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Amid fluctuating market conditions, Bitcoin‘s price has dipped to $60,547, signaling a 1.74% decrease in the last 24 hours. This movement underpins ongoing volatility as traders and analysts closely monitor trends to update their Bitcoin price prediction.

Stock market today: After the announcement of Q4 results 2024, Infosys shares witnessed some selling pressure in the early morning session on Friday. Infosys share price today opened a gapdown at ₹1,385 apiece on NSE and went on to touch an intraday low of ₹1,378.75 per share within a few minutes of the stock market's opening bell. However, the Indian IT major witnessed buying interest at the lower levels and regained the ₹1,400 mark.

The spring homebuying season is off to a sluggish start as home shoppers contend with elevated mortgage rates and rising prices

Indian government bonds has met with a sudden trend reversal after persistently firm American economic data reduced visibility on rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, causing a surge in US bond yields and reducing the allure of emerging-market debts. Adding to the sudden reversal in foreign buying interest in bonds is the rise in crude oil prices over the past few weeks due to concerns of tighter supply and a recent flare-up in Middle East tensions. A higher trajectory for crude oil prices imparts uncertainty to the outlook on India's inflation and trade deficit.

Electricity is shaping up to be Wall Street’s next juicy investment space. The question facing financial advisors is how they intend to charge into it.

In contrast to the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada is running out of excuses to keep from acting as the proverbial deer in the headlights. The economy here is far weaker, fiscal policy is far less stimulative even with the spending largess in the federal budget, and there’s much more spare capacity being built up, particularly in the labour market.

ResiClub co-founder and editor-in-chief Lance Lambert discusses the U.S. housing affordability crisis on Making Money.

rupee logged a record closing low against the dollar on Thursday, but ended little changed as it was caught between equity outflows and a recovery in regional peers. The rupee ended at 83.5375, its weakest close on record, compared with its previous close of 83.5350.

Fabindia for a potential stake acquisition or outright purchase of the ethnic apparel business, the Hindu BusinessLine reported citing sources. The ongoing talks suggest that the acquisition may value Fabindia at an amount lower than the $2.5 billion initially estimated during the clothing company's failed initial public offering (IPO), the report added. Should the deal materialize, it could mark a significant move within the sector, potentially becoming one of the largest transactions following Aditya Birla Fashion Retail's acquisition of a controlling interest in TCNS Clothing last year.

GE (formerly General Electric) recently sold its iconic 60-acre Crotonville campus, established in 1956, for $22 million. This facility, once the heart of GE’s corporate culture, thrived during Jack Welch's tenure when managers yearned to network with top executives and immerse themselves in the company's culture. But following GE's recent segmentation, Crotonville's significance dwindled.

Rohit Srivastava, Founder, Strike Money Analytics & Indiacharts, says “will look for opportunities on the sell side as and when markets turn higher. The easy segment to target there is the weakest one, which has been financials, in terms of not performing that well on the upside. Of course, they have not fallen like the IT sector. But because the IT sector has already fallen a lot, it would not be the space to look for shorting opportunities right away. But in banking, once there is a bounce over the next one to two days, I will look for opportunities across the stocks based on what the setups are.” Is this recovery something that we should be excited about and believe that a floor has been made or is there still time to perhaps factor that in? Rohit Srivastava: This might just be a counter trend bounce which means it is just a retracement of the fall that we have seen over the last five days and possibly there could be more downside risk in the days ahead because what appears to have started as a sell-off in global equities on the back of rising bond yields, I do not think that trend is completely over. It makes me think that further pressure will build up in the days to come but we did get extremely oversold in a very short term and a one- to two-day bounce back is a good thing to relieve that very short-term pressure. Overall, this remains a sell-on-rise market and we will see lower levels in the days ahead.

Zomato Ltd. traded 0.74 per cent down at Rs 185.35 on Thursday at around 01:59PM (IST), while the benchmark BSE Sensex declined 93.19 points to 72850.49. As many as 2,743,929 shares changed hands on the counter with a total value of Rs 50.76 crore.

Page Industries Ltd. slipped 0.74 per cent to Rs 35431.5 in Thursday's trade as of 01:44PM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 35731.5 and low of Rs 35200.0 during the session. The return on equity (ROE) for the stock stood at 41.66 per cent. Traded volume on the counter stood at 01:44PM shares and turnover at Rs 1.3 crore around that time. The stock of Page Industries Ltd. quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 43599.0 and 52-week low prices of Rs 33100.0, respectively.

ICICI Lombard shares rose 5% to Rs 1736 on Thursday after the company reported a nearly 19% year-on-year (YoY) growth in PAT at Rs 520 crore in the quarter ended March as compared to Rs 437 crore in Q4FY23. The company reported a gross direct premium income (GDPI) of Rs 224,770 crore in FY24 compared to nearly Rs 2,100 crore in FY23, a growth of 17.8%, which was higher than the industry growth of 12.8%.

«So, all the market dynamics are good for a good growth even in the coming year. But with macroeconomic conditions, we never know where the market will turn,» says Nirupa Shankar, Joint MD, Brigade Group. This kind of growth that we have seen for the last couple of years has been nothing less of a dream for the real estate companies. But now there is that nervousness coming in, is the best over? Is the bubble going to burst soon? What is your take? We just to want to enjoy what has just happened in the last couple of years. Of course, it is a new year, so new goals and new targets. But the real estate segment is seeing decadal highs.

Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd. slipped 1.33 per cent to Rs 2665.0 in Thursday's trade as of 01:39PM (IST). It hit a high of Rs 2718.95 and low of Rs 2665.0 during the session. The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 2813.8 and a low of Rs 1520.3. The return on equity for the stock stood at 60.84 per cent. About 3,875 shares have changed hands on the counter so far.

Marico Ltd. gained 1.05 per cent to Rs 513.45 in Thursday's trade as of 01:18PM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 515.6 and low of Rs 495.25 during the session. The return on equity (ROE) for the stock stood at 34.66 per cent. Traded volume on the counter stood at 01:18PM shares and turnover at Rs 2.15 crore around that time. The stock of Marico Ltd. quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 595.0 and 52-week low prices of Rs 462.95, respectively.

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. traded at Rs 1183.45 on BSE at 01:13PM (IST) on Thursday, up 0.51 per cent from previous close. The scrip quoted a 52-week low price of Rs 896.85 and a high of Rs 1299.9.

Amid ongoing military conflict between Iran and Israel, financial markets globally have caught in a turmoil. Over the weekend, Iran launched a massive attack on Israel using hundreds of drones and missiles in what it called a response to a strike on its consulate in Syria. The geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have created jitters among investors who are now looking to stay away from riskier assets and taking refuge in gold due to its safe-haven appeal.

MphasiS Ltd. gained 2.03 per cent to Rs 2355.5 in Thursday's trade. It hit a high of Rs 2360.3 and low of Rs 2319.0 during the session. On the technical charts, the 200-DMA of the stock stood at Rs 2408.38, while the 50-DMA was at Rs 2531.52. If a stock trades above 50-DMA and 200-DMA, it usually means the immediate trend is upward. On the other hand, if the stock trades below 50-DMA and 200-DMA, it is considered a bearish trend and if trades between these averages, then it suggests the stock can go either way.

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