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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Buy or sell stocks: After witnessing a massive upside move on Thursday, the Indian stock market consolidated on Friday and closed lower. However, banking stocks witnessed a decent demand throughout the session.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The odds-on bet across financial markets globally is on a rate cut this week by the US Federal Reserve, now that inflation there looks closer to its 2% target and weak job growth is in focus. A rate reduction would mark a reversal of the central bank’s hiking spree that elevated America’s policy rate from 0-0.25% in early 2022 to 5.25-5% by mid-2023 to quell an outbreak of inflation it mistook as transitory.

BEIJING — China's persistent consumption slowdown traces back to the country's real estate slump, and its deep ties to local government finances — and debt.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Hostile takeovers in India just got a fillip from the country’s competition watchdog.

The voracious appetite among MF investors is evident in the flows pouring into funds. Gross money invested via systematic investment plans (SIPs) surged to an all-time high of Rs.23,547 crore in August. The total number of SIP accounts reached 9.61 crore, while the folio count surpassed 20 crore. The share of equity funds in total AUM now constitutes 62% of the industry’s AUM—an all time high—showing a growing appetite for risk. Individual share in total AUM has grown from 54.9% to 63.2%. However, investors are not simply putting more money in the existing funds in their baskets. They are adding new funds in a bid to boost their returns. This is a familiar story in every bull market. As fund performance kicks into higher gear and gets entrenched, investors start getting adventurous. They start fishing for bigger opportunities for outsized return. Recent table-toppers are the obvious targets for most. A recent study by ICICIdirect.com shows that investors have been piling on schemes that have topped the charts in the past three years.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Many organizations encourage competition between internal teams, believing it will spark innovation and drive performance. The trouble is, what actually happens is the opposite: Internal competition often stifles innovation.

A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels

climate change accelerates, the urgency grows around two key threats—indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from inefficient air-conditioning and refrigeration appliances powered by fossil fuel-based electricity, and direct GHG emissions from harmful refrigerants in these systems. Cooling is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity in our rapidly warming world.

Manipur Police on Sunday expressed concern over the use of sophisticated weapons to target security personnel during protests and urged demonstrators to refrain from employing such means to make their point. Addressing reporters, DIG (Range 1) N Herojit Singh said, «We want to remind the public that the police department's duty is to maintain law and order and to respond to armed attacks by miscreants. We have sustained multiple casualties during these challenging times.» Highlighting the shift in protest tactics, the DIG said, «In recent agitations, traditional forms of protests have been replaced with lethal methods targeting security forces. Demonstrators have engaged in stone pelting, shooting iron pieces from slingshots, firing tear gas shells, and using automatic firearms.» «We have evidence of automatic weapons being fired during protests. At Khabeisoi, firing from automatic weapons injured an officer in-charge of Imphal East Commando and another personnel recently. In Kakwa, Imphal West district, firing from automatic weapons left marks on our vehicles,» he claimed.

Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah on Sunday targeted the BJP-led coalition government, saying those who once raised «Pakistan Zindabad» slogans now align with the party. Replying to allegations that the unrest in Kashmir was a result of the 1987 election rigging, Dr Farooq Abdullah replied, «We didn't create separatists; Pakistan did.» He further added, «Those who previously raised slogans like 'Pakistan Zindabad' have now aligned themselves with the BJP.»

Nitesh Rane on Thursday asked real estate brokers to take an oath that they would not deal with non-Hindus and to check Aadhaar cards before making any property deals. Rane was addressing a gathering as part of his visit to a Ganesh pandal puja. After Rane's remark, the AIMIM started protests and said that the remarks were against the secular fabric of the country and his words were against the Constitution.

Positive global cues, along with strong FII flows, contributed to a sharp 2% rally in the Nifty last week, bringing it to 25,356. The index has gained approximately 36% since breaking out around the 18,600 level.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on «ending reservation», Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday said such comments by a person holding a constitutional post shows «anti-constitutional mindset». Addressing a public event in Mumbai, Dhankhar also said that awareness about India's Constitution is highly needed as some people have forgotten its soul. «A person from a constitutional post saying on a foreign land that reservation should be ended underscores the same anti-constitutional mindset. The baton of prejudices against reservation has been handed over. It is the same old anti-constitutional mindset,» he said. «Reservation is not against meritocracy, but it is the soul of the country and the Constitution. It is an affirmative action and not negative. It is not depriving someone of opportunity but handholding those who are pillars of strength of the society,» the vice president said.

Receding inflation and growing economic concerns prompted the European Central Bank to lower interest rates a quarter point for the second time this year. Clues on the timing of the next cut were in short supply on Thursday, with President Christine Lagarde and colleagues awaiting data on how drastically the economy is deteriorating — and how that will shift inflation. In the US, an unexpected pickup in underlying inflation reduced odds of a bigger rate cut from Federal Reserve policymakers this coming week.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The pull-up is the ultimate closed-chain exercise in the gym for the upper body. One might master pushups and feel like they’ve hit a plateau, but the pull-up will remain as challenging as ever.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The flapping of a butterfly’s wings can cause a typhoon halfway across the world. That seemingly outlandish notion gave rise to the Butterfly Effect, the idea that tiny events can trigger huge, nonlinear impacts.

Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.’s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles “NoName057” and “RipperSec” on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News.

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Springfield, Ohio, has been dealing with bomb threats for two straight days after the city was catapulted into the international spotlight on Tuesday when former president Donald Trump pushed a narrative, without evidence, about Haitian immigrants during the presidential debate with Vice-President Kamala Harris.

Vice President Kamala Harris said in Tuesday’s debate that the Biden-Harris administration has overseen “the largest increase in domestic oil production in history″ and warned the U_S_ “cannot over rely on foreign oil."

Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.'s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles "NoName057" and «RipperSec» on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News. Government websites and trading functioned normally on Friday. DDoS attacks are intended to overload systems rather than steal valuable information, and the stock exchange restored normal operations within a half-hour on Thursday. But the incident exposes the potential vulnerability of computing platforms in Taiwan, the world's biggest producer of advanced semiconductors and a potential flashpoint in a US-China conflict.