability to service it, adequate equity and healthy top-line and bottomline growth.

first-day earnings of ‘Dunki’, the much-awaited Shah Rukh Khan-starrer have been unexpectedly modest. According to a report by the Indian box-office tracking portalSacnilk.com, the Rajkumar Hirani directorial collected about Rs 30 crore on its opening day. Although many cities in North India showed a lukewarm response to the movie, ‘Dunki’ performed well in the city of Hyderabad. Additionally, the film was met with an enthusiastic response in regions such as Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and West Bengal. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Box Office Worldwide shared the first-day collections of the movie (Rs 31-33 crore) and called it a “fantastic” figure for a social comedy-drama genre. “#Dunki is taking a solid opening of 31.5-33 cr on day 1, which is FANTASTIC for this social drama genre and given a mid-week release! There are reports of phenomenal audience response from cinemas, like all Hirani films this one is also going to trend strongly from here,” reads the post. ‘Dunki’s lukewarm first-day collections (in comparison to SRK’s previous releases ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’, led detractors to troll the superstar and Hirani on X. The words “SRK’s Disaster Donkey’ trended on the microblogging platform. “#Dunki is Raju Hirani's Weakest film, It's a Borefest of Epic Proportions, Shahrukh's acting and accent is Cartoonish, You will be scrolling your mobiles in the 2nd Half!” wrote one X user.

Amazon has significantly reduced the price of its Prime Lite membership, possibly in an effort to further widen the gap between the ad-supported subscription and the regular Prime membership. The Amazon Prime Lite membership is now available in India for an annual price of ₹799 as compared to the original launch price of ₹999.

Catch Live Market Updates here The domestic equity market ended higher on Thursday amid across-the-board buying as investors remained upbeat on India’s growth prospects. The Sensex ended 358.79 points, or 0.51%, higher at 70,865.10, while the Nifty 50 gained 104.90 points, or 0.50%, to settle at 21,255.05. “Market is likely to move in a range as investor participation is expected to gradually decline globally ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services.

In a setback this week for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court of Colorado ordered his name struck off the ballot in the American state’s primary polls for his Republican party to pick its candidate for next year’s presidential election. This has cast a shadow on the candidacy of the former White House occupant, who was held ineligible for federal office under the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Brought in after the US Civil War, its Section 3 bars from such positions people who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but “engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country or gave “aid or comfort" to its enemies.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that Northern Gaza has no more functioning hospitals, The New York Times reported. The WHO Director-General described scenes of horror witnessed by aid workers in the ruins of two partially destroyed medical facilities.

Singapore jumped to 965 in the past week, up from 763 the previous week. The number of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) went up from 23 to 32 in the same period. These are the highest numbers of new weekly hospitalisation and ICU admission for COVID-19 patients in 2023, TODAY newspaper reported on Thursday.

government’s policies to promote domestic manufacturing and create an ecosystem for indigenous defence procurement as well as green energy have helped energise shares of public sector undertakings (PSUs). A rush to own PSU stocks that have reported earnings growth above the benchmark index growth has resulted in their rerating. The share of government-owned companies in India’s total market capitalisation rose to nearly 10% in November from a low of 5% in 2020.

drones bore down on the city of Kyiv early on Friday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reporting strikes on widely separated residential districts. It was the sixth drone attack on the capital this month. Two people were injured. Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said a drone had hit a block of flats in the Solomyanskyi district, south of the city centre, triggering a fire on the upper floors that was quickly brought under control. Emergency services, also writing on Telegram, said several apartments were damaged on the 24th, 25th and 26th storeys of the building.

RBI) foreign exchange reserves has dropped into negative territory after three years while the central bank seeks to balance the need for headline external buffers with liquidity drainage in a cash-strapped banking system. The RBI's net outstanding forward book — it represents proprietary dollar sales or purchases for a future date — turned negative in October. Mint Road is obligated to sell $14.6 billion dollars, latest data showed.

Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran to ensure full transparency about company financials and the latest state of affairs at the edtech firm at its annual general meeting, according to people present at the meeting. Investors made it clear that full clarity on what is going on in the company needed to be communicated to the shareholders and only with this transparency, trust could be built for them to support the firm in any manner going forward, according to an investor.

«Though the market saw profit booking of late, the underlying sentiments remain positive given robust micro and macro domestic factors. Further the market is likely to move in a range as investor participation is expected to gradually decline globally ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS

AMFI)'s small-cap stock classification formula is likely to face challenges in the upcoming semi-annual reclassification, especially given the significant uptick in stock prices and the listing of new companies. The market capitalisation of stocks in the small-cap category, as per the existing formula, surpasses $3 billion (₹25,000 crore), deviating from the global average range of $300 million to $2 billion, said a report by ICICI Securities. «As the economy expands along with more new listings in the large- and mid-cap space, the 251st ranked stock's market cap (upper threshold for small-caps) will continue to expand and may not conform to global standards,» said a note by ICICI Securities. «Globally, small-caps are classified as stocks within the market cap range of $300 million to $2 billion irrespective of their market cap rank.» The broking firm suggests that the current methodology of the rank-based approach may need to transition to a fixed interval method based on judgment at some point in time. At present, certain stocks featured in AMFI's small-cap lists, such as Mazagon Dock, Suzlon Energy, Lloyds Metals, SJVN, and Kalyan Jewellers, among others, exhibit a market capitalisation ranging from ₹24,500 to ₹41,800 crore.

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