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With a nudge from his wife, Heather, ARL commissioner Peter Beattie will be all-in with the Brisbane Broncos when they square off against the Penrith Panthers in the NRL grand final on Sunday.

The firm also said it has entered into a long-term power-purchase agreement (PPA) with GRIDCO for 400 megawatts on September 28, 2023. “With this, the entire power of 2400 MW has been tied up on a long-term basis with Tamil Nadu- TANGEDCO (1500 MW), Puducherry- PED (100 MW), Kerala- KSEBL (400 MW) and Odisha- GRIDCO (400 MW),” the company said in an exchange filing. At 11.01 a.m., the scrip was trading 3.2% at Rs 132.4 on BSE.

Indian Hotels Company Ltd. traded 1.11 per cent up at Rs 409.75 at 11:16AM (IST) on Friday, even as BSE benchmark Sensex gained 233.69 points to 65742.01. The scrip had closed at Rs 405.25 in the previous session.

Kempegowda International Airport on Friday due to the statewide bandh called by Kannada Okkoota' to oppose the release of water to Tamil Nadu received a good response in Bengaluru and other southern parts “44 flights including 22 arrivals and 22 departures have been cancelled today,” said PRO, Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru. On Thursday, the Bengaluru Aiport issued an advisory saying, “We anticipate disruption in transport services. Passengers are advised to plan their travel to and from the Airport accordingly.

Spotify explores full-length music videos to bolster competition against YouTube and TikTok: Report The new transcription feature will be available for free and premium users on the Spotify app and can be accessed by clicking on the read-along section below the podcast player and following along on the full screen. In a blog post about the new feature, Spotify wrote, “We’re launching auto-generated and time-synced transcripts to more creators and shows so you can read along with an episode, making the transcripts more visually and textually accessible.

shut down the government—and once again the fight is a costly addition to the country’s economic problems. If Congress and the Biden administration do not strike a deal to fund the federal government, from October 1st it may need to furlough employees and freeze non-essential payments. House Republicans cannot even agree among themselves about what spending cuts to demand of the Senate and the White House, with hardliners seeking to sabotage a bipartisan deal struck in the summer.

Ajay Bagga, market expert, says “PSU banks are still looking quite good. Talking about valuations, I would say India is quite moderately valued. The problem is the global macro. These higher for longer riskoff is affecting us. We have seen about six-seven weeks of FII outflows on a net basis. So that is a problem. It is a constraint on our market's ability to rise fast. But the domestic funds that are coming in, are providing a good support and those should win through.” Are you optimistic about the October series looking at the moving pieces? We are waiting for a couple of events to pass through. One is, of course, the looming US shutdown. Historically, it has not had much of an impact but the reports are that this could last for anything like a couple of weeks to four weeks. In 2018-2019, it went on for six weeks and it had a minor impact on the GDP. So let us get that through, especially given Monday is a holiday in India, we can wait that out. The other two concerns are: a)Chinese property loans that are standing at about 60 trillion Yuan. It is not a new problem, it is a three years old problem but the Chinese government has not been able to resolve it and now the position is that even quality real estate developers like Country Garden are facing a lot of issues of liquidity. So eventually the rescue package will come from the Chinese government which will be a trigger for the markets so you can position for that.

exports received a much-need boost on account of free trade agreements (FTAs) with UAE and Australia with shipments to both nations surging 9% in April-August period of the financial year 2023-24 even as overall engineering exports slipped during the period under review. Engineering exports to UAE in April-August period of FY24 increased 9% year-on-year to $2.24 billion. In the same period, engineering exports to Australia also jumped 9% year-on-year and stood at $596.14 million as compared to $548.62 in April-August period of FY23. Overall engineering exports in April-August period of 2023-24 dropped 4.55% to $44.62 billion as against $46.74 billion in April-August period of 2022-23. Notably, engineering exports to Russia surged 178% year-on-year to $568.41 million in April-August period of FY24.

UltraTech Cement and Ambuja. Jefferies maintained a buy rating on L&T and CLSA recommended a Sell on Maruti Suzuki. We have collated a list of recommendations from top brokerage firms from ETNow and other sources: Macquarie on Cement: UltraTech Cement and Ambuja Cements Macquarie maintained an outperform rating on UltraTech Cement but raised the target price to Rs 9250 from Rs 9087. The global brokerage firm recommends outperform rating on Ambuja Cements but slashed the target price to Rs 480 from Rs 506 earlier. Macquarie maintained a neutral rating on Shree Cement but slashed the target price to Rs 25,149 from Rs 25,236 earlier. The global investment bank remained neutral on ACC but raised the target to Rs 2128 from Rs 1998 earlier.

