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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian equity market closed with cautious positive momentum on Thursday, snapping a four-day losing streak, as Nifty 50 managed a marginal gain of 0.18% to settle at 26,033.75. The benchmark index traded in a narrow range of roughly 100 points, finding support near the day's low but facing resistance around 26,100, which is a key technical hurdle.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) prepares to deliver its policy decision on 5 December, market participants remain split on the central bank’s move this time. The policy comes in the backdrop of record-low inflation, surprisingly strong real GDP numbers, weakening nominal growth and rising external risks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian markets have already turned around from the worst period of dollar returns in over two decades, and 2026 will be an “exciting year" for domestic stocks, according to Morgan Stanley managing director Ridham Desai. In 2025 so far, the Nifty 50 and Sensex have risen 10% and 9%, respectively, hitting record highs, Desai said while speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investors are getting mixed messages on health of the U.S. economy, leaving stocks in limbo ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve rate decision.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Theatres are looking to 2026 for a turnaround after two uneven years. The coming year packs a rare concentration of star-heavy releases, with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Vijay and several others returning to the big screen.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Agriculture-solutions provider Coromandel International Ltd’s stock has risen 30% over the past year as investors warm to its push to structurally lift Ebitda margins and smoothen earnings. A ₹4,000–5,000 crore capex commitment over FY25–28 is central to this shift.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Paytm is reshaping its business through stake consolidation, a cleaner group structure, and an artificial intelligence (AI)-led push across payments and financial services. Early results show improving margins, stronger growth, and a clearer path to profitability.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a two-day visit to India on 4 December for the annual India-Russia Summit—his first trip to New Delhi since the start of the Ukraine war. The visit comes at a particularly sensitive moment for India’s foreign policy and energy security.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From the industrial belts of Gujarat to the outskirts of Bengaluru, factories are churning out solar panels by the millions, their glassy surfaces stacked and shipped across the country. Utility developers, homeowners and farmers are lapping them up, feeding the surge in India’s clean energy push.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The rupee breached 90 to the US dollar on Wednesday, marking a new low for India’s currency, which has steadily weakened over the year and is now the worst performer among major emerging- and advanced-market currencies. The rupee's slide (it has fallen more than 5.5% this year as of 2 December) has been driven largely by a trade impasse with the US and continuing foreign portfolio investor (FPI) outflows from Indian markets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The share of information technology (IT) services stocks in the BSE 30 Sensex in 2025 has fallen to a 18-year low of 11.3%, just better than the 8.8% in 2007, as rise of artificial intelligence tools and prospects of uncertain growth make investors jittery. This coincides with OpenAI’s launch in November 2022, which marked an inflection point in the country’s $283 billion sector as it upended the way businesses were run.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cement makers such as Nuvoco Vistas Corp., Birla Corporation and JK Lakshmi Cement are increasing their focus on premium products to lift margins as an alternative to price hikes in a push that analysts said would work for now but not in the long term as competition creeps into the premium segment. After the goods and services tax, or GST, rate on cement was rationalized in September, cement companies have refrained from raising prices to pass on the benefit of lower taxes to consumers, analysts said.

Is silver set to emerge from the shadow of gold as a precious metal? Although its price fell about 2% on Tuesday, it has been enjoying a bull run that makes this dip seem more like a pause for breath than the start of a correction. Longer trends underline this bullish sentiment. It has almost doubled this year, outpacing gold’s 60%-odd rise.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The board of India's stock market regulator will take up the most sweeping revision of regulations in decades spanning mutual funds, stock brokers and its own officials later this month, two people aware of the meeting's agenda said. The board will discuss bringing in new rules, updating outdated rules, and removing overlapping ones.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Startups are offering higher salaries, bigger bonuses and more employee stock options (Esops) at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year, but despite securing first-day slots too, they are struggling to attract top talent as campus hiring shifts from mass hiring to picking a few high-quality candidates amid an AI-led productivity boost.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The perception of safety in stock markets varies widely depending on the investor's risk tolerance, investment horizon, and market conditions. Safe investing often means managing risk through diversification, proper entry points, and a margin of safety rather than an absolute guarantee of no loss.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A sharp post-open shock quickly drained enthusiasm, sending the market lower in swift fashion. Disappointing macro data is likely to assert itself in the sessions ahead, tempering risk appetite.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: French spirits major Pernod Ricard India is sharpening its focus on premium alcohol, exiting the mass-market whisky segment even as it launches a new India-made brand aimed at consumers trading up. The company this week completed the sale of its Imperial Blue whisky, among India’s largest-selling mass brands, to Tilaknagar Industries.

The development comes amid growing concerns over the impact of the new trade policies on global markets and the U.S. economy.

The 27-country bloc faces 25 per cent import tariffs on steel and aluminium and cars and 'reciprocal' tariffs of 20 per cent from Wednesday for almost all other goods. President Trump's tariffs cover some 70 per cent of the EU's exports to the United States — worth in total 532 billion euros ($585 billion) last year — with likely duties on copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and timber still to come. When Trump hit steel and aluminium imports with a 25 percent tariff in March, the EU decided on «an eye for an eye» approach. «We will react in areas where it hurts the United States,» a senior EU official said. Officials have previously said the EU will target goods from politically important US states, including soybeans produced in Louisiana, the home of US Speaker Mike Johnson, who pushes Trump's agenda in Congress. The is happening even though, President Trump's one of the closest advisers billionaire Elon Musk told Italy League leader Matteo Salvini on Saturday that he hoped in the future the US and Europe could create «a very close, stronger partnership» and reach a «zero-tariff zone.» Musk spoke to Salvini in a video conference during the League's congress in Florence. Salvini is the leader of the far-right, anti-migrant League party and vice premier of the Italian conservative government led by Premier Giorgia Meloni.

White House to begin trade talks, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday as U.S. officials sought to defend sweeping new tariffs that have unleashed global turmoil. During an interview on ABC News' 'This Week,' U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett denied that the tariffs were part of a strategy by Trump to crash financial markets to pressure the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He said there were would be no «political coercion» of the central bank. In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump shared a video that suggested his tariffs aimed to hammer the stock market on purpose in a bid to force lower interest rates. In a separate interview on NBC News's Meet the Press, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the stock market drop and said there was «no reason» to anticipate a recession based on the tariffs. Trump jolted economies around the world after he announced broad tariffs on U.S. imports on Wednesday, triggering retaliatory levies from China and sparking fears of a globe trade war and recession.