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Lupin Ltd. rose 0.93 per cent to Rs 1413.25 at 12:04PM hours (IST) on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session.

ACC Ltd. fell 0.53 per cent to Rs 2240.8 at 11:54AM hours (IST) on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session.

By Leika Kihara

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies moved little on Thursday after clocking steep losses in the prior session, while the dollar fell slightly from a one-month high as strong U.S. retail sales data spurred more doubts over early rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

By Satoshi Sugiyama

Mint, Andrade, shares his perspective on the firm’s upcoming new fund offer (NFO)—the Old Bridge Focused Equity Fund—and provides valuable insights into his investment approach and strategy. With 27 years of experience in Indian capital markets, including a decade as chief information officer (CIO) at IDFC Asset Management, he now serves as CIO at Old Bridge Asset Management Company. Andrade, who recently established his own asset management company, says the firm concentrates on identifying businesses early into a cycle.

Day trading guide for today: Following weak global market sentiments on disappointing Chinese economic data and geopolitical tension in the Middle East, the Indian stock market fell on the second day in a row. Nifty 50 index registered the biggest intraday fall since 13th June 2022 due to the panic selling across the board led by banking stocks. The 50-stock index crashed 460 points and closed at a 21,571 level, BSE Sensex tanked 1,628 points and closed at a 71,500 level whereas the Bank Nifty index nosedived 2,060 points and finished at 46,064 mark.

Sensex cracked 1,628.01 points, or 2.23%, to end at 71,500.76, while the Nifty 50 ended 460.35 points, or 2.09%, lower at 21,571.95. Nifty 50 formed a reasonable negative candle on the daily chart with a long upper shadow. The huge opening downside gap remains partially filled.

Sensex nosedived 1,628 points on Wednesday, marking its biggest single-day slide in more than one-and-a-half years following an intense sell-off in banking, metal and oil shares. The Nifty tanked 460 points to settle at 21,571. Stocks that were in focus included names like HDFC Bank, which fell 8.16%, TV18 Broadcast, which rose 7.58%, and SAIL, whose shares declined 5% on Wednesday. Here's what Riyank Arora, Technical Analyst at Mehta Equities, recommends investors should do with these stocks when the market resumes trading today.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Following weak global market sentiments on disappointing Chinese economic data and geopolitical tension in the Middle East, Indian stock market fell on second day in a row. Nifty 50 index registered biggest intraday fall since 13th June 2022 due to the panic selling across the baord led by banking stocks.

Colliers International Group Inc., which says prime office values tumbled about 30% from their pre-Covid high in some of the nation’s major cities. “Given how deep prices have corrected, there are lots of bargain-hunting opportunities," said Jimmy Gu, a deputy managing director and co-head of capital markets and investment services at Colliers. “It all depends on buyers’ outlook for the economy." Grade-A offices in Shanghai and Beijing used to be sought after by global real estate funds, making them more attractive than those in New York and London.

Monetary policy in India must remain actively disinflationary despite the recent sharp fall in core inflation, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. «When inflation is still above 5.5%, rather close to 6%, our monetary policy has to remain actively disinflationary and it would be too premature to talk in terms of a pivot in our monetary policy,» Das said in an interview with Reuters. He however acknowledged the recent fall in core inflation, which strips out volatile food and fuel prices, and said it gives them the satisfaction that monetary policy is working but the target for the monetary policy committee remains the headline number. The apex bank chief said the global geo-political situation remains volatile and could impact economies around the world with food inflation particularly vulnerable to spikes on the back of disruption in global supply chains and other risks. Das said he expects January inflation to moderate and the trend has been moderating but unless inflation reaches 4% on a durable basis, the bank cannot get lulled into a complacency or think of changing its policy focus. Annual retail inflation rose 5.69% in December, the fastest pace in four months but core inflation dropped to a four-year low of 3.8% from around 4.1% in November. Das, whose term is ends in December, would be the longest serving RBI governor since the 1991 liberalisation. He has led the world's fifth largest economy since 2018, keeping inflation and the currency relatively stable through successive shocks including the failure of a large non-bank lender, Covid-19 and the Ukraine war. He reiterated that the RBI intervenes in the exchange rate market only to prevent undue

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