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Barclays PLC is boosting its price targets on most Canadian bank stocks, saying expectations are so low that fiscal third-quarter results may bring some upside surprises.

luxury sports car maker Porsche AG expects around 80 per cent of its sales in India to come from fully electrified vehicles by 2030 and is lining up three such new vehicles to be introduced here early next year, a senior company official said on Tuesday. The company, which sells a range of luxury sports cars and SUVs priced between Rs 88 lakh and Rs 4.26 crore, is targeting GenZ customers, start-up entrepreneurs and women as it seeks to strengthen brand presence in India, Porsche AG Executive Board Member for Sales and Marketing Detlev von Platen told PTI in an interview. Porsche, however, has no plans in the short to medium term to locally assemble its vehicles in India, as it is focusing on establishing and strengthening the brand in India. «We announced that we want to be net carbon neutral by 2030. So, coming from a car manufacturer, which is more sporty-oriented, it was interesting to hear (that).

Coinbase has made some changes to its debt buyback program following lackluster demand. 

India, Mumbai, 22nd August 2023: Metropolis Foundation, the CSR arm of Metropolis Healthcare, today announced that it has adopted 1000 TB patients in Mumbai, as part of their Preventive Healthcare CSR program This is the second cycle of the CSR programme, in which Metropolis Foundation will provide nutritional support to 1000 consented TB patients residing at ‘L’ ward (Kurla) in Mumbai district. The first cycle was launched in December 2022 for 650 TB patients, which was then expanded to 702 patients across L ward for six and three months, respectively. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai has a high load of Tuberculosis (TB) patients with few of the 24 wards with high TB burden.

₹2,410 per quintal in Maharashtra and MP for buffer stock, said the Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday. To curb the rising price of onion ahead of festive season, the vegetable is also sold at a subsidised rate of ₹25/kg for consumers in different regions, he added. The essential component of Indians' kitchen, onion, witnessed a sudden rise in price ahead of the festival season.

Prabhudas Lilladher has trimmed its 12-month Nifty target to 20,735 from 21,430 valuing the index at a 12 per cent discount to 10-year average PE (price to earnings ratio) of 20.7 times, and said that the coming months will be a real test for the economy and markets due to the EL Nino impact on inflation as food inflation and a feeble possibility of interest rate cut. The brokerage firm has trimmed the Nifty target primarily because of a cut in earnings and expects markets to consolidate ahead of the 2024 elections.

₹500, provide 100 units of free electricity, old pension schemes if it comes to power in the state, said the party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday. He also said that the grand old party, if comes to power, will conduct caste census in Madhya Pradesh. “I promise that when Congress will come into power farmers will be in debt relief.

Also Read: PSU Banks Q1 results update: PNB, SBI lead as lenders on a strong footing, double the bottomline Credit growth momentum is expected to continue to remain healthy primarily led by retail and SME segments. “We believe banks will continue to focus on deposit mobilization, keeping competitive intensity high. Deposit mobilization remains a key lever to support banks’ superior credit growth.

Meta Platforms on Tuesday asked a court in Norway to stop a fine that the country's data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching user privacy, in a case that could have wider European implications. Since Aug. 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a practice common to Big Tech. The company is asking for a temporary injunction against the order, which imposes a daily fine through to Nov.

«So as far as Karnataka Bank is concerned there was a conscious call made in a couple of quarters before that some of this high cost deposits as well as some not so good yielding loans were retired and this was a very conscious call whereby we actually calibrated this a little bit,» says Srikrishnan H, Karnataka Bank.Your loan growth this quarter has been relatively slower than the overall banking sector credit growth which you have observed. Talk to us about what has been the reason behind this slower growth and is it a conscious calibration which you are undertaking and it is likely to reverse going forward?So as far as Karnataka Bank is concerned there was a conscious call made in a couple of quarters before that some of this high cost deposits as well as some not so good yielding loans were retired and this was a very conscious call whereby we actually calibrated this a little bit. But the following two quarters which is the last quarter Q1 FY24 and the next quarter which is currently underway in both on an annualised basis we have hit a target growth of 10% and that is something which has been the guidance given to the stakeholders. Also so it is not as if we are really under but we will pick up soon because there are two three engines that are going to be firing because one is the branch engine, the second is a sales engine that we are wrapping around all of our branches with DSAs and sales staff and that would be particularly aimed at gold loan, agri as well as personal loans. And the third one is a digital part so we have digitised at least about 30 to 40 customer journeys and that in fact the flagship product, the hero product there, is our consumer loan journey, where it is near 100% digital.

