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When Robert Habeck, co-leader of the Green party and the economy tsar in Germany’s ruling coalition, floated a bill last spring that mandated replacing gas and oil boilers with cleaner heat pumps, he got more heat than he bargained for. Tabloids screamed his “heat hammer" would push millions into debt. Whipped-up fury against “Green fascism" boosted ratings for the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Bank of India (RBI) began on Wednesday, December 6. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das will disclose the decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) around 10 am on Friday, December 8. There is widespread anticipation of rates staying as it is after the RBI MPC meeting even as inflation has eased significantly and economic growth remains strong.

MCX February gold futures were trading at Rs 62,245 at the opening time, up Rs 60 or 0.10% from Tuesday's closing price. Meanwhile, the March Silver futures were trading at Rs 75,403 per kg, higher by Rs 124 or 0.60%.

By Stella Qiu

Day trading guide for today: Following buying in frontline stocks on end of rate hike cycle buzz, Indian stock market ended higher for sixth straight session on Tuesday. Participatory rally extended for yet another session on Tuesday, which helped key benchmark indices and broad market indices to hit new life-time high on the previous session. Nifty 50 index climbed to a new peak of 20,864 levels, BSE Sensex touched new life-time high of 69,381 whereas Bank Nifty index hit a new high of 47,230.

A new study in the US suggests some market players placed bets in anticipation of Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israeli targets in which more than 1,200 people were killed. While it’s unsettling to contemplate profits made off terror, could trading patterns serve as intelligence inputs for agencies tasked with thwarting such attacks? If market participants have information about what’s going to happen, no matter how few they are, it might be useful to watch out for suspicious activity. But linking any market trades to foreknowledge of violence is easier said than done.

Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the step after warning Israel last week that President Joe Biden's administration would be taking action over the attacks. Blinken did not announce individual visa bans, but department spokesman Matthew Miller said the bans would be implemented starting Tuesday and would cover «dozens» of settlers and their families, with more to come if the settler violence continued. He wouldn't give a number and refused to identify any of those targeted due to confidentiality reasons. The decision comes at a sensitive moment in U.S.-Israeli relations.

El-Erian said the Fed may well tolerate higher inflation instead of pushing the economy into recession to hit its 2% target. But he also said investors are over-reacting by pricing in sharp rate cuts. Market prices have swung wildly in recent days as traders bet on a drop in borrowing costs amid signs that inflation is falling and comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell that the actions taken so far have pushed policy «well into restrictive territory.» Speaking to Bloomberg Radio on Tuesday, El-Erian warned that the Fed needs to recover its credibility on forward guidance with the markets or the recent «tremendous loosening of financial conditions» will undermine its policy.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Following strong global market sentiments on end of rate hike cycle buzz, Indian stock market ended higher for sixth straight session on Tuesday. Nifty 50 index climbed to a new peak of 20,864 levels, BSE Sensex touched new life-time high of 69,381 whereas Bank Nifty index hit a new high of 47,230.

Mint reported that Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s daughter Harshita became a victim of an online scam. She tried to sell an old sofa set at an online second-hand marketplace but was, instead, duped at ₹34,000. Several such cases have come to the fore of late.

Nirmala Sitharaman will rise up in the Lok Sabha to present the Union Budget 2024-25. It will be an interim Budget as the elections for the Lok Sabha are due early next year. The full Budget for FY25 will be presented after the formation of the new government following the general elections.

Navadhan has raised $5 million (Rs 40 crore) in its pre-series A round of funding led by Prime Venture Partners. Existing investors Gemba Capital and Varanium NexGen Fintech Fund also participated in the round. Founded in 2019 by senior financial services and banking executives, the Mumbai-based company had previously raised around $2.8 million over two seed rounds.

Renewable energy companies have been among the hot investment themes on Dalal Street in the past six months as the government's thrust to boost clean power capacities is driving investor appetite in the sector. Shares of sectoral players such as Suzlon Energy, SJVN, NHPC, and NTPC, among others, surged between 25% and 225% in this period but analysts said investors must tone down their expectations of lofty returns from here on. The government's target to achieve 500 GW of renewable energy generation by 2030 is making market participants positive about these firms.

CO2) emissions from fossil fuels are projected to increase by 1.1% to reach record levels of 36.8 billion tonnes this year from 2022 with emissions in India being estimated to increase by 8.2% and in China by 4% whereas it may decline by 7.4% in the EU and 3% in the USA during the same period, said a Global Carbon Budget report. The analysis shows that the increase in fossil emissions is driven mainly by China and only to a smaller degree by India which still has clear development needs to overcome. Released on the sideline of the UN climate conference (COP28) on Tuesday, the report underlined that there is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed 1.5 degree celsius (Paris Agreement warming limit threshold) «consistently» in about seven years at the current emissions level. «It now looks inevitable we will overshoot the 1.5 degree C target of the Paris Agreement, and leaders meeting at COP28 will have to agree to rapid cuts in fossil fuel emissions even to keep the 2 degree C target alive,» said Pierre Friedlingstein of Exeter's Global Systems Institute, who led the study.

WASHINGTON : The US State Department will impose visa bans against individuals involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the occupied West Bank, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Tuesday announcing a new visa restriction policy. The restrictions will target those who have committed acts of violence or taken other actions that restrict civilians' access to essential services and basic necessities and may also apply to those individuals' family members, Blinken said. President Joe Biden and other senior U.S.

The country's installed power generation capacity from non-fossil source is 186.46 gigawatt (GW), which is 43.82 per cent of its total installed capacity, the minister for new and renewable energy said. «India is on track for achieving its target of having 50 per cent of its installed source generation capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030,» Singh, who also holds the portfolio of Power Minister said.

Apple's iPhone business in India will have no impact from the reported factory closure in Chennai due to the extreme weather situation in Chennai owing to cyclone Michaung, said industry executives close to the company. They said Apple ensures there are enough buffer stocks of iPhones in distribution to deal with such situations. «Apple does not work in a just-in-time inventory model, where a day of downtime impacts supplies. They ensure there is enough stock to tide over a week-long disruption,» said one of the executives, who did not wish to be identified. The executives said Apple treats worker safety as the top priority in such situations and that this has been communicated to its suppliers in the cyclone-affected area. Production was yet to resume at Foxconn and Pegatron facilities in Sriperumbudur near Chennai on Tuesday, despite an improvement in weather, after being halted following heavy rains impacting day-to-day life in the coastal city and its outskirts. Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn and Pegatron are two of Apple's key local assemblers of iPhones and are part of the government's production-linked incentive scheme.

Human rights lawyers have gone to court in the Netherlands to call for a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel that are being used in attacks on Gaza

Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit

By Patrick Wingrove and Bhanvi Satija