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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Delhi-based Shubhangi Sahal discovered that her recently retired father had been sold more than 20 insurance policies, many using forged signatures and incorrect contact details, the episode triggered a permanent shift in responsibility for her. Sahal found herself stepping into the role of financial manager for her parents.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There is a familiar storyline whenever gold hits a new high while silver lags. The script is predictable: gold has already moved, so silver is the catch-up trade.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This Republic Day, we should reflect on India’s embrace of the world.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The benchmark Nifty could see wild price swings when stock markets reopen on Tuesday, coinciding with the weekly expiry of index options. This comes amid divergent views on market direction in a truncated week—shortened by the Republic Day holiday on Monday—leading up to the Union budget on 1 February.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After two record years of fundraising, investor appetite for new listings could moderate, as abundant supply and external headwinds weigh on secondary markets. While declining to comment on possible budget measures, Anthony Heredia, managing director and chief executive officer of Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund, said that policy measures aimed at boosting foreign capital flows, either directly through tax incentives or indirectly, could help create economic momentum.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DLF Ltd’s stock closed 4% lower on Friday, also sliding to a new 52-week low of ₹586.65 during trading hours. The sharp drop in the December quarter (Q3FY26) pre-sales disappointed investors.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In taking over as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway earlier this month, Greg Abel faced questions about whether he’s ready to step out of Warren Buffett’s shadow. But the transition reminded some investors of another executive—Abel’s former boss—who for years was considered most likely to take the reins at one of the world’s best-known companies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Federal Reserve will almost certainly leave interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting this coming week, keeping its benchmark policy rate at 3.5% to 3.75%. Markets know it.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ticker is a weekly newsletter by Vijay L Bhambwani. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Dear reader, Happy Republic Day! Last week, I wrote that the near-term market outlook would be determined by the banking and financial sector stocks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Humankind has shown broad acceptance of three different kinds of currencies: widely-acceptable fiat currency (like the dollar or Indian rupee), extinct commodity-based currency (gold and silver coins, or even wheat bushels) and an emerging class of digital currency (such as stablecoins or central bank digital currencies or CBDCs). A fourth class of currency is being minted and popularized by US President Donald Trump: influence.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Market corrections usually expose valuation excesses. Stocks that are priced for perfection tend to correct sharply as earnings visibility weakens and risk appetite declines.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." The quote, often attributed to Lenin, aptly describes the first weeks of 2026. Over the last generation, several assumptions undergirded international relations and commerce.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India slipped to the sixth position on Mint’s emerging market tracker in December 2025, as weakness across multiple external indicators dragged its composite score lower despite continued strength in broader economic growth and manufacturing activity. This marked the worst performance since February 2025, when the same indicators emerged as weak spots.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India has backed calls for a balanced outcome on cotton at the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying issues such as domestic support, market access and development assistance need to be addressed together.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TACO may have saved the day, but like the storm hitting much of the country, markets could freeze up again. TACO, of course, is an acronym for Trump Always Chickens Out.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The positivity that investors felt at the start of 2026 has been replaced by negativity. The fact that the Nifty started the year at an all-time high has been forgotten.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. OTTAWA–Canada and the Trump administration are locked in a war of words over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to chart a new model for smaller powers to fight back against the U.S.’s aggressive use of its economic and military might. In the past week, Carney has resolved a trade dispute with America’s biggest strategic competitor, China, and delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland urging smaller powers to unite against economic coercion from the world’s great powers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equities ended the week battered and bruised, as sustained foreign portfolio investor (FPI) outflows, weakening earnings momentum and pre-budget jitters combined to drag benchmark indices sharply lower. With the Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex ending down about 2.5% over the week, India stood out as the worst-performing major market in this period.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Better late than never: One year into the second presidency of Donald Trump, the world has reached an inflection point, as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, made explicit in his speech at an economic summit in Davos. Having tried and failed to appease Trump’s imperialist bullying, middle powers such as his own country must and will instead “act together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu." Acting together, Carney said, will take the form of “variable geometries." Countries, whether traditional friends or foes of the United States, may form ad hoc coalitions to pursue specific interests, trade pacts to replace commercial links to the US that Trump has damaged or severed, cooperation in new or existing multilateral forums or even new military alliances.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. InterGlobe Aviation Ltd (IndiGo) reported a steep 78% year-on-year fall in net profit to ₹550 crore for the December quarter (Q3FY26), hit hard by severe operational disruption in early December that led to large-scale flight cancellations. As a result, net profit for the nine months ended December (9MFY26) has slumped 97%, weighed down by forex losses and a sharp rise in other cost items in the first half of the year.