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China's blue-chip share index closed at its lowest level in four-and-a-half years on Monday, with investors dumping tech sector stocks and others as global market jitters compounded lingering worries over domestic economic health. The CSI300 Index fell 1% to its lowest closing level since February 2019.

As the Bitcoin market continues its unpredictable journey, notable figures and events hint at potential future movements. Currently trading at $30,377, Bitcoin is witnessing a modest rise of 1.50% this Monday. 

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Former Woolworths boss Roger Corbett has called on Peter Hearl, chairman of Dan Murphy’s parent, Endeavour Group, to step aside, even if activist nominee Bill Wavish fails to get elected at a contested annual meeting next week.

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As luxury transcends beyond homes, commercial real estate in India is witnessing a transformative wave. While opulent residential properties have always been associated with the term ‘luxury’, a new trend is emerging – the expansion of luxury into commercial spaces. The rise of high-end offices reflects a paradigm shift in how businesses view their workplaces and the environments they thrive in. These spaces combine functionality, aesthetics, and technology to create immersive environments that foster growth, innovation, and well-being. Additionally, India’s economic resiliency, supportive government policies, and improving business environment ensure its position as an attractive market for global investors in the long run.

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employee experience (EX) is also an important element. Improving EX is a key goal for C-Suite executives, according to a report. The reasons for this focus ranged from enhanced employee satisfaction, improved productivity, more speed in business, higher retention and improved automation, said NTT’s recent 2023 Global Employee Experience Trends Report. It delved into the impact workplace trends like hybrid work and artificial intelligence (AI) have on employee experience strategies and business performance. The IT services provider’s report underscored that EX focused on technologies that can enable and empower employees and drive efficiency, including through collaboration and mobility tools.

Gaza with air strikes early on Monday and its aircraft struck southern Lebanon overnight, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his top generals and his war cabinet to assess the escalating conflict. Israel's attacks concentrated on the Gaza Strip's centre and north, Palestinian media reported. A strike on a house near the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killed several Palestinians and wounded others, according to media reports.

Day trading guide for stock market today: On account of weak global market sentiments, Indian stock market extended sell off for yet another session on Friday last week. Nifty 50 index fell 82 points and closed at 19,542 levels, 30-stock index BSE Sensex corrected 231 points and ended at 65,397 mark whereas Bank Nifty index finished 31 points lower at 43,723 levels.

bond market. The disparate positioning of various dynamic bond funds, which are considered a proxy for the fund house’s fixed income stance, indicates that fund managers are not aligned on interest rates. The positioning of dynamic bond funds is best explained by the portfolio duration or average maturity.

money managers in Europe say traders are wrong to bet the European Central Bank is done hiking interest rates. As a net energy importer, the region is particularly exposed to rising prices if the crisis in the Middle East escalates, and markets are underestimating the possibility of additional tightening in response, according to Legal & General Investment Management, Vanguard Asset Management and Robeco Groep. That leaves short-maturity government bonds particularly vulnerable. The view clashes with swaps pricing that shows a pause from the ECB virtually baked in this week — and only a 10% chance of a 25 basis-point hike at a subsequent meeting.

MUMBAI : The Bengaluru twins Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd, which together hired 208,000 engineering graduates in the past three years, have said they don’t plan to go to the campuses this year. This implies that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd, which hired 55% of the half a million engineering graduates between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2023, will be the only ones among the top four IT companies to hire from colleges this year. According to two analysts, this split in campus hiring strategies among the country’s Big Four IT services firms—a first in more than two decades—could serve as a pointer to investors looking to separate the leaders from the laggards.

NEW DELHI : A US government office is checking whether foreign banks operating in the US conformed to the G7 price cap of $60 a barrel for Russian oil, a person aware of the matter said. The US treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sought details of Russian oil purchases by including those by Indian entities in the last few months, the person said on condition of anonymity. Indian banks operating in the US include State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda and Bank of India.

Kotak Mahindra Bank, may have proved his mettle on the global stage building retail businesses, but when it comes to his new role, market watchers will closely scrutinise his strategy for sustaining profitability margins while accelerating growth. Vaswani's challenges as the CEO of the country's fourth largest bank with a market value of ₹3.51 lakh crore would include ensuring management stability, building scale in commercial banking, maintaining margins while growing the balance sheet, and preserving a culture built on conservatism rather than aggressive growth, industry watchers said. Kotak Mahindra Bank's existing margins are the highest in the sector at 5.2%. «The market would like to see the new CEO further accelerate growth, increase market share, grow balance sheet and maintain profitability,» said Suresh Ganapathy, head of financial services research at Macquarie. «The market would want a little bit more acceleration on the retail deposit. Over the last 12 months, incrementally 50% of the CASA and term deposits have come above ₹5 crore.

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war mushrooming into a wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with the U.S. sending more military assets to the region as Israel pummelled Gaza anew and deadly clashes along its border with Lebanon intensified. Gaza's Health Ministry said 266 Palestinians, including 117 children, had been killed by Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours in the enclave, to which Israel laid «total siege» after a deadly mass infiltration into Israel by Hamas gunmen on Oct. 7. In neighbouring Syria — where Hamas's main regional backer Iran has a military presence — Israeli missiles hit Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Sunday, putting both out of service and killing two workers, Syrian state media said. Along Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Iran-backed Hezbollah group has clashed with Israeli forces in support of Hamas in the deadliest escalation of frontier violence since an Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006. Hezbollah said four fighters were killed in heavy exchanges of fire on Sunday and another died of wounds sustained earlier, raising to 24 the number of its members killed since Oct. 7.

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