Devbhumi Dwarka police have dismantled a factory located in Punjab that was producing alcoholic ayurvedic syrup exclusively intended for the Gujarat market. As per a TOI report, the factory had already shipped approximately two lakh bottles of this syrup to Gujarat in last one year. During the police operation, a substantial amount of raw material, sufficient to produce an additional two lakh bottles of the syrup, was seized from the factory.

Google Chrome users. This government agency operates under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. In a recent advisory, CERT-In highlighted critical vulnerabilities within Google Chrome, prompting an urgent call for users to promptly update their web browsers.

Taliban took over, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday, despite a «general amnesty» for old enemies. The mission said in a report it had recorded at least 218 extrajudicial killings with links to the Taliban from their takeover of Afghanistan in mid-2021 up to June. «In most instances, individuals were detained by de facto security forces, often briefly, before being killed,» the U.N.

In August 2021, one sector which had “ buy and strong buy” written all over it was IT or more commonly called software sector. Today, a number of them have “hold” recommendations by analysts.

CarTrade Tech share price rallied more than 6% on Tuesday, with the stock hitting an intraday high of ₹518.00 apiece on the BSE. The gains in CarTrade Tech shares came after analysts maintained their positive view on the company’s acquisition of Sobek Auto India Private Limited, which includes OLX classifieds platform as well as OLX Autos C2B transactions business.

Reliance Industries (RIL) traded volatile in the morning trade on BSE on Tuesday, August 22 as investors fix their eyes on the company's 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, August 28 at 2:00 pm. The stock opened flat at ₹2,518.25 and dipped nearly by a per cent before reversing losses and rising 0.8 per cent in early trade. Around 10:40 am, the stock was up 0.33 per cent at ₹2,526.60 on BSE.

Adani Power have risen 15% in three sessions and are poised for another 10% upside from here riding on the current momentum but any fresh move in the stock should only be made on declines for a favourable risk-to-reward ratio, experts tell ETMarkets. Notwithstanding an 8.1% stake sale to the US-based investment firm GQG and other investors in a $1.1 billion deal last week, the stock has displayed significant momentum since hitting a 52-week low of Rs 132.40 on the NSE on February 28 as a fallout of the Hindenburg report. The stock has since then given multibagger returns of 145%. Despite market upheavals over the past one month where the 50-stock Nifty has delivered a negative return of 1.42%, this Adani stock has rallied more than 37%. Adani Power shares are currently trading above their 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) and Monday's move has taken the stock into an overbought zone.

Bajaj Finance, Macquarie maintained an outperform rating on HDFC Bank, Nomura retained a buy rating on Bharat Forge and it has a buy rating on CarTrade. We have collated a list of recommendations from top brokerage firms from ETNow and other sources: BofA on Bajaj Finance: Buy| Target Rs 8750 BofA Securities maintained a buy rating on Bajaj Finance with a target price of Rs 8750. The company has multiple levers to support growth. The focus is on diversification.

Also read: Fake ITC documents: Noida police issues non-bailable warrant against 10 people for defrauding govt of ₹15000 crore Pankaj Singh on Monday said that he would join the ongoing protest of villagers outside the Noida Authority's office if their demands go unanswered. On Monday the protesters barricaded his camp officer under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Parishad. The protest was led by local farmer leader Sukhbir Pehlwan.

Dabur India with a target price of Rs 604. The current market price of Dabur India is Rs 567.4.

Stocks that were in focus include names like PNB Housing Finance, which rose 3.41%, Trident, which gained 11.42%, and Tanla Platforms, whose shares declined 5.50% on Monday.Here's what Riches Vanara, Technical And Derivatives Analyst at StoxBox, recommends investors should do with these stocks when the market resumes trading today:PNB Housing Finance — BuyThe stock is coming out of a rounding bottom pattern on weekly charts and has relatively outperformed the head index week-on-week. The price action and momentum indicators like MACD and 14-period RSI are also showing a bullish trend. The stock is a buy candidate at CMP and around 645 for targets of 680 and 710 with a stop below 618.Trident — BuyA breakout from a descending channel can be visible on a weekly time frame.