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Why is it so frustrating to see a doctor these days—and can anything be done to make it easier? Despite years of efforts to improve efficiency and access, wait times to see a doctor have only gotten worse, amid a shortage of physicians in almost every specialty. One survey found the average time to secure a new-patient appointment is approaching one month in 15 of the largest cities in the U.S., and another survey found more than a third of Medicare patients are waiting more than a month to see a doctor. At least half of patients report experiencing “operational friction"—long hold times on the phone to reach a scheduler, difficulty getting a timely appointment and trouble accessing follow-up information, according to surveys from patient-experience firm Press Ganey.

Stock market today: Zomato share price hits lifetime high. Experts see IPL 2024 link India's debt market is poised to receive a significant influx of up to $40 billion in fresh capital, with JPMorgan Chase & Co slated to incorporate the nation's bonds into its indexes starting June. Presently, foreign investors hold only a small fraction of Indian debt.

The Federal Reserve keeps promising interest-rate cuts. Treasury yields, a key driver of mortgage rates and other borrowing costs, keep rising anyway. As of Monday, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S.

Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said it will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on its own in Punjab, and will nottie up with former-ally Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD), BJP state unit president Sunil Jakhar said. Jakhar said the move will benefit all sections of the society in Punjab. "The work done by the BJP for Punjab under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not hidden from anyone," he added.

Also read: SGB premature redemption dates for April 2024 – September 2024 announced, check details This year, already two Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) Scheme launched in 2016 have come up for final redemption. Let us see the tentative dates of SGB up for financial redemption in 2024.

NTPC, NHPC and NLC India will see their weights go up on the Nifty CPSE following a semi-annual rejig in the index, effective from Thursday, March 28. The adjustment will likely trigger passive cumulative inflows of $94 million according to estimates by Nuvama. A lion's share will be contributed by NTPC ($71 million) followed by NHPC and NLC India.

Congress charges, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is designed based on the best practice choice architecture and guarantees a minimum of 8 per cent return. «Atal Pension Yojana is designed based on best practice choice architecture to automatically continue the premium payment unless the subscriber opts out. This is a deliberate and beneficial feature which is in the best interest of the subscribers,» Sitharaman said in post on X. Instead of requiring people to decide each year to continue, they have to take a decision to discontinue, she said, adding, this makes many of them take the right decision and save for their retirement. Earlier in the day, the Congress attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the Atal Pension Yojana, alleging it is a «very poorly-designed scheme» and a «paper tiger» that needs officials to hoodwink and coerce people into participating in it.

Donald Trump needs cash, and starting today he will see a huge pile of shares he owns trading on the stock market. The question is, how soon can he tap his nearly $4 billion stake in social-media platform Truth Social? That is up to the board of Truth Social’s parent company. The group includes his son, three former members of his administration and the former congressman who took a leading role in defending the former president in his first impeachment trial.

₹1.19 in March 2020 to around ₹28.8 currently. This implies a return of almost 2337%. An investment of ₹1 lakh in this stock in March 2020 would have turned into over ₹24 lakh now.

About a week after the U.S. and other Western countries froze funding to a U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees called Unrwa in late January, its top official flew to the Arab Gulf, hoping wealthy Arab monarchies would save the organization at a time when it is the main provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza.

₹692 crore), as per South China Morning Post (SCMP). Despite the brand's success, the younger Zhang grew up in modest surroundings in Pingjiang County, Hunan province in China. He would believe his family was in financial difficulty.

₹ 1 lakh per 10gm. That is approximately 50% higher than today’s level. While I don’t know whether this target will be met or not, I am certain that the way investing in gold is being approached now (and also in the days and weeks to come), is probably going to be sub-optimal.

Stock market today: Zomato share price has been in an uptrend for the last one year. After bottoming out at around ₹50 apiece around a year ago, Zomato share price has remained an ideal 'buy on dips' stock for stock market investors. Zomato share price today opened upside and went on to touch an intraday high of ₹183.40 per share level on NSE, logging over 250 percent rise in the last one year.

Investors looking to ride the artificial-intelligence wave have turned their eyes to a sleepier corner of the market—companies that own and operate power plants. Is the run-up justified? AI hype has helped lift Vistra stock 85% year to date. That falls short of Nvidia’s eye-watering 92% surge, but is far greater than the 12% lift that Microsoft has seen over that time.

(Reuters) — European shares opened marginally lower on Tuesday, pulled down by miners and as investors gauged mixed messages from U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers that clouded the outlook for easing monetary policy conditions.

Investing.com-- Bitcoin price rose on Tuesday, remaining above key levels and in sight of record highs amid anticipation of the upcoming halving event, although signs of capital outflows and sluggish on-chain activity suggested that the token’s stellar rally could be slowing. 

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian budget carrier SpiceJet said on Tuesday it agreed with Export Development Canada (EDC) to settle liabilities worth around $91 million, allowing it to take ownership of 13 of 15 Bombardier (OTC:BDRBF) Q400 aircraft financed by the Canadian trade finance agency.

Three weeks ago, see here, we found for Bitcoin (BTC/USD), based on our Elliott Wave Principle (EWP) analyses,

In a stock exchange notice on Monday (25 March), the £681m investment trust said around 79,829,958 shares were validly tendered, representing approximately 88% of the shares in issue.  After considering the rounding down of each valid applicant's participation to the nearest whole share, FEML will buy a total 13,531,881 shares under the tender offer. Fidelity Emerging Markets launches tender offer for up to 15% of share capital The tender price, which has been calculated as 98% of net asset value as at 22 March, was 740.3p per share.  «Having narrowed from a discount of c.15% at...

₹30 lakh in total relationship value or ₹10 lakh as average quarterly balance in their accounts. But to treat the Burgundy clients at par with non-Burgundy ones and to remove a lot of the benefits within three to four months is absurd," said Tejas Ghongadi, co-founder, The Points Code, a platform that advises credit card users on how to optimize reward points. Starting 20 April, Magnus Burgundy users will no longer get ‘buy-one-get-one tickets’ on bookmyshow—a movie ticket booking app, while concierge services are discontinued and spend categories of insurance, fuel and gold will neither earn rewards nor be counted for the annual spending threshold.

₹2,360. Given reasonable prices, the brokerage has also increased Metropolis Healthcare's fair value to ₹1,600, keeping its Reduce rating. Following the brokerage's upgrade, Dr Lal Pathlabs share price surged over 5% on Tuesday's session, while Metropolis Healthcare share price rose 2.5%.