Shooting: India's trio of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar clinched gold with a record-breaking total of 1893.7 points. Shooting: Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal continued India's shooting success with gold in the Men's 10m Air Pistol Team event. Shooting: Sift Kaur Samra set a world record to win gold.

Asian shares eased away from their lowest levels in 10 months but were on course to clock their worst quarterly performance in a year as worries over elevated interest rates dragged on sentiment, while the dollar held strong. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.59% higher but not far off the 10-month low it touched on Thursday.

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equity offerings have more than quadrupled in value this year, with investors encouraged by a surge in the Nikkei stock index to a 33-year high and signs that Japanese firms have begun to manage their capital more efficiently. A tough 2022 for equity capital markets globally resulted in a backlog of fundraising deals. Japan has also benefitted from far lower interest rates than other countries, billionaire Warren Buffett's lifting of stakes in Japanese firms and a re-allocation of funds away from China amid tensions between Beijing and Washington. Proceeds from initial public offerings and secondary share and convertible bond issues soared 343% to $23.7 billion in the first nine months of the year, LSEG data showed.

dollar held off a 10-month high on Friday as markets headed into the end of the quarter, giving the yen slightly more breathing room at the end of the week amid intervention concerns. The euro largely held its ground after rebounding overnight, but was still not far from its January low of $1.0482, which if broken would be the lowest since December. The dollar index, which tracks the currency against six other majors, was mostly flat in the Asian morning, on track for an 11th straight week of gains, after dipping as low as 106.020 overnight. The dollar gained on expectations that the U.S.

Oil prices fell in early trade on Friday after a recent rally, as profit-taking and expectations of supply increases by Russia and Saudi Arabia outweighed forecasts of positive demand from China during its Golden Week holiday. Brent November futures which expire on Friday were down 21 cents to $95.17 per barrel. Brent December futures lost 10 cents to trade at $93.00 per barrel at 0055 GMT. U.S.

Investors were also watching developments in Washington to see whether U.S. lawmakers could avert a government shutdown. The recent move in Treasury yields to 16-year highs has loomed over the stock market, which has pulled back after the Federal Reserve last week signaled a hawkish long-term outlook for interest rates. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield pausing at around 4.6% was bringing «relief,» said Matt Stucky, senior portfolio manager at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. «Markets in general the last few days have been really, really choppy,» Stucky said. «A little bit of a counter trend rally is to be expected after three or four pretty sharply negative days.» The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 116.07 points, or 0.35%, to 33,666.34, the S&P 500 gained 25.19 points, or 0.59%, to 4,299.70 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 108.43 points, or 0.83%, to 13,201.28. Among S&P 500 sectors, the communication services group gained 1.2%, while materials rose 1%.

boards of India Inc, it is still age and experience that rules the roost. The average age of boards is 58.67 years — falling marginally from 59.56 years over the last decade — at NSE-listed companies. This indicates that while there has been some infusion of younger blood, boards are still largely grey. Data compiled for ET by primeinfobase.com showed, however, that the number of younger directors has been rising steadily. As of the start of September, 13.89% directors were below the age of 45 (2,340 of total 16,837) across 2,107 NSE-listed companies. This compares to 10.72% (or 1,249 of 11,643 directors) across 1,481 companies as of March 31, 2014.

Day trading guide for today: After showing a sustainable upside bounce from the lows on Wednesday, Indian stock market witnessed sharp downward reversal on Thursday and closed in red territory. Nifty 50 index finished 192 points lower at 19,523 levels, BSE Sensex corrected 610 points and ended at 65,508 mark whereas Bank Nifty lost 287 points and closed at 44,300 levels.

domestic equity benchmarks settled around a percent lower amid volatility due to the monthly F&O expiry and dragged by weak global cues. Going ahead, the weakness in the market is likely to extend till the worry over the elevated oil prices and higher interest rates remains, posing a risk to the earnings growth trajectory. Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd Asian markets traded higher on Friday following overnight gains on Wall Street and release of key economic data in Japan.

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NEW DELHI : With demand for power soaring to record levels at the start of September, states headed for Assembly elections this year are ramping up efforts to increase coal and power purchases, even at high prices. Rajasthan Urja Vikas Nugam Ltd (RUVNL), the state-run power trading company of election-bound Rajasthan purchased 1,000 MW of power for ₹8.25-10 per kwh (unit) for September in short-term tenders, according to data from the DEEP portal. Similarly, for November, December 2023 and January 2024, RUVNL has tied up a total of 2,200 MW fo ₹6.25-7.2 per unit.