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U.S. stocks are drifting in mixed trading

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: Texas Instruments, Mattel rise; General Dynamics, Teledyne fall

A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait has seen an explosion in the distance, marking what may be a new attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels through the crucial waterway for international trade

The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden

Subtlety's stock has been down for a while. It has tanked especially during this election time. Nothing showcases this slide as unsubtly as people wearing their beliefs on their sleeve.

spot bitcoin and ether exchange traded funds aim to start trading on April 30, three asset managers that provide the products said on Wednesday. The financial hub is set to be Asia's first to accept cryptocurrency products as a mainstream investment tool, and the products have also received official regulatory approval from the Securities and Futures Commission, according to the Hong Kong markets watchdog's website.

WTO's 164 members, 125 have agreed on the text of the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFDA). They are convinced it will help them to attract more FDI for growth, and want to annex it to WTO's main rules. 89 of these 125 members are developing countries, 27 LDCs. IFDA focuses on increasing transparency and reducing bureaucracy to make the investment process easier, but contains no prescriptions on investment policy, market access, investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement. Among other things, IFDA addresses:

The Federal Trade Commission on April 23 banned employers from using noncompete clauses, which the agency said suppress wages, stall new business formation and stifle companies from hiring the workers they need to grow. The measure, approved by the agency’s Democratic majority on a 3-2 vote, prohibits companies from enforcing existing noncompete agreements on anyone other than senior executives. It also bans employers from imposing new noncompete contracts on senior executives in the future.

FPIs continue buying cyclicals like capital goods, auto stocks while selling defensives in April Kamath also reposted a message from Sensibull, an options trading platform owned by Zerodha, aimed at assisting traders in grasping the concept of spreads. Here is a brief overview of its post - One significant benefit of employing these strategies lies in the containment of losses. Irrespective of market volatility or unforeseen circumstances like circuit breakers or geopolitical unrest, losses are restricted to a predetermined level.

ALSO READ: PBKS vs GT IPL 2024: Shubman Gill says he doesn’t want to think too much about captaincy while batting 1) Rashid Khan (24 years and 221 days) 2) Shubman Gill (24 years and 229 days) 3) Virat Kohli (25 years and 182 days) 4) Sanju Samson (25 years and 335 days) 5) Piyush Chawla (26 years and 108 days) In the ongoing IPL season, Gill has scored 298 runs in 9 matches, at an average of 42.57 and a strike rate of 146.79. He has also scored two half-centuries; his highest score is an unbeaten 89. Shubman Gill has scored 3,094 runs in 100 IPL matches, at an average of 38.12 and a strike rate of 135.14.

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A prominent Canadian technology investor joined the chorus of Canadian businesses criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to raise the capital-gains tax, arguing it will cause capital flight from the country.

Hong Kong is gearing up to launch its much-anticipated spot  Bitcoin  and  Ethereum  exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the end of April. 

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended the use of active and passive infrastructure sharing among telecom service licensees, in a bid to promote optimum resource utilisation. The regulator Wednesday also recommended inter-band spectrum sharing between service providers in a licensed service area (LSA), along with suggesting exploring the possibility of allowing service providers to access globally harmonised spectrum bands assigned to government agencies or other non-telecom entities through authorised shared access (ASA) technique-based spectrum-sharing. The authority also recommended conditions for spectrum sharing, trading and leasing, which has been permitted under the new Telecommunications Act, 2023.

banks to exercise more vigilance when it comes to preventing the misuse of traditional banking channels in enabling unauthorised trading in foreign exchange. The central bank said in a notification on Wednesday that it has come across instances of unauthorised entities offering foreign exchange trading facilities to individuals with promises of disproportionate and exorbitant returns. Upon investigation, the RBI found that in order to facilitate such unauthorized foreign exchange trading, these entities have engaged local agents who then open accounts at different bank branches to collect money for margins, investments, and charges.

₹5.2 crore in a click. The 52-year-old Jayanagar business, new to stock market trading, is a victim of sophisticated cybercrime.

₹5 crore. The four others were Sujoy Das, Nitish Sikand, Krishna Cheemalapati and Suresh Jakhotiya.

Japan is benefiting from India's growth story. Japanese companies and investors are showing heightened interest in India finds an anchor report by Nomura. Japan's FDI in India has been gaining a growing presence, and Japanese investments in foreign equities (as of end-2022) showed India at the top of the list for developing countries although trade ties between Japan and India are currently weak. Japanese individual investors are also investing more aggressively in Indian stocks by way of investment trusts India at the top of the list among emerging market economies, the report said. With the Indian economy maintaining high growth, Japanese corporations are showing more interest regarding investment in India, according to Nomura. “In the ranking of countries seen as promising for the medium term in the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)'s FY23 Survey on Overseas Business Operations by Japanese Manufacturing Companies, India took the top spot for a second consecutive year, even as China fell to number three” the report, an collaborative effort by India’s and Japan’s economists and equity strategists.

The S&P BSE Sensex rose over 100 points, while the Nifty50 closed above 22,400 levels.

Nifty Bank closed in the green for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday which helped the stock to reclaim 48,000-48,100. The Nifty Bank rose 218 points to close at 48,189, while the Nifty50 rose 34 points to close at 22,402.

Hong Kong’s stock market used to be the world’s top equity fundraising venue. Not anymore: In the number one spot as recently as 2019, it didn’t even break the top five in 2023 according to Dealogic. But the market is up 6% this week, its best performance this year, in the wake of proposed regulatory changes.