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Stocks fell as traders took risk off the table ahead of a raft of policy decisions this week from the US, the UK and Japan. 

Instacart, the leading US online grocery delivery company, is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the business at up to $9.3 billion. Pricing (22 million shares at between $26 and $28  is expected be set tomorrow, Goldman Sachs are advising). This marks a substantial decline from its peak valuation of $39 billion during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Instacart is aiming to raise approximately $616 million through the IPO, positioning it as one of the most significant IPOs of the year, potentially signaling a rebound in the US IPO market which has choked recently. This has been the longest lull in listings since the 2009 financial crisis. The IPO pricing is seen as conservative due to the current uncertain market conditions. Instacart’s strategic shift towards focusing on grocery technology over delivery is a key aspect of its IPO strategy, leveraging the consumer data it has gathered to enhance its offerings to grocery stores.

After a sharp stock rally this year on the back of resilient economic growth, investors now have a more negative outlook for risk assets in 2024, according to Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson.

The IRS plans to hire 3,700 employees to help fuel its efforts to target large corporations and complex partnerships.

Stock-market strategists who were largely wrong about this year’s rally are finally starting to come to face their mistake, raising year-end targets for the S&P 500 Index.

Evercore ISI has initiated coverage of EV battery start-up, QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) with an Outperform rating and has set their 12-month price target for the stock at $10.00. The US company became public through a SPAC in 2020 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Wealth Management titled "Navigator". According to the study, gold is presently trading at US$ 1960 and has fluctuated between US$ 1880 and US$ 1960 over the past month. Gold ETFs witnessed outflows over the previous two months, but in recent weeks, a small amount of inflows have started to trickle in, which has aided the price of the yellow metal, said Emkay Wealth in its report.The direction of the US Dollar and the trajectory of US interest rates are two fundamental variables that are intricately linked to the movement in gold.

speaking on inflation and when it will come down, Ashima Goyal said, "For a long time now, firms' inflation expectations have been around 4 percent. That means, despite cost shocks, their price increases do not exceed 4 percent." Ashima Goyal stressed that core inflation is softening and the strategy of inflation targeting is teaching those who determine prices to disregard temporary disruptions in the supply chain.

Ahead of the upcoming State Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal targeted Congress for rampant corruption at a rally in Rewa on Monday. Despite sharing the common umbrella of I.N.D.I.A. alliance, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal attacked the grand old party for promoting corruption in Delhi and Punjab.

OTTAWA — Economists are forecasting inflation reaccelerated to around four per cent last month, reversing previous progress made as gasoline prices push inflation higher.

India's net direct tax collection between April 1 and September 16, 2023, stood at Rs 8.65 lakh crore, up 23.5 per cent on an annualised basis, data showed on Monday. This tax collection by the government includes personal income tax of Rs 4.47 lakh crore and corporate tax of Rs 4.16 lakh crore, as per a Ministry of Finance statement.

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Reuters. Currently, ISRO training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort. The Gaganyaan mission is aimed at developing a human-habitable space capsule that will carry a three-member crew into an orbit of 400 km (250 miles) for three days, before returning to safety in a planned splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

Railway Board has stressed on the need for dedicated coal corridors to meet the growing power demand in the country. The majority of the coal flows from the states of Odisha, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh to the north, west, and southeast of the country, there is a need to develop tracks exclusively for coal movement on these routes, the report on estimation of coal transportation by Rail-2030 said. “It is necessary to create coal corridors in these routes in line with Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC),” the report said adding that the East-Coast DFC corridors as well as the eastern part of the East-West DFC corridors have to be developed on priority to provide access to coal mainly from Talacher to Ports dotting the eastern coastline. According to the estimation, energy requirements of India will annually increase to approximately 3000 billion units (BU) by 2030.

Orios Venture Partners (VP) on Monday had two of its managing partners, Anup Jain and Rajeev Suri, step down in back-to-back announcements on professionals networking platform LinkedIn. Jain and Suri are set out to launch a fund independently, sources in the know told ET. “Rajeev Suri who was heading investor relations and Anup Jain who was part of the investing team have departed. Rehan Yar Khan, the founding partner, continues to head fund investments along with a nine member team,” a spokesperson from Orios VP said in a statement. The Mumbai-based firm said it will continue to look to make eight to ten investments a year.

Iran and the United States will exchange prisoners on Monday after some USD 6 billion once frozen in South Korea reached Qatar, a key element of the planned swap, officials said. The planned exchange comes just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where Iran's hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi will speak.

Banks want telecommunication companies and social media platforms to share the surging cost of scams but warn too much focus on victim compensation will “create a honeypot for organised crime”.

Japan recently announced that it is considering a proposal to take away bank cards from those over 65 to take a stab at reducing financial scams that their older population is currently grappling with. In today’s rapidly-evolving digital landscape, it’s all too easy to underestimate the profound impact of cyber threats on our lives. Many of us operate under the assumption that we are safe and well-informed, immune to the dangers that seem distant and abstract. But it’s when these perils strike close to home that their seriousness truly comes to light. I’m not referring to another wave of a virus, but rather the insidious realm of Cyber Fraud.

Cuscal Limited, the end-to-end payments outfit owned by MasterCard, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and most of the big credit unions, is busy scheduling investor meetings ahead of its mooted ASX float.

Deloitte is set to cut more than 800 jobs in the UK in response to a slowdown in demand and an easing in the pace of workers choosing to leave, according to a source familiar with the matter.